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Offline Michael Hardner

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Journalism Culture
« on: March 14, 2024, 04:34:48 pm »
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Canadaland reported that The Hub counted a total of 73 foreign correspondents from all Canadian media, 54 of which are CBC.

And those will mostly be gone when Poilievre kills the CBC.

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Offline Spike The Hike Shady

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« Reply #1 on: March 15, 2024, 09:13:23 am »
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Canadaland reported that The Hub counted a total of 73 foreign correspondents from all Canadian media, 54 of which are CBC.

And those will mostly be gone when Poilievre kills the CBC.
Why does CBC have so many foreign correspondents?  That's more than most networks in Canada and the United States combined.  Regardless, if they didn't decide to pay out million dollar bonuses to executives while cutting jobs and losing an incredibly large amount of money, they might be able to retain some of them.

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« Reply #2 on: March 15, 2024, 09:25:06 am »
Why does CBC have so many foreign correspondents?  That's more than most networks in Canada and the United States combined.  Regardless, if they didn't decide to pay out million dollar bonuses to executives while cutting jobs and losing an incredibly large amount of money, they might be able to retain some of them.

I don't know where you get that stat.

The bonus question is valid but I'm talking about CBC being eliminated.

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« Reply #3 on: March 15, 2024, 10:03:53 am »
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Canadaland reported that The Hub counted a total of 73 foreign correspondents from all Canadian media, 54 of which are CBC.

And those will mostly be gone when Poilievre kills the CBC.

Possibly.

But let's also consider the impact on our industry when the biggest competition for all media outlets is a government news site that doesn't need to worry about profits to survive.  If the CBC didn't exist, which I'm not saying should happen, then it would obviously have a positive impact on private news companies since their biggest competition for eyeballs was gone.

Also consider the impact that our largest news outlet is government owned.  That's a bit uncomfortable.
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« Reply #4 on: March 15, 2024, 10:20:27 am »

1. But let's also consider the impact on our industry when the biggest competition for all media outlets is a government news site that doesn't need to worry about profits to survive.  If the CBC didn't exist, which I'm not saying should happen, then it would obviously have a positive impact on private news companies since their biggest competition for eyeballs was gone.

2. Also consider the impact that our largest news outlet is government owned.  That's a bit uncomfortable.
1. If the CBC dying it would mean more market for private news companies but would not help them enough in this current environment.  Would the citizen or even the consumer be benefited by fewer competitors ?  What about if Bell/Rogers merged would that be better for the combined company in terms of profits ?  The answer is yes.

2. Yes but they are arm's length.  The best assessment of their bias that I have heard came from Jesse Hirsch who said their bias is pro-government, regardless of the party in power.

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« Reply #5 on: March 15, 2024, 11:05:03 am »
oh my, a CBC bashing thread! Who knew it would go there...

Also consider the impact that our largest news outlet is government owned.  That's a bit uncomfortable.

crown corporation - government owned, operates independently. By the by, after Harper put his most partisan spin on who he appointed as CBC/Radio Canada Board directors... after the shyte load of criticism that Harper action brought forward, it was PM Trudeau who (in 2017) initiated the creation of the Independent Advisory Committee for appointments to the CBC/Radio-Canada Board of Directors. Just sayin', hey!

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« Reply #6 on: March 15, 2024, 11:22:02 am »
oh my, a CBC bashing thread! Who knew it would go there...

crown corporation - government owned, operates independently. By the by, after Harper put his most partisan spin on who he appointed as CBC/Radio Canada Board directors... after the shyte load of criticism that Harper action brought forward, it was PM Trudeau who (in 2017) initiated the creation of the Independent Advisory Committee for appointments to the CBC/Radio-Canada Board of Directors. Just sayin', hey!
CBC gets over a billion dollars in tax money funding every year.  We have more important priorities than to make sure a bloated roster of foreign correspondents have jobs.  There are several private companies that provide that service with no tax money required.
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« Reply #7 on: March 15, 2024, 02:05:33 pm »
CBC gets over a billion dollars in tax money funding every year.  We have more important priorities than to make sure a bloated roster of foreign correspondents have jobs.  There are several private companies that provide that service with no tax money required.

LOL no there aren't.

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« Reply #8 on: March 15, 2024, 02:53:24 pm »
But let's also consider the impact on our industry...

of... the impact of foreign ownership/bias on the existing Canadian media-scape. Here we have the Conservative CPC's propaganda arm, Postmedia, through a series of purchases by American hedge funds, now being 98% foreign owned! That's quite the positioning when foreign ownership of Canadian newspapers is supposed to be limited to 25%... those American hedge funds skirting that limit by taking the company public and selling shares on the stock market!

what was once the traditionally moderate/progressive positioning of the previous Southam chain, that changed to an American hedge fund driven 'hard-right' shift by Postmedia. Speaking of Canadaland in earlier posts in this thread: You Must Be This Conservative To Ride: The Inside Story of Postmedia’s Right Turn

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« Reply #9 on: March 15, 2024, 03:00:09 pm »
CBC gets over a billion dollars in tax money funding every year.  We have more important priorities than to make sure a bloated roster of foreign correspondents have jobs.  There are several private companies that provide that service with no tax money required.

There are 19 correspondents from private companies.  There's no $ to provide this right now.

"Bloated" - there used to be far more foreign correspondents back when we "couldn't afford it"

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« Reply #10 on: March 15, 2024, 03:03:38 pm »
Those private companies also receive public funding.

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« Reply #11 on: March 15, 2024, 03:07:09 pm »
Those private companies also receive public funding.

Well... private TV broadcasters kind of do but I don't think NEWS exactly does.

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« Reply #12 on: March 15, 2024, 03:22:51 pm »
notwithstanding the outright demonizing of journalists by a 'certain' political leader/party, the waldo gives you the CPC/PoiLIEvre authoritarian political 'gatekeeping' influence on journalists; as follows, 2 journalists addressing the ongoing, the repeat, unwillingness of PeePee to take questions from journalists: