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Carney pledges $150M boost to 'underfunded' CBC (www.cbc.ca)
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[+] -34 points 2 years ago* (38 children)

I’m not sure if government funded news from a government owned by corporations is a great idea.

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  • [–] [S] 25 points 2 years ago*

    Better than getting it directly from the corporations. We have more leverage over government. And we can vote in a different government, especially if we keep up the pressure for electoral reform.

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  • [+] 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (16 children)
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  • [+] -11 points 2 years ago (15 children)

    Most people get their news from alternative sources anyway.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    Which has proven catastrophic... But i guess that's what you like?

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    No. I hate it. But pushing funding into corporate media is going to exacerbate that issue is the problem.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    So your solution is total corporate ownership of any and all news outlets?

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  • [–] -4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Honestly man, I don’t actually have a good solution to this. It’s a shitty situation our modern media has backed itself into.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Well doubling down on what caused the problem is not likely a good solution

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    They acknowledged my points so I appreciated that.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I’m a big enough man to acknowledge when I’m wrong. Lord knows it happens all the time. My frustration comes from these already tried solutions that aren’t going to solve the issue. Which is that the people you need to convince aren’t going to trust a government funded news source at this point. Not that privatized media is any better for actual factual journalism. You see what I’m saying? The only good journalism now is from books that are well cited, which are hard to actually produce and 99 percent of people don’t read. That’s why this frustrates me so much.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Which is that the people you need to convince aren’t going to trust a government funded news source at this point.

    Which is why we need to reframe it more accurately. They government doesn't fund it: we do.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Like facebook!

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  • [–] -5 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    Yes. Sadly, yes. And they’ll say “well this is liberal propaganda on cnn because look at how much money they gave them.” So this whole exercise is futile.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    When i go to the doctor I pay no attention to their medical advice, I always get sicker and sicker, see how doctors suck??

    Circular logic is circular

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  • [–] -3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    You understand that doctors and media are wildly different things right?

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  • [+] 15 points 2 years ago (12 children)
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  • [+] -7 points 2 years ago (11 children)

    The liberals and conservatives in Canada might as well be the same party at this point for me. I hate them both so much.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    They’re different

    Liberals are the old Conservatives

    Conservatives are the old Reform Party

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    You’re right. They are different. The conservatives will 100% cow to Trumps regime. And that is a big important difference. But the liberals have been fucking us just as hard as Harper did, so you can see why I might be less than stoked about supporting that party.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Yeah, I understand this. And you explained it exactly how I already perceive it. It’s just exhausting and I’m tired of pretending the liberals aren’t also the enemy, to maybe skew some votes every four years for the lesser evil. It’s stupid. It’s bullshit. I’m done doing it. And I don’t really care if that makes people angry. Because that’s also stupid as fuck.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    The alternative is media owned by foreign (American) billionaires.

    I much prefer the one our taxes pay for thank you very much.

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  • [–] -4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    We’ve been through this before and it pushed our country into alternative foreign owned and backed media shit. The Rebel Media and such got a huge surge in traffic after Trudeau promised funding to the CBC. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills at this point, does nobody else remember this shit?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I don't remember that, no. But CBC needs funding regardless.

    I have trouble believing increased funding for CBC was the majority force behind our current media landscape.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Well it was, I remember having to hear about it endlessly from all my construction friends at work constantly when it happened.

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