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[–] Ceedoestrees 38 points 2 days ago (2 children)

When trying to get the public to vote against their own interests, like in the case of free and fair news media, first sabotage the media, then claim they're not doing their jobs. Cripple a horse so we think we have to shoot it.

People should ask themselves when they started hating the CBC and look into who owned it and what policies and interests were guiding their coverage.

Like honestly, it's such an obvious play but it keeps fucking working.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

The CBC is a sad catastrophe. The world and financial model in media is completely different but their mandate hasn't changed. It's not 2005 anymore. Harper did nothing to help, and Trudeau has been a complete failure here. Further, the Liberal policies on the media failed and in hindsight, we can see accelerated the collapse. Now half the country thinks it's all Trudeau funded propaganda and they have a point, since his policies actually pay to keep the remnants of the old world mainstream press in business. In practice this is enriching shareholders in Postmedia as the last drops of value are extracted from its miserable corpse, and providing funds to Bell who repurposes the money as they desperately try to recover from 2 decades of mismanagement.

I can only imagine what PP will do since we live in a world where policies and platforms are a sure fire way to lose an election, but not in my wildest fantasies do I foresee a reimagining of our public broadcaster by his government. What could possibly remain by 2030? To me, it's a lost cause so I'll focus my time and effort elsewhere.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (3 children)

To be fair the CBC is really shit in terms of content especially compared to what radio-canada outputs. The CBC is much more clickbaity and sensionalist while radio-canada is more neutral and facts based

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

You mean… CBC Radio Canada?

What Radio Canada are you talking about?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

Yes that one. They French and English versions are night and day

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

But compared to the other online news media cbc is consistently better than those.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Exactly, the bar is low but I still appreciate what we have.

[–] Ceedoestrees 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You just proved my point without reading it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah I'm just slow

[–] fourish 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

So many loud uneducated buffoons.

I’ve always understood that you never refer to the Prime Minister by only their name, that’s just rude and lacks any class. It wasn’t “Justin” or “Trudeau”, it was Prime Minister Trudeau or Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

The cons are really the party of the uneducated and no manners. They’ll get in for a term, fuck it up and get tossed out. How it always works.

[–] eightpix 4 points 1 day ago

Except Harper. He got in with a minority. Fucked around a little, prorogued parliament under threat of a coalition that would have shifted him into the minority, won that election with a majority, then fucked around even more for 5 years.

Then, he got voted out.

Pwah-lie-every was Harper's protégé. Expect every shenanigan there is.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Wouldn't it be weird if at least one party didn't fuck up and get tossed out every time.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

fuck up and get tossed out every time.

It'd be great if the party that fucks up the hardest didn't over-react to trivial stuff in the hopes of garnering enough hate for the wrong party that idiots will vote out the boneheads and elect the actual criminals.

But here we are, and that's what's gonna happen.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Wouldn't it be great if there were no political parties at all? No jockeying for power, no backroom deals, no "donor dinners"?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The problem is setting up a system where leaders can not be influenced by business and can not stack the deck to have an advantage after they leave office. Both things that no politician would ever implement.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Banning party whips would be a good start

[–] DMCMNFIBFFF 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The yellow threw me off a little—it made me think of the national Post—but this page is better. 😁🙂

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm not familiar with them either but I'll be watching for their coverage now.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

The Tyee are consistently excellent.