Every so often the conservatives in the country called Canada start screaming that the CBC is left wing. The most recent case involved a Ekos President Frank Graves. This is a polling company that does polling for the show Power & Politics. It was disclosed by panel mate Kory Teneycke, himself a self confessed conservative, that Graves gave money to Liberal candidates in far greater amounts that to Conservatives running for office. The key being he said nothing about it pretended to be neutral but wasn't! Since Graves had know formal ties with the Liberal Party ,membership or contractual arrangement, the accusation hinged on Frank not being able to separate business and private life. In other words you either accept that he is an honest broker or you don’t. The Tory’s didn't.
That is where it starts. The CBC uses undisclosed liberals and it is unfair. The doors is now open for al the usual accusations. Did you know that everyone that works for the CBC is a liberal and that’s not fair! This doesn't mean that our conservative friends want more conservatives on the payroll, they wouldn’t mind, they just want to de-fund the CBC. The CBC, I will admit is geared to a liberal audience, no doubt owning to the fact that most Canadians are liberal or left. Yes conservative friend add up the poll numbers less than 40% of Canadians vote conservative and I'm giving you some of the Bloc who are probably at least economically conservative. Non news programming trends might be not be described as Liberal or Conservative. Sure David Suzuki is liberal but his show is the Nature of Things I don’t know how to construe that as liberal, conservatives I’ll need your help their. Little Mosque on the Prairie, I don’t watch often it’s not a bad show , their hearts in the right place. Yes I’ll call that show liberal, a program about how to get along with people that are different, or for my conservative friends might describe ”it how to give away our culture a bit at a time”.
The news is just the news if you can detect a slant from the National then your looking way to hard. The opinion shows are the usual three people on a panel a Liberal, Conservative and a New Democrat. It is the same whether they are pundits or members of parliament or journalists. That does bug me a bit because usually one of the three is defending a point or action that is not defensible and they look like hacks rather than the educated experienced people they normally are.
The final point I wish to drag kicking into the argument is that Conservatives do not believe in Public Broadcasting. It is essentially government in competition with private interests, violating the sanctity of the free market. The CBC is a Big Government waste of taxes and by the way does not represent my voice either so I pay for something I don’t like or use. Even if the voice of the CBC became all Husky ,Strong and Conservative they would still hate it, though I imagine make great use of it.
I didn't really prove that there is no bias have I? Sometimes bias is nothing more than not wanting to see or hear something you don't like or agree with. It is easier to claim that the media is biased than to confront the possibility that your position is in error. That goes for Left Liberal and Right.
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