The CBC news reporter Genvieve Tomney is pretty hot. Apart from that and Coronation Street, there isn't much on CBC
CBC - What is it good for?
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Actually, the head honchos at the CBC continue to deny such a bias exists. The CBC supremos regularly write letters to the National Post and other newspapers, challenging the assertion that there is a liberal bias.Is the CBC liberal, sure it is. Is that a bias - sure it is. But they're smart enough to recognize it, smart enough to put it forward, smart enough to call it what it is...
You're just jealous!He will soon return to his home state to marry her...........................of course we are talking about his state of mind, where the skys are not blue in his world.
One last point from me -- I didn't propose abolishing the CBC. I said CBC Television should no longer be funded through taxpayers' dollars.
The Toronto Star and NOW Magazine both have a left-wing bias, and they manage to succeed without having governments run them. If the CBC is as popular as some of you claim, then it should also be successful.
The Toronto Star and NOW Magazine both have a left-wing bias, and they manage to succeed without having governments run them. If the CBC is as popular as some of you claim, then it should also be successful.
I believe the Feds spend roughly 240 billion/year, of which the CBC gets perhaps 1 billion to broadcast across this vast barren land. So that would work out to 1/240 of the federal portion of your income tax, in other words, pretty much nothing. It's easier to tear things down than to build them up, so I'm in favour of keeping our good old CBC.
Some how people here think that "private" broadcasters don't get public funding for their programs like the CBC does. Yes they do as do many American productions who decide to shoot here in Canada. So your public dollar is spread wider than you think. Many private broadcasters dump on CBC because it gets a bigger piece of the pie but they don't refuse to accept public funds themselves. The claim also that people don't watch CBC isn't backed up by numbers as some CBC shows beat out even American programs in the same time slot. As others have pointed out CBC is mandated to fill many duties that private broadcasters would never do. CBC is easy to whip and frankly that is good when people complain and let CBC know about it. However getting rid of CBC only means more funds would be grabbed by "private' broadcasters who have no mandate to follow. Now I don't like the policies of the Bank of Canada can we dump that or the Post Office. If you disagree with the military actions do they get booted from funding.
Ahem...that's *Julie* Nesrallah. Or as I prefer to call her, "The Future Mrs. ducttape".
For the first time in a long time I had a chance to listen to My-Lady-of-the-Voluminous-Hair on Tempo (or as she says it, Tem-Po. It melts my heart when she enunciates so well). Oh that voice! It's gotten me so aroused and inspired that I'm going to write a Beethoven-themed limerick in her honour -- a piece of poetry that will sweep her off her feet.
I listen to some of the CBC podcasts from time to time. Ideas is particularly good. Their other hour long shows, like the current, or as it happens, are hit and miss, but sometimes have some really good segments. I like the podcasts because if a segment is boring you can just skip over it to the next one--much better radio!CBC radio is a piece of shit compared to NPR, you can tell they're strapped for cash by the cheap phone-in gardening, appliance repair, wine discussion and closet organizing shows. Even while 9/11 was happening they didn't stray from their usual crap programming for several hours.
We were talking about the CBC, not about the military.Shut it down.
Save the money.
Retire the debt.
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We were talking about the CBC, not about the military.
The Communist Broadcorping Castration is what I was talking about.
If every single person there died of a mysterious disease tonight they would not be missed tomorrow. Why should taxpayers be forced to pay for that crap through taxation theft. If the farkin lefties and nutbar artists think its that important then surely they can support that drivel with their own money.
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I do support it with my own money. I pay a phenomenal amount of tax to the government every year, and I say it's a good use of my tax dollars.The Communist Broadcorping Castration is what I was talking about.
If every single person there died of a mysterious disease tonight they would not be missed tomorrow. Why should taxpayers be forced to pay for that crap through taxation theft. If the farkin lefties and nutbar artists think its that important then surely they can support that drivel with their own money.
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...nefits-from-battering-the-cbc/article1570549/
..."Whatever might be going on, we should all be clear about one thing – Canada would depreciate as a country if the CBC dwindled into a fringe broadcaster, something like PBS in the United States. All that whining and heckling about CBC’s $1-billion budget amounts to a misrepresentation of CBC’s role in Canada. CBC-TV is a public/private hybrid, earning about 40 per cent of its revenue from commercials. It offers multiple services in two languages on TV and radio. As for the allegations of Liberal bias, they are ridiculous. As Rick Salutin pointed out the other day, any viewer of the CBC-TV news these days sees an elaborate attempt to reflect the views of the right.
