Tuesday, April 18, 2023

Your Government-Funded CBC and You

To wit:


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As one can see from the unimaginative and perpetually perturbed political elite, they are most displeased:

Twitter owner Elon Musk has changed CBC’s label to “69% Government-funded Media,” after the public broadcaster paused its use of the platform.

CBC stopped its use of Twitter Monday over being labelled government-funded, a term Twitter defines as having some level of government involvement in news content. Musk then initially changed the tag to 70 per cent, to reflect that CBC/Radio-Canada received $1.24 billion in parliamentary appropriations last year and earned $651 million in revenue, such as advertising.

CBC spokesperson Leon Mar said in an email “this is not a serious response. Journalistic independence is not a game.” He said the “real issue” is that “Twitter’s definition of ‘Government-funded Media’ means open to editorial interference by government.”

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(Sidebar: not for long.)

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Justin. Knee-jerk anti-Americanism. Depending on anti-Americanism to deflect from Justin's many, many, many, many faults, failings and acts of corruption.

A combination of all three?

 

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