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Originally Posted by fastcarsfreedom
The CBC for better or for worse has always been relatively proud of it's left-lean. I have a hard time believing anyone worth their weight at the CBC would claim otherwise. These are the people that spend public dollars to push their agenda--my only beef with the CBC has been their public funding source...otherwise they can do/say whatever they please...but spare me any lectures about their clarity and impartiality.
A left-lean in the media is not quaint notion--in fact, it's alive and well. Balancing that there are other media outlets that lean right of centre. Amazing how some folks get excitied about a political slant at The National Post or Fox News Channel when it is merely the mirror image of what has existed at media outlets throughout the history of journalism.
Nonetheless, I will say again, whoever decided to lead The Spec with the story that proved to be inaccurate ought to be embarassed. Nonetheless, it alone is not an indicator of poor jounalism or pandering to "thugs" but merely a poor editorial decision.
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I'm sorry, but you sound 55 years old.
I would respectfully ask you to watch the National at 10pm on CBC for 2 weeks and let me know what you honestly think.
I'm not aware of any other media outlets on TV or radio that are as blatant in their bias as FOX. They aren't balancing anything...they've crossed the line from journalism into fearmongering, puppet-talk and corporations controlling the message.
I'm not sure if you call them right-leaning or left or what...but in terms of plain old ignorance and refusal to deal with facts, they are on an island.
I don't even consider them a media outlet...FOX has done nothing but ruin TV with 'reality' shows (at least there's more reality in them than in their 'news' casts) glowing hockey pucks, stupid robots on their NFL coverage etc.....
I won't mind if you don't take up my offer, but I'd really be curious to see you watch the National for 2 weeks with no pre-conceived ideas.
I never used to watch it...once I did I was hooked. It's good old fashioned Canadian news.