Defund the CBC

[Jlabute]

^^^ That's right, the CBC strived and begged for their government funded sticker.

[liisgo]

CBC is too embarrassed to acknowledge their own affiliation with trudeau's new Liberalism. What a Hoot, typical cowards all in the name of politic's.

[serpentongue]

Sometimes the truth hurts

[The Green Barbarian]

Mr. Musk has come through and put the "government-funded" label on CBC, and they're not happy.
How unhappy are they? They deactivated my comment!

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/cbc-gov ... -1.6812591

And get this, the story is posted under "Science".

The CBC is a Crown corporation, wholly owned by the state but operated at arm's length from government.

CBC News is governed by policies laid out in its Journalistic Standards and Practices, which states, "We are independent of all lobbies and of all political and economic influence... Public interest guides all our decisions."

Bwahhh haaa ahaaaaaaaaaa

[nucksRnum1]

Trudeau and CBC make an excellent post. Will Pierre remove a provincial branch in Quebec where conservatives are desperate to get ridings and votes? Or is this idiotic idea simply for english speaking media?

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/t ... d158&ei=15

[featfan]

Isn't Elon part Canadian or does turdeau forget that part saying American billionaire?

[The Green Barbarian]

Trudeau and CBC make an excellent post.

And let's hope they both are soon toast.

[The Green Barbarian]

Isn't Elon part Canadian or does turdeau forget that part saying American billionaire?

His mother was born in Saskatchewan. Elon was born in South Africa. But for brains Justin would never get that.

Question - if the CBC is impartial and non-biased, why does our idiot PM have to make a statement about what Twitter is doing? This has nothing to do with the Liberals or the disgusting Liberal government. So freaking stupid.

[The Green Barbarian]

Trudeau and CBC make an excellent post. Will Pierre remove a provincial branch in Quebec where conservatives are desperate to get ridings and votes? Or is this idiotic idea simply for english speaking media?

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/t ... d158&ei=15

“I think it says a lot about the Conservative Party of Canada. They’re choosing to constantly attack independent media organizations, journalists who are working hard to keep Canadians informed and support our democracy.”

Which "independent media organization" is Justin talking about?

[The Green Barbarian]

CBC/Radio-Canada says it is “pausing” its use of Twitter, a day after its main account was labelled "government-funded media" by the social media platform.

In a tweet announcing the pause, the public broadcaster says its journalism is impartial and independent and to suggest otherwise is untrue.

CBC has not tweeted from its main account since last week, when the new label pushed for by Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre was applied.

Twitter's policies say governments have varying degrees of editorial involvement with accounts labelled as government-funded, but a Sunday statement from CBC media relations director Leon Mar says CBC does not meet those criteria.

CBC is publicly funded through a parliamentary appropriation that is voted upon by all MPs, and its editorial independence is protected in law in the Broadcasting Act.

Twitter responded to multiple requests for comment about why the label was applied and whether it would be removed or changed with an auto-generated email bearing a poop emoji.

https://www.castanet.net/news/Canada/42 ... of-Twitter

Aw...poor whittle CBC got their fewling hurt by big bad Elon Musk so they are taking their ball and going home....

[the truth]

great news https://www.castanet.net/news/Canada/42 ... of-Twitter

[The Green Barbarian]

Not to be out-stupided by Justin, Jagmeet jumps into the fray as well with his own nonsensical rant. I just love it, CBC claims to be "independent", and yet when called out on their bias, the very politicians these CBC fools show massive bias to jump up to defend them, literally proving how biased the CBC is. You just can't make this crap up.

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/s ... a26a&ei=28

[featfan]

And at trudeau's presser where he was talking about Billionaire Canadian Musk, Billionaire Swedish president of Ericsson Borje Ekholm is standing beside him and looked surprised at what Justin said.

[Babba_not_Gump]

CBC pausing their account. Remind you a bit of Bud Light also having a hissy fit ?

[The Green Barbarian]

Jesse Kline: CBC offended to learn it is funded by the government

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is so concerned with teaching Canadians how to distinguish fact from fiction online, his government has spent millions promoting digital media literacy . Yet when Twitter branded the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation with a “Government-funded Media” label — a statement that is undoubtedly true — the prime minister was incensed, and immediately tried to blame the Conservatives for attempting to “attack” and delegitimize “independent media organizations.”

Of course, there is nothing “independent” about a media outlet that receives over $1.2 billion a year in government funds. Suggesting otherwise is disingenuous at best.

The controversy stems from Twitter’s push to label state-affiliated accounts, including government-funded media outlets, in an apparent bid to give people the information they need to judge whether they’re being fed government propaganda.

The problem of state actors spreading disinformation through social media is one that has been taken extremely seriously by western governments and media in recent years. Yet public broadcasters threw a collective hissy fit when asked to be transparent about their own funding models.

Last week in the United States, both NPR and PBS announced they would stop using the social media platform due to the new classifications. In Britain, the BBC also made a big stink about being branded as “government-funded,” and successfully lobbied Twitter to change its label to “publicly funded,” since it relies on a TV tax, rather than direct subsidies.

The whole brouhaha caused many to wonder why our own public broadcaster had managed to escape being called out for what it is, so Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre rightly called on Twitter CEO Elon Musk to apply the same standard to Canadian media.

After Twitter did exactly that on Sunday, Trudeau accused the Tories of “trying to attack a foundational Canadian institution.” And the CBC announced it is “pausing” its use of the social network, which it accused of calling its editorial independence into question.

According to a Canadian Press report , the CBC “has drawn a distinction between ‘government’ and ‘public’ funding because of the fact that the money it receives is granted through a vote made in Parliament.”

Twitter does make a distinction between “government-funded media,” of which “the government provides some or all of the outlet’s funding,” and “publicly-funded media,” which “receive funding from license fees, individual contributions, public financing and commercial financing.”

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/j ... 6c5ca&ei=7