The CBC has made many mistakes. Sometimes it admits them. And there is nothing unusual about a public broadcaster being in conflict with the government of the day. The BBC had fierce battles with the Blair government. And one clear thing has emerged from the current controversy over the CBC – the impression given by its haters that it is an anomaly. Public, state-funded broadcasting is no such thing. It is what democracies have, and cherish. The airwaves are owned by us, the public, and public broadcasting has a perfect, logical right to exist.
Public broadcasting should show us the best of our own storytelling, news and entertainment, and do those tasks that private broadcasters balk at. To many Canadians, CBC-TV and radio have traditionally represented an oasis of good taste and common sense in a media world gone mad with celebrity coverage and other forms of mindless frivolity."...
..."Whatever might be going on, we should all be clear about one thing – Canada would depreciate as a country if the CBC dwindled into a fringe broadcaster, something like PBS in the United States. All that whining and heckling about CBC’s $1-billion budget amounts to a misrepresentation of CBC’s role in Canada. CBC-TV is a public/private hybrid, earning about 40 per cent of its revenue from commercials. It offers multiple services in two languages on TV and radio. As for the allegations of Liberal bias, they are ridiculous. As Rick Salutin pointed out the other day, any viewer of the CBC-TV news these days sees an elaborate attempt to reflect the views of the right.
The CBC has made many mistakes. Sometimes it admits them. And there is nothing unusual about a public broadcaster being in conflict with the government of the day. The BBC had fierce battles with the Blair government. And one clear thing has emerged from the current controversy over the CBC – the impression given by its haters that it is an anomaly. Public, state-funded broadcasting is no such thing. It is what democracies have, and cherish. The airwaves are owned by us, the public, and public broadcasting has a perfect, logical right to exist.
Public broadcasting should show us the best of our own storytelling, news and entertainment, and do those tasks that private broadcasters balk at. To many Canadians, CBC-TV and radio have traditionally represented an oasis of good taste and common sense in a media world gone mad with celebrity coverage and other forms of mindless frivolity."...
You are not the only one who pays a phenominal amount of tax each year but thats not the point.I do support it with my own money. I pay a phenomenal amount of tax to the government every year, and I say it's a good use of my tax dollars.
I say those that want it should directly support it as your share of tax money is lumped with the share they steal from me each year. I have no choice as I support it through forced taxation. There is a difference, you know that but won't admit it.
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So are you objecting to the government forcing you to pay for something you don't personally use or are you mainly objecting to the fact that you just don't like the CBC's programming? The government charges us for all sorts of things we don't directly use or even want to use but, one way or another, those expenditures are deemed beneficial to Canadians in general. If you were still living in the UK, would you also want to abolish the BBC? What about federal/provincial/municipal funding for universal health care, public libraries, public transit, public schools, arts & culture etc? Are you suggesting the user should pay the full costs for all those benefits as well?You are not the only one who pays a phenominal amount of tax each year but thats not the point.
I say those that want it should directly support it as your share of tax money is lumped with the share they steal from me each year. I have no choice as I support it through forced taxation. There is a difference, you know that but won't admit it.
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Other than Dragons Den I do not know of any programming that I would be interested in watching on the CBC.
There are parts of the country that only gets CBC. The corporation is the only broadcaster that gives a national identity, especially internationally and we need good international help, particularly in light of recent events.
The CBC has been a vital part of building Canada's awareness of itself....when you have a country this big ( especially when most of us are a stone's throw from the u.s. border) a national tv and especially radio service plays a large role in national unity and identity. Not to mention that until recently, it was pretty well the only electronic media available in the more remote areas. The programming is intelligent, enlightening, fun and the fact that the radio has no commercials is especially appreciated. CBC forever!... no i have never worked there and for the commie plot conjuring leftist haters out there, remember Don fucking Cherry is a big star on CBC and Peter Mansbridge will probably retire to the Senate thanks to Harper some day. Did the CBC try and ignore the Liberal sponsorship scandal? Not at all. They covered it in depth, which buried the Liberals.
