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Originally Posted by Daradon
There was a thread about a year ago complaining about the state of news channels in the States. Obviously Fox is a joke, but even CNN has pandered to a lower denominator with entertainment masquerading as news and MSNBC is just lost.
The posters in the thread were asked to think of a good reputable news organization. BBC was first, CBC was second. Both are publicly funded.
It may be bloated, it may have terrible programs, but Canada and the world need the CBC. It makes us a better and more informed place to live.
The news, or fifth estate is a weird animal. Completely publicly funded it's usually just a propaganda machine for the dictatorship. Completely privately funded it becomes an MTV station with no value and actually ends up perpetuating the lies of the ruling class it was made to investigate.
Our model isn't perfect, but I like it. I like the CBC.
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Nobody cares if you like the CBC. What we care about is the $1.6 billion it costs to prop them up.
If their news is so good(which I also think it is)....they should easily be able to compete in the free market.
Personally I think they easily could. Where they are losing money is with everything else. Minus HNIC. Cut out all the other programming and just make yourself a news channel, with hockey every Saturday, and you probably turn a tidy profit every year.