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Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse
They're saying "no surprise" because many conservative leaning people write off the CBC as being bad because they don't agree with all of its reporting or coverage choices. And once you write something off as bad, you'll assume it's bad overall meaning that it's faulty in other areas too. That's because they assume the disagreements they have with it can't be mere differences in opinion or philosophies, or heaven forbid, that they might be wrong themselves. No, the disagreement must be due to other party being crazy and/or incompetent because if they weren't, they'd have programming that they consider "correct" ie indulging conservative narratives.
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I would say that's fairly close to the truth except for the part about indulging conservative narratives.. Why you often see conservative leaning people perturbed by coverage is because of what they see as a lack of fairness. CBC has always had a "liberal" leaning but it was tolerable because the coverage seemed fair. The same applies to left leaning people who use Fox News as a pejorative and roll their eyes. The news division has some very good journalists and the commentators (like other outlets) are just that. You have to distinguish between the two.
There are far more activists than journalists at Mother Corps. Personally, I have brought attention to stories I've seen as fair, frankly because I am surprised they are there. I thought it was very courageous (a much overused word these days) for one of their radio hosts to really grill her own boss (the President of the CBC). I think the BSM story took some courage because it seems to both fight and coddle CBC's ultra native and alphabet agenda but my real interest in the story is the mystery and personal element not the political. I can find enough of that here.