Just turned on CBC News Network Live and they were talking about how “by far” Melania’s hat is getting the most attention of the day.
I’m so tired of our media. Trump issued at least 26 executive orders, Elon did the nazi salute multiple times, Trump commented on tariffs… but we have to talk about this hat!
For what it’s worth, Wikipedia’s news section seems highly factual and not editorialized. It shouldn’t be this hard to get news though.
I’m really disappointed by CBC radio’s interviews. I tried tuning in a couple of times recently.
The House was just interviewing ministers and bureaucrats about policy. They didn’t talk to academics or independent researchers about the effect of the policy. It felt like I was listening to a press release.
All of the coverage of Trudeau’s resignation (that I heard) asked people affiliated with the Conservatives or Liberals what they thought. They interviewed Gerald Butts ffs. Then they interviewed some Harper-era minister. The interviews went exactly as you’d expect.
I really wish they’d interview independent experts. Everything I hear seems to be from people who have vested interests.
I don’t think it’s a plot, I think it’s just half-assed journalism.
That’s why I like The Conversation, it primarily is by academics and experts. I just wish it was more front page news focused.
I agree with you strongly on that. A lot of stuff feels like it’s optimizing for low cost over quality.
CBC has slid very far to the right in the past year. Loads of anti-union, anti-electrification, pro-landlord, pro-privatization stuff. I’m not sure if they are trying to butter up the incoming government or if they just realized that rage-bait gets more clicks.
I was pretty disappointed on the Canada Post strike coverage all being about how much this is hurting businesses and the holidays.
On the radio side, I think part of it is lazy/scared journalism. Rather than learning enough about a topic to find credible experts, journalists are doing the bOtH sIdEs thing, or worse, just using “experts” suggested in press releases.
I think it’s appalling how we get bombarded by American News but get so little from Canada.
Has Canada tried turning into racist Nazis?
Wait until the next election.
It’s trying, yes. But it hasn’t gained as much traction.
Those who have are close followers of the Conservative party and PP.
a little bit but their slackers.
But their slackers what?
doh
100% agree. The quality of Canadian news is at an all time low, and now we get to talk about the hat worn by wife of the orange Mussolini.
I don’t have cable, but when I went to my father’s house he had it on whatever the CTV new channel is, and the coverage was just as dreadful.
That’s capitalism, baby! Say goodbye to reporting on things that actually impact people, we need clicks and attention to drive that sweet ad revenue, even if it means letting journalistic integrity slide while we report on the attire of the new fascist regime instead of their policy.
CBC should not be as beholden to capital as commercial news is, which is why this is particularly disappointing and also why the Conservatives promise to destroy it.
Lots of places cropped out Elon arm yesterday and just called it a “questionable arm gesture”.
I’m just going to keep venting my thoughts in random comments here.
I saw a project the other day that used ChatGPT to rate and filter news for you, I thought that sounded cool so I tried it myself. ChatGPT was not able to filter news to recent dates or understand that “domestic” does not mean US.
I think ChatGPT is a large risk to news because it would be so easy to silently bias the results, plus it’s based by RAG on Bing results from the US and trained on primarily US sources.
There are a lot of people reporting instagram and facebook censoring topics, most of our news like the Toronto Star are now owned by mill/billionares.
It’s harder than ever to find unbiased news.
I personally like The Conversation but they do deep coverage not broad coverage.
I like the economist too, but they don’t do Canadian news/politics very well. I appreciate that they’re open about their biases though.
They’re doing actual news now, today is just stressful and eventful.
I’ve been finding media coverage all over bad, but the CBC I expect high standards from. CBC Radio still has good quality news, but TV news just hurts to watch these days.
I feel like TV is inherently a shit medium for news.
Get ready for their radio and print journalism to go down the shitter as well when PP defunds the CBC 🫠
Tv has weird incentives. They want more connections, and they need to fill the all the time-slots. They think if it’s too boring or high brow you’ll hit a button and watch something else, and they’re deathly afraid of the “off air” banners they used to show.
Plus CBC has to look fair to an increasingly unreasonable right wing to try and appear unbiased, but that’s introducing more bias than ever.
The falls of the History channel and Discovery were in hindsight the harbingers of the end of TV news.
Thank you for the wikipedia link. We need to keep an eye on Trumpy boy.
