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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
They have a slight left-leaning bias on social issues, as most of Canada does.
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Originally Posted by Fuzz
I'm not even sure it is a bias, it's reflection of the makeup of Canada. If you find the CBC is "left" that just means that's where you are relative to the "average" Canadian.
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I was talking specifically about implicate political affiliation in CBC news. There is some overlap between stance of social issues and political affiliation, but general stance on social issues is not the contentious bit, or rather it should not be. The aspect worth discussing, is out and out support of one political party over another. I think that CBC News is well within the limits of acceptable when it comes to political affiliation. That said, there is an obvious bias of support for the federal liberals, when it comes to
politics and political action, and it is worth regularly discussing this fact, and indeed the bias of all news broadcasts with respect to this. However the CBC, specifically CBC news deserves extra scrutiny based on its status as a publicly funded platform. Does that mean defund them, no? It means setting up a realistic amount of accountability.