With competition from streaming services, a quickly-changing broadcast and news landscape, and diminished trust in the public broadcaster, the future of the CBC is as murky as ever.
With competition from streaming services, a quickly-changing broadcast and news landscape, and diminished trust in the public broadcaster, the future of the CBC is as murky as ever.
Tara Henley, a former CBC producer who now runs a popular Substack, said the CBC lost trust when Canadians started to see it as overly politicized.
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre made defunding the CBC a centrepiece of his leadership campaign, sparking raucous chants in support of the idea at his rallies across the country.
  • Rentlar@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Since both the left-fringe and the right-fringe have both gained prominence in recent years, government-run media is sometimes painted as left-biased by conservatives and corporate-run media is sometimes exaggerated in its right-wing bias by progressives.