With competition from streaming services, a quickly-changing broadcast and news landscape, and diminished trust in the public broadcaster, the future of the CBC is as murky as ever.
Tara Henley, a former CBC producer who now runs a popular Substack, said the CBC lost trust when Canadians started to see it as overly politicized.
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre made defunding the CBC a centrepiece of his leadership campaign, sparking raucous chants in support of the idea at his rallies across the country.
Substance free trash.
>“The most pressing issue for on-the-ground work at CBC where all of the editorial decisions are actually made is groupthink. And to that end, I do think there’s some merit to the criticism that CBC has a left-leaning bias, I think this dynamic, in my opinion, is both top-down from leadership and bottom-up from a workforce,” said Henley.
So where’s the evidence of this group think? It’s one thing to say it exists, it’s another to show that it does.
>Henley argued that a public broadcaster is an important institution but that the CBC hasn’t lived up to its role and, consequently, the public has lost trust in it.
CBC regularly ranks as the most trusted media source in the country.
>Menzies said executives at the CBC have to face up to the criticism, rather than assume it’s all conducted in bad faith.
>“You have to deal with that. You can’t just pretend it doesn’t exist,” said Menzies. “But they seem so convinced of their own righteousness right now that I don’t see any evidence that it’s going to happen.”
Perhaps if one doesn’t want people to think one’s criticisms are in bad faith, one should provide supporting evidence for accusations.
I’m not even a CBC stan. I’m a socialist and CBC is way, way too friendly to landlords for my liking. But this article is 100% garbage.