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Originally Posted by The One and Only...
You forget that the CBC now must be slanted toward government, for they do not want to lose funding.
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During the APEC summit in Vancouver a few years ago, the CBC did such an outstanding job of reporting not only the official activities of the meeting, but also the possible alleged role of the Prime Minister's Office in ordering the pepper spraying of demonstrators protesting the event, that the Liberals tried to introduce legislation in 1998 to allow the government to fire the management of the CBC if it disapproved of their work.
Clearly, you don't live in Canada, or you would know that the CBC is held to a higher standard for objective journalism than most private news-gathering agencies. In its charter, there are clear and unequivocal directives that state the CBC 'is fully committed to maintaining accuracy, integrity and fairness in its journalism', and that its duty is 'to provide consistent, high-quality information upon which ALL citizens may rely'. Any complaints of biased news reporting on the corporation's part can be submitted to the office of the CBC Ombudsman, who independently must investigate such cases.
Because of this mandate, CBC television stations must, and do, show news stories of interest to people in a particular region, thus forcing the other local outlets to cover the same stories. In this way, the CBC contributes to keeping the citizenry informed not just about global issues, but also about local issues.