Media Bias [Merged]

[QV]

You should check out the latest Munk Debate on YouTube about mainstream media. "Be it resolved, don't trust mainstream media."

The link won't post for some reason.

 

[RangerRay]

It’s stuff like this that makes the CBC less and less relevant everyday.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/defund-police-2023-budgets-grow-1.6741711

We have seen that this is extremely unpopular, even with liberal Democrats in places like San Francisco and New York. Most on the center-left are running away from this stupid idea. So with a wave of random violent crime in our cities, and general disorder, why is the CBC scandalized that police budgets aren’t being reduced? To me, this is another example of their growing irrelevance. Add to this their sob story/oppression story of the week they beat to death, or the impolitic comments by their president this week, I don’t know how they expect people to tune in, other than many communities are now news deserts.

It’s like the CBC is begging to be defunded.

 

[dimsum]

other than many communities are now news deserts.

I'm not sure how communities are news deserts in this day and age of "everyone on Youtube can be a journo".

 

[RangerRay]

A lot of medium and smaller cities (and bigger centres too) have lost their newspapers, or the newsrooms have been reduced to a skeletal staff and nothing gets covered in depth. So in a place like Kamloops, you might get a ton of international and national news, but good luck finding out about corruption at city hall.

Meanwhile, CBC will spend a week with their comparatively larger newsroom talking about the poor woman with one leg who has to walk 500 meters uphill both ways to a heated bus shelter and wants one outside her house. Or the person who got a ticket from the mean by-law officer. Or the person who wasn’t allowed to use the bathroom at the gas station because they didn’t buy anything.

 

[dimsum]

A lot of medium and smaller cities (and bigger centres too) have lost their newspapers, or the newsrooms have been reduced to a skeletal staff and nothing gets covered in depth. So in a place like Kamloops, you might get a ton of international and national news, but good luck finding out about corruption at city hall.

Meanwhile, CBC will spend a week with their comparatively larger newsroom talking about the poor woman with one leg who has to walk 500 meters uphill both ways to a heated bus shelter and wants one outside her house. Or the person who got a ticket from the mean by-law officer. Or the person who wasn’t allowed to use the bathroom at the gas station because they didn’t buy anything.

Like CBC national, or the various CBC local newsrooms?

When I was in MB, I saw CBC coverage about Winnipeg or Thompson, but nothing about folks in Victoria or Halifax. And vice versa when I was in those other places.

 

[FSTO]

Like CBC national, or the various CBC local newsrooms?

When I was in MB, I saw CBC coverage about Winnipeg or Thompson, but nothing about folks in Victoria or Halifax. And vice versa when I was in those other places.

That maybe the case then, but now there is nothing in CBC Manitoba except Winnipeg stories or the latest disaster at a remote reserve on the upper reaches of Lake Winnipeg.

As for the CBC overall, the feeling in the colonies is that within the CBC bunker located in downtown Toronto is that their field of view encompasses the Toronto Waterfront and then an arc that encompasses Mississauga, Brampton, Vaughn, Richman's Hill, Markham and Scarborough. There is an outpost at Parliament Hill that sees the world within the 1,000 meter circle of Parliament Hill. The rest of Canada? Well, there be dragons out-there!
Someone needs to do a Downfall episode with CBC CEO Tait as the center of attention.

 

[RangerRay]

Like CBC national, or the various CBC local newsrooms?

When I was in MB, I saw CBC coverage about Winnipeg or Thompson, but nothing about folks in Victoria or Halifax. And vice versa when I was in those other places.

Sorry, I was talking about the local CBC outlet. They never went through the downsizing that their private competitors went through. But instead of using those resources for in depth journalism on local issues people might care about, it’s the sob story of the week and other human interest stories, usually with an activist bent. And forget about stories outside the urban centre that outlet is located.

In The Line podcast, Matt Gurney was talking about how one night, he saw a tweet from Toronto Police of an incident where police had to lock down a section of the city because someone was taking potshots at police. There was a time where local broadcasts would have been interrupted with breaking news about such a shocking event. Instead, there was nothing from any news outlet until one outlet re-tweeted the TPS tweet hours later. And this was in the one city in Canada that has a plethora of news outlets. Not that long ago, reporters and newscopters would have been all over a major public safety event like this.

Meanwhile, CBC uses it’s hefty resources for stuff that would be at home on college radio.

 

[Halifax Tar]

Remember this:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/cbc-conservative-party-lawsuit-1.5319209

I do believe that was during an election as well.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cbc-conservative-party-lawsuit-dismissed-1.6025022

I think its time to cut the tax funding from the CBC and let it survive or die on its own merits.

 

[lenaitch]

Sorry, I was talking about the local CBC outlet. They never went through the downsizing that their private competitors went through. But instead of using those resources for in depth journalism on local issues people might care about, it’s the sob story of the week and other human interest stories, usually with an activist bent. And forget about stories outside the urban centre that outlet is located.

In The Line podcast, Matt Gurney was talking about how one night, he saw a tweet from Toronto Police of an incident where police had to lock down a section of the city because someone was taking potshots at police. There was a time where local broadcasts would have been interrupted with breaking news about such a shocking event. Instead, there was nothing from any news outlet until one outlet re-tweeted the TPS tweet hours later. And this was in the one city in Canada that has a plethora of news outlets. Not that long ago, reporters and newscopters would have been all over a major public safety event like this.

Meanwhile, CBC uses it’s hefty resources for stuff that would be at home on college radio.

But they haven't skipped along unscathed from media downsizing and convergence. I can't find a list of television studios that closed or downsized, but on the radio side, several have been closed or reduced to a couple of hours a day as part of a centralized program.

In terms television broadcast, they shut down all of their analogue transmitters and only converted a handful, in large market areas, to digital. So if you live in an area outside of a major centre, you either hope for cable, shell out for satellite or wireless, or try and stream online which might be dial-up.

 

[The Bread Guy]

That maybe the case then, but now there is nothing in CBC Manitoba except Winnipeg stories or the latest disaster at a remote reserve on the upper reaches of Lake Winnipeg.

Similar pattern here in Ontario, especially listening to the weekend newscasts - if it happened outside 416/905, it better be huge to make it into the 'cast.