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thepeel
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| Well, it is pro-Liberal (the party). They aren't exactly friendly to the NDP, Greens or Bloc. The Cons are just the easiest and most obvious target right now. |
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Czarjorge
Joined: 01 May 2007
Location: I now have the same moustache, and it is glorious.
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| Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 5:59 pm Post subject: |
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Czarjorge, the CBC has proven itself to be a spokespiece of the Canadian left-wing. What if the opposite were to happen in the US? How would you feel if Foxnews was to become the government funded news network of the United States? Once you're not a part of the populace that the CBC is fighting for(now a plurality of Canadians), then you realize the injustice that is occurring. Their job is the represent both sides of the debate.
How many times must they rerun a Michael Moore documentary in prime time anyway? |
"Proven"? The article in the OP, that is from the convservative party no less, clearly states its suspected and has yet to be proven true. I'm assuming you're more right than left based on your responses and level of outrage, would you really have such an issue with it if the bias was in your favor?
To your Fox point, most conservatives in the US would argue that the majority of programming on NPR/PBS is left leaning. The notion that there is no bias in the news is naive. Humans are incapable of being truly objective, they can only attempt to be as objective as possible. As ridiculous as all the classes I took in journ-o school were, they at least admitted up front that subjectivity was the enemy, but impossible to completely eliminate. |
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enns
Joined: 02 May 2006
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| Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 6:13 pm Post subject: |
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Czar, I'm using a Conservative pundit's website because few mainstream media outlets will fully cover this issue. The fact of the matter is that a former Liberal cabinet minister has implicated the Liberals and the CBC and the CBC has not only begun an internal investigation but admitted to said collusion. If you want another source, check out the Toronto Star:
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OTTAWA�The CBC has begun an internal investigation and possible disciplinary process after one of its parliamentary reporters suggested questions to a Liberal MP on the Commons ethics committee.
The probe follows a formal complaint by the Conservative party. It centres on claims that MP Pablo Rodriguez (L-Honor�-Mercier) directed questions from the CBC to Brian Mulroney during a highly anticipated Commons committee hearing on Thursday.
CBC News says the reporter, whom it did not name, "may have been in pursuit of a journalistically legitimate story."
But the broadcaster says it was an "inappropriate way of going about it and, as such, inconsistent with our journalistic policies and practices."
Rodriguez was accused of going on a "fishing expedition" by Tory MPs after he began questioning Mulroney about possible lobbying efforts on wireless regulation during a hearing into the decade-old Airbus affair.
The Liberal party denies there was anything untoward, saying it gets "bombarded" daily with comments and ideas for questions from Canadians and from reporters. |
http://www.thestar.com/News/article/285888
This isn't a Conservative hit job, this is what happened whatever way you want to look at it.
This will have been the THIRD TIME since 2004 that the CBC has admitted to conspiring against the Conservative party.
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enns
Joined: 02 May 2006
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We want a name
National Post Published: Thursday, January 10, 2008
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Last month, it was revealed that an unnamed CBC reporter had colluded with Liberal MPs in an attempt to tie Stephen Harper's Conservative government to the Mulroney-Schreiber scandal. When the Conservative party complained about such behaviour from our "public" broadcaster, newly appointed CBC News publisher John Cruickshank boasted of his corporation's "transparent and reliable complaints process." So how come this process has suddenly turned opaque? Why won't the public broadcaster name the guilty reporter or announce what punishment she -- or he --has received?
There can be little doubt a CBC reporter ghostwrote questions for Quebec Liberal Pablo Rodriguez to ask former prime minister Brian Mulroney at the House of Commons ethics committee during its pre-Christmas hearings into Mr. Mulroney's dealings in the early 1990s with notorious German arms dealer Karlheinz Schreiber. When the story first broke nearly a month ago, CBC spokesman Jeff Keay even admitted to The Canadian
Press that one of the Crown corporation's reporters had acted in an "inappropriate way" and violated CBC's "journalistic policies and practices."
The unethical journalism revolved around an interrogation Mr. Rodriguez conducted of Mr. Mulroney that had nothing to do with the old scandal being investigated and everything to do with an attempt to create a new scandal tying a Mulroney albatross around the neck of the current Conservative government.
Mr. Rodriguez, a Montreal-area MP who seldom speaks English in the House, suddenly began questioning Mr. Mulroney with the precision and erudition of a trial lawyer. "Mr. Mulroney, you said you made no presentation to Maxime Bernier [the former industry minister in the Tory government and now Minister of Foreign Affairs] on the wireless spectrum issue," Mr. Rodriguez declared in English. "While he was the industry minister, have you ever had a private or public dinner or lunch with him in Montreal, or any other city? Have you ever met with him at all? If so, how many times, in which city? Have you ever placed a telephone call to him, or has he called you? On any of those, did you discuss the wireless spectrum issue?"
It is not the CBC's business to manufacture news with the cooperation of one political party in an attempt to discredit another. But the behaviour of the reporter in question certainly leaves Canadians with the impression that the CBC and Liberals are working together to embarrass -- or even bring down -- the Harper government.
In late December, Mr. Cruikshank wrote to Doug Finley, the head of the Conservatives' campaign team, to counter-complain. Mr. Cruickshank insisted that the Conservatives' use of the Rodriguez incident in a fundraising letter was threatening "public faith in our political process."
Really, Mr. Cruikshank? Even more threatening than finding out our public broadcaster -- which already has a reputation for anti-conservative, pro-liberal bias -- and the main opposition party are in cahoots against the government?
Such sanctimony is what sets so many Canadians against the CBC in the first place. They object to having their tax dollars going to a broadcaster that uses the money to disparage their points of view and beliefs. Then they are doubly offended by the CBC's pious insistences that its coverage is balanced and that all complaints to the contrary are attacks on Canada's democracy.
On Tuesday, Mr. Finley sent a follow-up letter to Vince Carlin, the CBC's ombudsman, asking that the corporation commit to naming the reporter and outlining "what disciplinary measures have been or will be taken."
This is only right. The CBC survives off public funding. More, then, than private broadcasters, it has an obligation to demonstrate it is always working to eradicate partisanship from its coverage of public issues.
The apparent desire now to hush this controversy up and deal with it internally may just be the standard bureaucratic rump-covering that occurs in any large public institution. But it discredits the CBC and puts the lie to Mr. Cruikshank's "transparent and reliable" claim.
Name the guilty reporter, and let the public see what penalty has been meted out. |
http://nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=226831 |
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contrarian
Joined: 20 Jan 2007
Location: Nearly in NK
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| Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 8:24 pm Post subject: |
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| The scumbag reporter should be fired. |
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