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Originally posted by Lurch@Nov 2 2004, 04:46 PM
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And the network's Rough Cuts program is hyping a documentary called Stupidity, which focuses on the U.S. President as as example of "stupidity as a driving force in society."
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I wouldn't call it bias since it's true! 
Regardless, I think your vitriol for CBC is a little inconsistent with your seeming apologist approach to Fox. Both are simply appealing to their constituents - very few righties watch CBC and they have plenty of other options. I submit that CBC is putting on the programming that will get it the best ratings given the make-up of their audience. Maybe you should alter your critique to say they are becoming too much like the dirty capitalists they loathe!! :P Or should they go to airing moderate, thoughtful pieces that nobody watches, ignoring the pressure for ratings?
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I've said very clearly and frequently that FOX has a reputation for a clear right wing bias so I really have no idea what you're talking about with your statement.
In fact, I use both CBC and FOX as the goalposts for the left and the right. I don't recall ever defending FOX other than to say you can go there OR CBC and get the basic facts on a story.
I submit that CBC is putting on the programming that will get it the best ratings given the make-up of their audience.
Since CBC usually has the lowest rated audiences for most local markets where it has competition, they don't seem to be doing a particularly good job of hitting the people you say they're appealing to. Unless its the NDP crowd, in which case they're doing splendidly.
At the beginning of the 1990s, 28% of all early evening news viewers tuned into the CBC. That figure has dropped to 13% over the decade.
CBC executives were responding to political and public pressure over a report in yesterday's National Post that they plan to kill existing supper-hour shows and eliminate 674 jobs in the process – half the CBC's regional TV workforce. The shows would be replaced by one national supper-hour show with regional inserts.
http://www.friends.ca/News/Friends_News/ar...les05110003.asp
That move, in 2000, as you're probably aware, was an even bigger disaster for CBC ratings.
CTV Evening News has been a top 20 program nationally the last six weeks running whereas Peter Mansbridge has not cracked the list once. I noted a story earlier in October which mentioned Coronation Street was drawing a bigger audience number than The National.
Cowperson