This analysis of media bias is unintelligible without any definition of left and right, conservative and liberal. Social and economic values no longer align tidily, which is why you have to look at them independently, and why traditional political alignments are tearing apart in the West. For instance, is globalism and open borders a right-wing or a left-wing aim? To a traditional working class union supporter it's right-wing. To a progressive urbanite it's leftist.
Almost all mainstream media in Canada are pro free enterprise and socially progressive. This leaves the anti-corporate left denouncing them as corporate stooges and social conservatives denouncing them as out of touch cosmopolitan elitists.
Canada's largest newspaper, the Globe and Mail, doesn't even pretend to address the concerns of a 58 year old siding installer in Kamloops. It's a paper for the educated, urban, and affluent, and displays all the assumption and values you would expect to find in its readership.
The CBC's mission of afflicting the comfortable and comforting the afflicted has led them to become banner-waving champions in anything to do with culture and identity. The values and attitudes of half of Canadians regarding social issues are anathema to the CBC. Which is hardly the hallmark of a centrist institution.
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