CBC is a crown corporations. WE, canadians, own it. It is OURS and it is INDEPENDANT JOURNALISM. Crown corporations are wholly owned federal or provincial organizations that are structured like private or independent companies. They include enterprises such as the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), VIA Rail, Canada Post and the Bank of Canada; as well as various provincial electric utilities. Crown corporations have greater freedom from direct political control than government departments.
PP do not understand the difference between publicly funded and ‘state’ funded. The government transfers Canadian taxpayer money to the CBC which operates separately from government. The government does not control the CBC. This simple distinction is beyond his limited intellect.
CBC is PUBLICLY funded!! Therefore, yes the funds are funnelled through the govt, but not govt state media. We will leave that to fox propaganda news and post media that is owned by the USA ultra right wing.
Postmedia is owned by Hedge fund billionaires allied with Trump and pushing MAGA propaganda.
SHARE FAR AND WIDE. Canadian here. I am requesting those watching from around the world to join our boycott of American products and travel to the US. We can protect ourselves and our democracies. We can see what is happening in the US. We have the power of our wallets. Our children depend on our actions to secure their futures. To ensure democracies stand. I am the resistance. You are the resistance. We, the people of the world, are the resistance. When we stand together, we stand stronger. We outnumber them. Thank you for reading this post. Please pass the message along in your communities. Glory to Ukraine 🇺🇦 Canada will remain Canada 🇨🇦 the true north strong and FREE. Elbows Up!!!
What you’re proposing is restricting free speech, and I’m not okay with that! Making media be more open about their ownership, funding, etc. is worthwhile, but as long as they’re not trafficking in hate speech or other illegal activities, they should be allowed to share their views no matter how much you or I disagree with them.
Then there should a disclaimer at the beginning of every singe article about Canada stating that the article is owned by a U.S. corporation and that their opinions are not necessarily the opinions of Canadians.
Rupert Murdoch, the Kotch brothers and their other foreign billionaire friends do not have any right to acquire all of the Canadian media outlets they can get their hands on in order to influence Canadians.
Really talking about Chatham Asset Management and PostMedia (a subsidiary), that own almost 80-90% of print media (written news and periodicals, including almost all rural papers and online content). Even now, most people I speak to barely know about either, and it’s reach is way beyond the listed periodicals.
Is this as big a deal as it sounds? Kind of. Because the CEO determined they were “insufficiently conservative”, he appointed Kevin Libin to coordinate all of the organizations under their umbrella to provide “reliably conservative media.” Consider what that phrase even means - it’s not perspective, it’s an introduction of bias. This isn’t something that really exists anywhere else in Canadian News ecosystem, even in the far right, and is one part of the media ecosystem’s challenges.
However, they also get the benefit of being “center” between lunatics like Rebel News and True North and the CBC; this gives both them and further right rags more legitimacy than earned by virtue of the total absence of a Canadian far left media ecosystem, hence the attacks on the CBC itself (which does contain editorial, but is general one of the most fact based and investigative journalism driven media organizations in Canada). It also allows them to “create a consensus” by essentially just agreeing with themselves.
Even the Toronto Star, one of the “most left” credible independent media organizations, is now under (separate) conservative ownership.
Frankly, if you’re a subsidiary, you should be forced to wear every one of your ownership’s emblem “Chatham/PostMedia presents” in double font every time you throw up your Vancouver Sun or Calgary Herald.
You don’t have to like or dislike any of these organizations, but the total lack of transparency while structuring this discussion as central consensus is about as disingenuous as you can get.
Things like Ground News (factuality and partisan bias news screeners) help somewhat, but require some literacy in terms of statistics and data. It’s worth learning tools like these (or tracking it yourself across everything you read, and looking at a wide berth of the various perspectives in Canada, which is extremely laborious especially in an age where we can barely get people to click past headlines, hence the specific name drop for Ground News which does a lot of this for people).
The main takeaway: The centralized role of coordinating a wide breadth of media organizations and incrementally corralling them towards one narrative, something essentially unique in the space no one else has, and with total lack of transparency, is the biggest distinction between them and everyone else.
an informed population capable of asking questions and forming their own opinions is antithetical to the owner class’s agenda. everyone who consumes any mainstream media (and everyone who doesn’t) should read the book Propaganda by eddie bernays, the “father of public relations.” bernays wrote in favor of propaganda as a good and necessary thing for a functioning society. but he spells it all out, how to control the opinions of the public. goebbels utilized bernays’s methods, and you can see the results
they’re doing it again. it’s a conspiracy, but there’s nothing “theory” about it. if nothing else whatsoever, you should be questioning and scrutinizing everything you read from every source. yes, including lemmy. but it’s probably too late to stop anything set in motion years ago. it’s not “if” blood in the streets will happen, but “when”
I am a lifelong (since the '60s) CBC listener. I have become truly disappointed and have almost ceased to listen because I believe that CBC no longer represents all Canadians - just those in the highest political seats of our fine land. I am not convinced that CBC should continue to be 100% publicly funded (they were not always) - nor do I agree with the use of the funds that they are currently getting (bonuses when they are running a deficit). Too top heavy and no longer present a center position or less biased account of Canada. Sooooo discouraging and I don’t think that a lot of Canadians understand this. I am a proud Canadian and will continue respect and engage politely with all Canadians regardless of their rally cries.
That’s because Billionaires hate tarrifs, if you don’t count the Tech-Bros trying to crash the economy. They do want to annex Canada and will push out MAGA propaganda.
