CBC Consistently Replacing Truth with Opinion

Dennis Prager has an interesting expression: "First tell the truth, then share your opinion."

I firmly believe that failure to adhere to this simple premise is the root cause of many of our problems today.

Case in point: This morning I listened for awhile to the CBC's Sunday Edition radio program, featuring Obama's Canadian shill, Michael Enright. A greater embarrassment to the once proud profession of journalism there has never been. He interviewed at length a professor from the University of Syracuse. This fellow had some interesting things to say but so much of it could have been pulled from the chorus sheets of the Radical Left Daily Kos hatesite.

Among other things, he stated that the average American's real income is much less than it was 30 years ago. Is that true? I don't intuitively believe it. But the CBC, being the CBC, there was no alternate viewpoint to challenge anything this fellow said.

So if you're a regular CBC listener/viewer and rarely/never partake in any alternative viewpoints then much of the foundation of your worldview is built upon very skewed opinions, not truth. In times past the betrayal of truth with opinion was called "effective propaganda". It often precluded the occurrence of very bad things.

The CBC's Diversity of Opinion

In this brilliant editorial Lorne Gunter explains why there's as much diversity of opinion at Canada's CBC as there is at the Karl Marx Widget Factory #6. In other words, there's not. It's long overdue to end all public subsidies to the CBC and let it become a specialty channel, supported by those who want to listen to it.

The Slow Death of the CBC

The stated mandate of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) is to provide a Canadian voice to the media, be it on TV, on the Radio, and on the Internet. Because Canada is made up of over 33 Million people, one would naturally conclude that this publicly supported media giant would be as representative of this population as possible. On this front the CBC is an abject and complete F-A-I-L-U-R-E ! ! !

Over a long period the CBC has essentially devolved into the Toronto Broadcasting Corporation of the Left and Extreme Left. Its news division serves as the proxy PR agents of the federal Liberal and NDP parties.

The fact that no one at the network, save for Rex Murphy periodically, says anything that resonates with Center Right or Far Right Canadians gives the CBC an "F" for both objectivity and meeting its mandate.

I rarely tune into the network anymore but when I do, it simply confirms that nothing has changed, even though promises were made late last year that "they were listening" and "changes would be coming". I've formally complained twice in recent months but it's pointless as the executives at the CBC are absolutely deaf to any criticisms or even mild suggestions.

The recent $65 Million shortfall at the CBC is discussed on SDA here. Plus, Charles Adler discussed the same earlier today with Beryl Wajsman. You can listen to it here, starting at 7:00. Absolutely delicious ear candy!!!

Promoting Balanced Views and Free Speech in Canada

Over the past 2 months I've listened to a larger variety of talk radio in the U.S. One thing that many down there are convinced of is that Academia (primary school to university) and most of the MSM are completely infested with 95%+ Leftists. Not just Mildly Left or sort of Left, but Extreme Left.

I suspect they are right. Anyone who thinks that this hasn't had an enormous effect on brainwashing countless people over the past 40 years toward the very perverted value system of the Extreme Left is deluding themselves.

It got me thinking about the situation in Canada. Our CBC is on the Extreme Left. CTV and Global are a bit different but mostly seems pro-Liberal Party. All of the newspapers except the National Post seem Mildly Left to Extreme Left.

It's difficult to change private sector institutions other than to stop supporting them. But the CBC *should be* much easier to change because they're paid for by our tax dollars.

Once the U.S. election is over I would love to start a grassroots campaign to write the head of CBC News and see what changes he has effected based on his promise to do so after the Mallick affair. My guess is that to date it has been zero to none. So then the CBC Ombudsman needs to be contacted en masse until the promised change occurs.

This could be connected with a petition to the Conservative Party demanding that such changes to the CBC be made and the Hate Speech Provisions of the HRCs be scrapped. Once they do so, those of us pledging donations to their party will carry forth as promised. Until then, not a cent.

To me this sounds like minimal time & energy from each supporter for maximum gain. Clearly we need a larger, more effective way to dramatically change Canadian public opinion. Put another way, for the first time in at least 40 years Canadians will be presented with a balanced set of views and can then make up their own minds. Much like I've been able to do with some Canadians, albeit one person at a time.

P.S. I wonder if Ezra Levant, Mark Steyn, and Jonathan Kay would be willing to spread the word? Goodness knows that North America will need more balanced views than ever before once the Extreme Leftists in an Obamanation implement the Unfairness Doctrine and likely effect a number of other things to kill free speech that they disagree with.

Heather Mallick: Absolute Coward!

She can dish it out but cannot take any criticism, not a tiny weeny bit of it. Pathetic!

Full-sized version here

Early Predictions on the Canadian Election

I found the comments on Kate McMillan's blog most interesting. Here's the comment I left:

Interesting read, all! I started off this election campaign appearing on Roy Green's show on the Corus network. Five of us from across the country will be part of his panel every Sunday. Not too long today but great fun.

