We all have our opinions, everybody and every institution is biased, it's a matter of survival, but for my money CBC is less biased than every other network I can watch. If you want to get into bias, Fox news wins hands down although Pravda would have gave them a run for their money years ago.
Keep you're money. CBC is famous for it's anti conservative bias.
So to sum up the majority of the postings on this topic...
If you vote Liberal / NDP / or for any other left leaning party : CBC is un-biased and even handed in the way it reports the news and in its general commentary on all things political. CBC rocks!
If you vote Conservative : CBC is often biased (anti-conservative) and slants its coverage in the way it reports the news and in its general commentary on all things political. CBC sucks!
Beauty is always in the eye of the beholder I guess.
So to sum up the majority of the postings on this topic...
If you vote Liberal / NDP / or for any other left leaning party : CBC is un-biased and even handed in the way it reports the news and in its general commentary on all things political. CBC rocks!
If you vote Conservative : CBC is often biased (anti-conservative) and slants its coverage in the way it reports the news and in its general commentary on all things political. CBC sucks!
Beauty is always in the eye of the beholder I guess.
"Beauty is always in the eye of the beholder I guess"
That’s why the CBC and its defenders usually don’t even bother to protest against charges of political bias. They believe deeply in the superiority of their vision. In their minds, they’re just doing their job.
After all, if the CBC weren’t biased in favour of its own founding mandate, its defenders wouldn’t care for it as they do. They get upset only when the CBC seems to move away from its foundational biases.
(Incidentally, that’s why the CBC is always able to say it gets criticized for bias from both sides. There really are two sides: those who think it’s too biased, and those who think it isn’t biased enough.)
A recent study by three Canadian academics has concluded that CBC AM radio is ideologically left-wing.
In a paper entitled “Bias on the CBC? A study of Network AM Radio,” Profs. Barry Cooper and Lydia Miljan of the University of Calgary and Maria Vigilante of Carleton University agree with the increasing number of Canadians who are upset about CBC News and Current Affairs treatment of important public issues. The authors state that there is somewhat of a “leftist orthodoxy” among CBC staffers and quote internal CBC studies which conclude that its hosts and producers are “products of the more radical sixties and appear unsympathetic to the new conservatism of the eighties” and that public complaints of a leftist slant have been significant and growing since the early seventies. The authors also find that criticism of the federal Tory Government from the Left was covered five times more often than criticism from the Right.
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That's your example? They have one Liberal and one Conservative debating. On a current political affairs show. Again, where's structural the bias?
Spell it out for me how CBC is biased from this clip? Where is CBC taking sides on this debate.
Good to see it went right over your head. Graves is a CBC pollster, paid handsomely by the Liberals and polls numbers for the CBC.
Gives advice to the Liberals too In his advice, Mr. Graves could hardly have been more blunt. “I told them that they should invoke a culture war. Cosmopolitanism versus parochialism, secularism versus moralism, Obama versus Palin, tolerance versus racism and homophobia, democracy versus autocracy. If the cranky old men in Alberta don’t like it, too bad. Go south and vote for Palin.”
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Well there are those examples...and then there is the CBC Ombudsman himself admitting as much when asked to investigate an article that CBC used after Palin was nominated as McCains running mate.
CBC ombudsman David Bazay later admitted that "the May 4 report did expose The National to the appearance of bias." CBC apologized on-air and CBC News editor-in-chief Tony Burman reassured viewers that CBC had "modified our editorial processes and procedures to ensure that this situation is never repeated."
Good to see it went right over your head. Graves is a CBC pollster, paid handsomely by the Liberals and polls numbers for the CBC.
Graves is an EKOS pollster who the CBC pays for polling. If I extend your line of logic, all media bodies that use EKOS polling are biased too then right?
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Gives advice to the Liberals too In his advice, Mr. Graves could hardly have been more blunt. “I told them that they should invoke a culture war. Cosmopolitanism versus parochialism, secularism versus moralism, Obama versus Palin, tolerance versus racism and homophobia, democracy versus autocracy. If the cranky old men in Alberta don’t like it, too bad. Go south and vote for Palin.”
Nice.
This is interesting but has nothing to do with the question of CBC bias. For CBC to be biased they would have to represent those views of their own and offer no counter-points or opinions. In this clip they explicitly state that those aren't the views of the networks and have a lively debate on the validity of those opinions. Again, how is this biased?
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So is the CBC biased for having Andrew Coyne as a pundit on At Issue who is a Conservative supporter?
Of course not....none of the pundits are to be perceived as anything but stating a position. That's fine.
Frank Graves is a liberal donator that is also hired by the CBC to do polling and has offered advice to the Liberals on how to beat the Cons. Do you really not comprehend the difference?
I mean when the CBC ombudsman himself has admitted liberal bias in the past, i have no idea why you still beleive it does not exist. It plain as day and I actually couldn't care less.
What drives me nuts is when the left then turn around and claim it doesnt exist as a basis for continuing to be funded by the taxpayers.
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