People want to know why, for example, non-binary Filipinos concerned about a lack of LGBT terms in Tagalog is an editorial priority for the CBC, when local issues of broad concern go unreported. Or why our pop culture radio show’s coverage of the Dave Chappelle Netflix special failed to include any of the legions of fans, or comics, that did not find it offensive. Or why, exactly, taxpayers should be funding articles that scold Canadians for using words such as “brainstorm” and “lame.”
When I started at the national public broadcaster in 2013, the network produced some of the best journalism in the country.
FACT CHECK: False on that one, CBC has been propagandist shit for decades. In 2000 their version of "The Daily Show", "This Hour Has 22 Minutes", did a bit mocking conservative leader Stockwell Day for that would allow a national vote on any issue, if three per cent of the electorate, or about 350,000 people, signed a petition. So Rick Mercer started a joke petition calling for a vote on having Day change his 1st name to "Doris" to mock him. Years later, UK PM Tony Blair's top aide released a book mentioning that the Liberal PM at that time had gotten Mercer to do it. That made almost no headlines.
FACT CHECK: False on that one, CBC has been propagandist shit for decades. In 2000 their version of "The Daily Show", "This Hour Has 22 Minutes", did a bit mocking conservative leader Stockwell Day for that would allow a national vote on any issue, if three per cent of the electorate, or about 350,000 people, signed a petition. So Rick Mercer started a joke petition calling for a vote on having Day change his 1st name to "Doris" to mock him. Years later, UK PM Tony Blair's top aide released a book mentioning that the Liberal PM at that time had gotten Mercer to do it. That made almost no headlines.