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !canada@lemmy.ca
Some Canadian independent media to look at instead of the postmedia shills:
Other non US news:
Reuters is Canadian!
This should be a tshirt
This should be common knowledge.
Thats how we get there.
Everyone should find out political candidates polticial donors and make them into nascar tshirts so we can all inform each other
SHARE FAR AND WIDE. Canadian here. I am requesting those watching from around the world to join our boycott of American products and travel to the US. We can protect ourselves and our democracies. We can see what is happening in the US. We have the power of our wallets. Our children depend on our actions to secure their futures. To ensure democracies stand. I am the resistance. You are the resistance. We, the people of the world, are the resistance. When we stand together, we stand stronger. We outnumber them. Thank you for reading this post. Please pass the message along in your communities. Glory to Ukraine 🇺🇦 Canada will remain Canada 🇨🇦 the true north strong and FREE. Elbows Up!!!
Be careful with all medias. Especially the ones with profit motives/agendas.
These should be shut down
What you’re proposing is restricting free speech, and I’m not okay with that! Making media be more open about their ownership, funding, etc. is worthwhile, but as long as they’re not trafficking in hate speech or other illegal activities, they should be allowed to share their views no matter how much you or I disagree with them.
Then there should a disclaimer at the beginning of every singe article about Canada stating that the article is owned by a U.S. corporation and that their opinions are not necessarily the opinions of Canadians.
Rupert Murdoch, the Kotch brothers and their other foreign billionaire friends do not have any right to acquire all of the Canadian media outlets they can get their hands on in order to influence Canadians.
Actually, they do. I’d love to see some laws restricting foreign ownership of media, but as it stands, they do have the right.
Really talking about Chatham Asset Management and PostMedia (a subsidiary), that own almost 80-90% of print media (written news and periodicals, including almost all rural papers and online content). Even now, most people I speak to barely know about either, and it’s reach is way beyond the listed periodicals.
Is this as big a deal as it sounds? Kind of. Because the CEO determined they were “insufficiently conservative”, he appointed Kevin Libin to coordinate all of the organizations under their umbrella to provide “reliably conservative media.” Consider what that phrase even means - it’s not perspective, it’s an introduction of bias. This isn’t something that really exists anywhere else in Canadian News ecosystem, even in the far right, and is one part of the media ecosystem’s challenges.
However, they also get the benefit of being “center” between lunatics like Rebel News and True North and the CBC; this gives both them and further right rags more legitimacy than earned by virtue of the total absence of a Canadian far left media ecosystem, hence the attacks on the CBC itself (which does contain editorial, but is general one of the most fact based and investigative journalism driven media organizations in Canada). It also allows them to “create a consensus” by essentially just agreeing with themselves.
Even the Toronto Star, one of the “most left” credible independent media organizations, is now under (separate) conservative ownership.
Frankly, if you’re a subsidiary, you should be forced to wear every one of your ownership’s emblem “Chatham/PostMedia presents” in double font every time you throw up your Vancouver Sun or Calgary Herald.
You don’t have to like or dislike any of these organizations, but the total lack of transparency while structuring this discussion as central consensus is about as disingenuous as you can get.
Things like Ground News (factuality and partisan bias news screeners) help somewhat, but require some literacy in terms of statistics and data. It’s worth learning tools like these (or tracking it yourself across everything you read, and looking at a wide berth of the various perspectives in Canada, which is extremely laborious especially in an age where we can barely get people to click past headlines, hence the specific name drop for Ground News which does a lot of this for people).
The main takeaway: The centralized role of coordinating a wide breadth of media organizations and incrementally corralling them towards one narrative, something essentially unique in the space no one else has, and with total lack of transparency, is the biggest distinction between them and everyone else.
an informed population capable of asking questions and forming their own opinions is antithetical to the owner class’s agenda. everyone who consumes any mainstream media (and everyone who doesn’t) should read the book Propaganda by eddie bernays, the “father of public relations.” bernays wrote in favor of propaganda as a good and necessary thing for a functioning society. but he spells it all out, how to control the opinions of the public. goebbels utilized bernays’s methods, and you can see the results
they’re doing it again. it’s a conspiracy, but there’s nothing “theory” about it. if nothing else whatsoever, you should be questioning and scrutinizing everything you read from every source. yes, including lemmy. but it’s probably too late to stop anything set in motion years ago. it’s not “if” blood in the streets will happen, but “when”
I am a lifelong (since the '60s) CBC listener. I have become truly disappointed and have almost ceased to listen because I believe that CBC no longer represents all Canadians - just those in the highest political seats of our fine land. I am not convinced that CBC should continue to be 100% publicly funded (they were not always) - nor do I agree with the use of the funds that they are currently getting (bonuses when they are running a deficit). Too top heavy and no longer present a center position or less biased account of Canada. Sooooo discouraging and I don’t think that a lot of Canadians understand this. I am a proud Canadian and will continue respect and engage politely with all Canadians regardless of their rally cries.
@AlexSavard I read the #MontréalGazette and the #NationalPost, and I can assure you that they are strongly opposed to the #TrumpTariffs, notwithstanding their ownership.
That’s because Billionaires hate tarrifs, if you don’t count the Tech-Bros trying to crash the economy. They do want to annex Canada and will push out MAGA propaganda.
@AlexSavard No, the editorial line of those newspapers is also opposed to annexation. Would you be interested in some links?
At the end of the day, newspapers that take positions against 90% of their readership are not even good as a business proposition.