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Canadian government funded media outlet defends the government’s actions.

There was a reason people complained about the government’s funding of media.

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Sigh. This article is based on scientific evidence. Please leave your politics out of it.

Anyways, the vast majority seem perfectly happy with the CBC.

Fewer than 1 in 5 Canadians want CBC funding decreased: poll https://ipolitics.ca/2019/05/13/nearly-80-of-canadians-want-...

Sigh. The CBC is well known to support this government, and that reporting is biased, that's not 'political' it's just reality.

While that part of the strategy 'panned out', the government was ineffective in securing vaccines despite early 'deals', all the while the CBC was not particularly hostile to this fact.

That fewer that 1 in 5 Canadians want CBC funding decreased is a populist issue.

It’s an article about scientific papers. It reports what they reported: The strategy worked out. Bringing up the politics of the CBC in this context is an irrelevant distraction. Claiming the article is intentionally misleading is outright lying. Note: the poster edited their post after I posted mine. It originally contained a claim that most Canadians want the CBC abolished (or something to that effect). The wording of the other claim (that the article is misleading because the CBC is biased was also toned down) Hence the “sigh”. I’m tired of people who are clearing arguing in bad faith. That proved itself in this case.

This poll was done in 2019. Things were a bit different back then. The majority is probably still happy with CBC, but the proportion could change.

Paraphrasing your comment: "ok, you're right... but that could change one day!"

Thanks tips.

Just the people in Alberta. No one anywhere else really notices or cares about the CBC. I've always appreciated having a national news source, personally. I think it's fairly high quality and reasonably unbiased compared to some of the alternatives.

Some people, but I see more people happy of having public medias.

I don’t need a state media and public funding for private media.

CBC used to be good, it’s pretty bad nowadays.

Driving through Canada, the bias of the CBC was quite obvious, and there was very little if any competition from any other outlet.

That said, the information being provided here is in accord with known science of vaccination, and is based on voluminous data. If you have a legit complaint about what they're saying, you'll need to provide some legit data that backs you up.

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