Why are all of the news postings in here from government funded source, and no independent media?
The “government funded source” thing is Conservatives forgetting that Canada isn’t like America: our ‘government funded’ stuff has an arms-length position like the CRTC and the RCMP. And while the former forgets its mandate, we all (should) remember that none of them serve at the express pleasure of any particular prime minister
… even the ones who want to run the country and can’t take some hard questions from a media they don’t control.
Almost all news in Canada is funded by government grants. Journalism isn’t that profitable, y’know.
Personally, I mostly post from CBC because I find it to be a regularly published source of reliable news. If you like others, post others and see how they’re received.
For you to call government funded news a reliable source shows that you can’t recognize mass deception and societal delusion.
Funny, when the Conservatives were in power, it was “liberal media that needs it’s funding cut.” Now that the Liberals are in power, it’s “government media being used to deceive the masses and delude society.”
Which is it?
Both of those statements stand on their own, one does not cancel the other, so there is no contradiction.
In fact, one statement holds true with the other.
Perhaps, but then is certainly an inconsistency or at least imprecision when calling it a problem caused by government funding. At any time in the past, any government could have eliminated the CBC, but every one of them, regardless of ideology, has continued to fund them.
From my point of view, the problem is not the funding source, but the nature and quality of coverage. Personally, I’m not aware of any news organization, regardless of funding source, is doing a great job of consistently covering stories or applying pressure to all politicians, government departments, corporations, lobby groups and other news organizations the way I think they should be.
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And I stand by what I said. I see nothing in that link to suggest that TNC does anything that I would call journalism. All they seem to be doing is publishing articles and links to articles that they had no active role in creating.
In other words, yet another link aggregator, albeit one whose links are chosen by the site owners rather than the site members. There isn’t even any way to discuss or respond to the articles beyond heading out to the privacy nightmares called Facebook and Twitter!
If you want us to see important stories and other viewpoints, you are going to have to start linking to specific stories, not landing pages and content that isn’t even complete without following a link to yet another site.