I'm optimistic that Dion will ... well, be Dion, and mess things up completely. I'm not speaking about his challenges with English, which I will never criticize him for, but simply the strange comments that come out of his mouth at times. I actually think he means well but I've known too many absent minded professors in my time to take any of them all too seriously.

Assuming that the Liberals do implode, at least in the West, what will liberal voters do with their vote? Conservatives? NDP? Park it with the Greens? Skip the election entirely?

The biggest laugh I had today was Jack Layton's opening speech, comparing himself to "the significant change occurring in the U.S. presidential election". Of course he was referring to Obama but did Olivia [Chow] keep him in a freezer for the past week? He seemed to be in deep denial about the enormous change that has occurred down there, now that most middle-class Americans have discovered their REAL hero. Then when I later saw this - I began to think of Jack more in the role of the past Iraqi Information Minister.

What I'm wondering about most is whether you think the Sarah Palin factor will have an effect, positive or negative, on The Conservatives chances of a majority government here in Canada.

Secondly, I'm wondering if the presence of Canadian conservative blogosphere will have a similar effect as in the U.S. of providing instant fact checking and pointing out similar atrocious behaviour amongst the [ultra] liberal Canadian blogosphere? In the U.S. the DailyKos is at the top of that pyramid. Here in Canada it's the CBC! Put on your hardhat and welding mask and take a look at these examples. On the very first comment I looked at I saw this gem:

Alberta has a lot of both natural wealth and monetary wealth. Unfortunately, Alberta also has all of the greed and none of the humanity. Thank Klein for that. Now that influence has produced Harper.

And a few down, this beauty:

Mr Harper the Man who could not say he loved his Country!
The Man who shook the hand of his son on his first day of school!
Let's not be fooled by the wolf in sheep's clothing.
Bush's Politics and Putin's secrecy.
Who is breaking his own rule's.
Let's send him a message he will remember.
Send him back to Alberta there's plenty of jobs there in the tar sands.

What lovely, compassionate people huh?! Makes me so proud to be a member of the Canuckistan Proletariat.

And finally, perhaps the beauty of them all. What would we all do without this enlightenment:

According to CBC radio this A.M. Mr. Harper used a 4 car motorcade to go from 24 Sussex to Rideau Hall. Apparently they are across the street from each other.
Just a little more of Stevie's environment plan.
Mr. Chretien, and Mr. Martin both walked when they decided to call elections.

So brilliant, so important, so relevant! And yet, 292 CBC MENSA members recommended that everyone read it. God help us all!!!

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Should anyone wish to comment on the two major questions I've asked, I'll do my very best to summarize the comments on Roy Green's show next Sunday.

Canadian Arts Grants Cut . . . Boo Hoo!

Unbeknownst to most Canadians, $4.7 Million per year has been mostly wasted by our federal government on something called the PromArt program. This liberal slush fund has been used for such things as:

• $3,000 given to Holy Fuck, a Toronto rock band, to travel in the U.K.
• $5,000 given to former CBC broadcaster, Avi Lewis, to let the little darling go to film festivals in Australia & Argentina
• $16,500 given to Tal Bachman, a best-selling recording artist, travel to South Africa and Zimbabwe
• $3,000 given to author Gwynne Dyer, to travel to Cuba
• $18,000 given to The North South Institute, a left-wing anti-globalization "think tank", to attend an anti-Western conference in Cuba (Note: I put "think tank" in quotes because isn't a left-wing think tank an oxymoron?)

On a related note, a few years ago I received a detailed summary from a close friend of how the Canadian film industry works vs. the American film industry. Down south, people come up with project ideas and then go to private sources to get funding. But here in Canada, most filmmakers live entirely off of the public trough (that's your money and mine), figuring out assorted ways to get various grants to fund their projects. In most cases, there's absolutely no expectation that there'll ever be much public interest in their finished work, let alone making a profit. This well known con has been going on for decades.

I can only imagine the reaction from those at the CBC, who have stolen wasted consumed more public money than any other group I know of. They'll be decrying this for the next 20 years. IMHO good riddens!!! And realize that this is probably one of hundreds of government programs that are nothing other than a privileged slush fund. If recipients of such funds were to turn into pickpockets tomorrow nothing much would change in their disgusting behaviour.

An All Too Common Dope in the Land of Trudeaupia

I still can't get it out of my head what one caller, an older woman, said on Charles Adler's show last week: "I always listen to the CBC because they're the only ones who tell the truth!"

This woman is either cursed with a severe mental disease or is full of blissful ignorance. Either way, I don't think I've heard such an incorrect, false statement in some time. Surely even those who work at CBC News realize that what they broadcast most every day is nothing short of propaganda?

Just a Typical Day for CBC News Reporters

Ensure there are no sharp objects around when you read this. Remember that over a billion dollars of year of your tax dollars are funding twits like this at the CBC. It's unbelievable how ignorant two so-called journalists could be!

Update: I just heard the CBC Radio News report on their 4:30pm news. The local reporter mentioned in the cited piece is Karen Tankard. She is the same one who won the 2002 Jack Webster award for "Excellence in Legal Journalism".

