[Scape]

All news is biased but how it this biased:

Ezra Levant:Uncircumcised penis

At the 1:14 mark

[Proculation]

Scape Scape:

All news is biased but how it this biased:

Ezra Levant:Uncircumcised penis

At the 1:14 mark

I listen to a right wing radio that was crushed by the CRTC. Now they are on XM radio because the CRTC doesn't have the control of the satellite waves.

For one example you give, there are thousands in the other side. We understand but you have to admit it too. The media are left-wing leaning. That's it.

[Proculation]

Like I said, even the ombudswoman admitted that Radio-Canada was biased and that they used their media power to hurt our only right wing party in Quebec. That's documented, it's true. You can't argue with that.

[Bodah]

Proculation Proculation:

Like I said, even the ombudswoman admitted that Radio-Canada was biased and that they used their media power to hurt our only right wing party in Quebec. That's documented, it's true. You can't argue with that.

I can believe it.

[kenmore]

CBC is hardly biased... common!

[2Cdo]

kenmore kenmore:

CBC is hardly biased... common!

What makes me sad is that you believe the CBC is unbiased and provides even coverage from the entire political spectrum, once again proving you are wrong.

[Scape]

I saw this a while ago:

The Real News it has promise:

$1:

We all have interests. We recognize that bias will affect the elements in a story we choose to highlight, the facts we consider important and the sources we decide to trust. To be human is to have bias. The answer is transparency; The Real News will create forums for questioning, debating and criticizing our work.

I think the funding of the media makes it prone to bias. All state based media and corporate based media are biased by default and have to actively work against it. The right wing radio in the US is extremely biased to the point it makes TASS look timid and that biased is based on niche funding. It must pander to a base and that base want one tune to hear. The fact that in a nation of over 300 million the top radio show get 20 shows that the vast majority of the radio market is tuned out. Variety is NOT encouraged when the distributors all operate under one tent.

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[Proculation]

The thing Scape is that the right wing radio ACKNOWLEDGES they are biased. They say right away that their talk radio is right wing.

If the CBC acknowledges they are left leaning, no problem. Well, in fact there is a problem: they are a PUBLIC FUNDED organization. Cut the public funds and I have no problem with them being left leaning.

[Proculation]

In Quebec City, they have the best rates of audience for the radio. The radio is right leaning. Even I, from Montreal, listen the shows on the Internet. You know why ? Because it's not mainstream ideas. People wants NON-mainstream ideas and thinking. Simple logic: if the right leaning media are non-mainstream, that's because the mainstream media are left leaning. People like those shows because they are TIRED of the "pensée unique". You have to THINK like that because we want you to THINK like that. Wishful thinking if you ask me but people are not stupid. They will listen and watch shows they think they represent them. Only sheeps like you take whatever the mainstream media tell you. We are just more "thinkers", we like to argument and have both sides of a situation.

Sorry but you are really a sheep.

[Scape]

Proculation Proculation:

The thing Scape is that the right wing radio ACKNOWLEDGES they are biased. They say right away that their talk radio is right wing.

If the CBC acknowledges they are left leaning, no problem. Well, in fact there is a problem: they are a PUBLIC FUNDED organization. Cut the public funds and I have no problem with them being left leaning.

The biased being looked into here isn't left/right but bias in the form of an old boys network being formed and then always going to that well for fact checking. That would be the issue for the public broadcaster that they need to verify. If this was in terms of religion it would be if all mainstream media was Catholic and all radio talk shows were Protestant.

[kenmore]

2Cdo 2Cdo:

kenmore kenmore:

CBC is hardly biased... common!

What makes me sad is that you believe the CBC is unbiased and provides even coverage from the entire political spectrum, once again proving you are wrong.

It was a joke.... and.... I am never wrong..

[Arrow]

bootlegga bootlegga:

Compared to some other media sources, they aren't that bad. Some of their reporters do show some bias, but I think overall the CBC isn't as biased as Fox, the Western Standard or the Star. I still think CBC is better than Global.

You wanna talk about damning with faint praise?

bootlegga bootlegga:

Of course, none of those groups are funded by the government...

Nor covers the country with anything like the coverage that the CBC does.

bootlegga bootlegga:

but given that everyone relies almost 100% on foreign programming

Proudly so.

bootlegga bootlegga:

(from the US or somewhere else), I still think the CBC is necessary. CTV and Global are basically branch plants of Fox, NBC, ABC, and CBS.

Were it not for the CRTC, the private broadcasters wouldn't provide even the modicum of Canadian programming that they do. Just not cost-effective, donchaknow?

And this strikes to the heart of being Canadian: we just aren't cost-effective as a country. Maybe we should sell-out while the Loonie's high!

[EyeBrock]

If we are funding a national media outlet with our collective taxes, it should at least try and be more objective.
The CBC is very obviously left-leaning.

It's the tv and radio version of the Toronto Star but the Star is a private company. We can choose to fund it or not fund it. We have no such choice with the CBC.

[Arrow]

EyeBrock EyeBrock:

And I have never watched or listened to any of their shows. But I have watched CBC and CTV news.

I'll stick with my view that OUR (Canadian not Yank) media is left leaning from what I've seen and listened to and the CBC and CTV are what most Canadians have access to, not all those weird shows you mention.

The simple fact is that the political pundits that Canadian rightwing find so appealing are Yank. They like them because they're not from here. The Conservative faction in this country finds being Canadian (and all that it entails) distasteful.

Better to be yet another state than another State.

[Proculation]

EyeBrock EyeBrock:

If we are funding a national media outlet with our collective taxes, it should at least try and be more objective.
The CBC is very obviously left-leaning.

It's the tv and radio version of the Toronto Star but the Star is a private company. We can choose to fund it or not fund it. We have no such choice with the CBC.

Exactly. To draw a parallel, we all know that the Wall Street Journal has a conservative editorial. We all know that the New York Times has a liberal editorial. I can't speak of english media but in Quebec, we know who's separatist editorialists and who's federalist (even if they tend to say they are somehow unbiased, we know however). The same thing should be said about TV. You are left leaning ? Good but say it. Same thing for the right, the separatists, the federalists. Just say it.