The guy is a idiot. The CBC should broadcast news with substance and accuracy neither are ever present from Conservative dialogue these days.
I also don’t know how CBC could lose this one since they probably have hundreds of articles in the last few years showing they go out of their way to find a Conservative to provide their idiotic opinion.
He said he felt shows like Power & Politics would just have Liberal talking points on all the time, and that as a network, the CBC needed balance.
“There were repeated episodes of Conservatives being blocked. I mean, I have the G-chats right here. I said in terms of getting folks on, that we need to have balance,” Dhanraj said.
It would suit the interests of corporate and right wing elements for him to advance this case, both in court and in the media. Maybe they are taking some of the financial burden off his virtuous pursuit of truth…
Yes it’s pretty in line with the what they do these days. He loses they rage over the institutional people out to get them, he wins they’ll rage over institutional people out to get them.
Agreed, there’s a confusion between “balance” and “clout”. When media just invite people based on right or left clout, audiences lose in terms of quality information. We end up receiving echo chambers on the airwaves because these clout chasers repeat talking points at us. Clout chasers in turn just want to maintain their own reputation and this loop turns into a toxic signals circle.
CBC P&P has had Danielle Smith, Scott Moe and Pierre Poilievre on for interviews more recently than David Eby or Wab Kinew. Also the political insiders on the Power Panels aren’t afraid of making fun of the party they are or were previously affiliated with.
Nothing new about this, the CBC ombudsman is a joke. His only role is to rule in favor of the CBC content policies, to make it look like the CBC had some oversight against its bias.
CBC has always kept to standard Canadian ‘talking points’ of the major political powers. It definitely does lack in the diversity of opinions that are not shared by the traditional major spokespeople of the traditional parties. If you are not mainstream, you are not on CBC.
What I understand from this is that Dhanraj thought it was a good idea to ask notorious con
servativeman their ideaSounds like he probably should have stayed in commercial media. The article itself is interesting because of its authorship and the issues that raises.