Remember that old line about what 4 bits and a journalism degree will buy you . . . ? ! ? :-)

Today's Political Commentary

Rex Murphy Speaks Out FOR Free Speech

Rex Murphy, of the CBC, speaks out in support of Mark Steyn and Maclean's magazine.

If you wan to read something really scary - and dare I say NON-CANADIAN - then take a look at many of the comments on the CBC website. It's rather disturbing to me that most every commenter with a Muslim sounding name was completely against Murphy. I have to believe that these people grew up outside of Canada because no Canadian I know would ever be against free speech. I'm sorry for what Mark Steyn has to go through but it's now clear that this debate is long overdue.

Late Breaking News: Charest Keeps His Seat

Turns out the CBC can't be trusted. They declared that Quebec premier Jean Charest had definitively lost his seat. Now he seems to have won, and with a 1,300 vote margin no less:

Candidate	Party	Vote Count	Vote Share	Elected
Jean Charest	LIB	13136	36.56%	X
Claude Forgues	PQ	11804	32.85%
Michel Dumont	ADQ	6409	17.84%
Christian Bibeau	QS	2263	6.3%
Steve Dubois	GRN	2203	6.13%
Hubert Richard	IND	115	0.32%
March 27, 12:30:46 AM EDT		212 of 212 polls reporting

It annoys me to no end that once again a major media outlet is more concerned with being the first to declare something than being factual. I wonder if the CBC will issue an apology?

I just send them the following inquiry but bet I'll never receive a response:

I understand a great deal about computer models but do no understand how you could have declared Jean Charest losing, when he clearly ended up winning and not by a small margin.

Based on similar false reporting in past elections, when are you going to place accuracy above the race to be number one?

Why could your newsroom not have waited until "Elected" really meant ELECTED???

The [Not So] Great Canadian Environmental Debate!

I'm generally not much of a CBC fan because of the extreme left-wing bias in most of their programming by I frequently listen to one radio show called The House. In the most recent program, there was a ridiculous display of one upmanship displayed by all the guests. It prompted me to send the host, Kathleen Petty, this letter:

I love your show and listened with great interest to your February 3rd discussion about the environment with members of the Conservative, Liberal, and NDP parties. If that's the best that our three major parties have to offer then God ... errr may Mother Nature help us!

I couldn't stop thinking throughout that the interview was not a whole lot different than the venerable TV show, The Dating Game. (Feel free to listen to the theme music while reading the rest of my e-mail!) The 3 bachelors were desperately trying to win the heart & mind of Miss Canada (us voters).

Mr. Conservative is her latest beau. She's been dating him for the past year, is generally content but ... her old boyfriend, Mr. Liberal, who she's been involved with many years in the past, is now actively pursuing her again, after having to sort out some financial issues with the police. He's definitely the flashiest of all, but she hasn't decided whether she can trust him again. The third bachelor, Mr. NDP, seems like a nice guy but she thinks he's too much of an idealistic geek to ever get seriously involved with. This doesn't stop him from endlessly trying to win her heart though.

Miss Canada has an American uncle named Al Gore. Last year she saw a movie he made about a pending worldwide environmental crisis. Since then she keeps hearing the word "Kyoto" every time she turns on the TV, listens to the radio, or reads the newspaper. She doesn't really know what it means but figures it must be important if so many people are always talking about it. When she was dating Mr. Liberal she remembers him signing some document on her behalf with that "K" word on it, but it certainly didn't make her change her lifestyle! He was having too much fun with her to ever mention

All of this recent environmental talk has perked her interest so much that she confided to her girlfriends (the political pollsters) that the man in her life better be darned concerned about it too ... even if she isn't too clear on the details of what "it" is. As might be expected, the girlfriends let this slip to the 3 bachelors. They're now all pumping their chests, trying to outdo the others, to prove to Miss Canada that they are the greenest of all and thus deserve her affection!

Sadly, none of these fellows realize that the object of their affection was terribly spoiled as a child and grew up in a very privileged environment. Her family stems from proud and noble roots, but it is unclear to all her cousins, watching her from afar, whether she can give up her two cars, her fabulous condo, and her regular winter jaunts down to warmer climes. At this point she doesn't even know that she has to change anything in her own life, but rather is just relying on her boyfriend to ensure that businesses do everything. To varying degrees, the 3 bachelors have convinced themselves that she is prepared to make some radical changes. Time will tell, but relationship counseling seems like a foregone conclusion! If so, her boyfriend can pick up the tab for that too.

Jennifer Mather is Back!

My 2nd favourite radio talk show host (David Berner is #1) in Vancouver is back, albeit on TV. Jennifer Mather (now Burke) gave up her afternoon slot on CKNW to move down to Los Angeles with husband, Brian Burke, who is the GM of the Anaheim Ducks hockey team. Well, our local CBC TV station has recruited her back!

The show will start January 15th and air Monday - Friday at 1pm on Channel 3 on Cable and Channel 2 otherwise. Should be interesting! I do wonder if she'll be making the commute from L.A. every day or just staying here during the week. Either way, she'll be one busy lady!