CBC welfare cheque must end.

It's time to cut off the $1.1 billion annual welfare cheque to the biased state broadcaster CBC.


Acclaimed author Bruce Bawer has just written about "This Hour Could Have 10,000 Minutes: The Biases of the CBC" for FrontPage Magazine.

The only thing worse than having the biases of the mainstream media inflicted upon you on a daily basis is having to subsidize it. For Americans, to be sure, the rip-off isn't so terrible: the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds PBS and NPR, gets $430 million a year from the federal government, which comes to only a couple of bucks per household. In Britain, by contrast, the BBC license fee is now £145.50 ($226) annually per TV-owning family. And in Canada, the CBC receives more than $1.5 billion a year from the Canadian government, which amounts to upwards of $100 per household.



And what, exactly, are Canadian taxpayers paying for? That's the question asked - and very illuminatingly answered - by a new documentary, This Hour Could Have 10,000 Minutes: The Biases of the CBC, producedby James Cohen and Fred Litwin. (The title is a reference to "This Hour Has 22 Minutes," a long-running CBC series specializing in political satire.) Focusing on two main topics - anti-Israel bias and anti-conservative bias - the documentary consists almost entirely of CBC clips (most but not all of them from news programs) in which we can see these biases in action. To judge by this compilation, the CBC is perhaps even more slanted than the infamously partial BBC - and, perhaps, even more brazen about it.



Take the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In the documentary we see excerpts from a CBC report on the second Gaza "Freedom Flotilla" that consists entirely of interviews with flotilla participants - all of whom represent it as a virtuous and innocuous aid mission and condemn Israel's actions against the previous flotilla as absolutely unjustified. At no point does the CBC provide even a brief reminder that there is, in fact, another side to the story. (As the documentary asks: "Is this reporting? Or stenography?")



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See how fast CBC gobbles tax dollars:
http://www.proudtobecanadian.ca/index/cbc/waste-o-meter/

Sick Daze at CBC

According to government Access to Information documents obtained by Sunmedia, CBC spent $15 Million for employee sick days in 2006/07. A majority of those sick days went to the French CBC radio and TV staff in Quebec.
Canadians pay approximately $500 each per year for 'cultural concepts' like museums, libraries, etc. but around 80% of that money goes to the CBC, CRTC and Can. Television Fund.
Studies have shown that cultural spending is overwhelmingly consumed by the well-to-do and paid for by the masses of poorer people who don't even listen to or watch the wasteful public broadcaster.
Snubbing its’ nose at rural Canada, CBC is well known for promoting 'alternate' and radical feminist life choices in its’ broadcasts such as airing the first live homosexual 'wedding' on a cold Sabbath day in Feb/04 and avoiding equal time for differing opinions.
We're happy for the 6% of Canadian elites who actually view CBC but the majority of us are fed up with our public funds going to pay for utter stupidity, biased, agenda-driven reporting, huge salaries and in case I didn't mention it, biased, agenda-driven reporting. On top of all that we have Public Television with its’ own agendas.
CBC may have been relevant 50 years ago when there was a shortage of information networks but today, with a broad variety of providers, plus the internet, the CBC has become a Billion dollar a year, obsolete and unnecessary yoke on Canadian taxpayers who prefer to spend their money on their own choices, like any other charity.
Since when is it the publics responsibility to support a socialist enterprise that losses hundreds of millions of dollars every year? At a time when the real market industry is looking for financial support, it is irresponsible for our government to be pouring our money into frivolous enterprises like the arts and entertainment world.
CBC content is made in the big cities, for the big cities and, like all of the pollution they send us, is unneeded and unwanted by most rural citizens.
If our cultural elites want to listen to classical radio and watch 'Steve and Chris' every day, let them pay for it, sick days included.