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Carney pledges $150M boost to 'underfunded' CBC (www.cbc.ca)

submitted 2 years ago by floofloof@lemmy.ca to c/canadapolitics@lemmy.ca

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[–] can@sh.itjust.works 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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[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl -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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[–] can@sh.itjust.works 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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[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl -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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[–] can@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Well they sound like a petty bunch, but I still think it's the oligarchs of the continent that hold most of the blame.

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[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah, fair points.

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