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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

I think that the discussion around media bias'd is over rated, we all know that it happens.

CBC, CTV News Net and Sun Media are all biased and all promote their own views. Its up to us as viewers to decide what to watch.

However out of the three one is publicly funded heavily and you could argue that's the issue.

I don't think its logical to think that the CBC would just act as a neutral outpost to the other privately funded enterprises, however there could be an argument that CBC has lost its way a bit.

But us being upset about CBC being biased shields the real issue here that the CBC has become a sink hole for publicly entrusted funds where we're seeing things like massive expenses, poor spending and bad programming that doesn't really answer to improving Can Con.

I'm sure if you sell the rights or give the rights to another broadcaster in terms of hockey you might see a radical improvement on the product in a similar way that TSN really pushed the CFL to a far higher level in terms of production, effort and promotion.

How can you compare the NHL to CFL? The NHL doesn't have anything like the issues the CFL had. The CFL was a fading league and TSN justly deserves the kudos for what it has done to bring it back, but it also filled a nice hole in their programming schedule so it wasn't simply altruistic.

I don't think the CBC losing HNIC would bring any benefit whatsoever to hockey coverage. Why would less competition mean any improvement in coverage? That is like saying fewer mobile companies will mean better prices and coverage. If you want better "production, effort and promotion" then you want more outlets competing for viewership, not less.