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Exit Strategy: Taking Back the CBC
I was treated today (F12)to one of CBC News' newest programs. 'Correspondent' ran a BBC documentary that contends: "All's well in Iraq. As well as can be expected, better in some cases." Today (F12) the producers at CBC News ran the BBC documentary, 'Exit Strategy' on the "iraq crisis."
Fittingly, considering the CBC's obvious determination to serve merely as a 750 million dollar per year echo chamber for the corporate megaphone currently destroying our southern neighbour, and much of the rest of the planet, the title of the Corp.'s new offering is perfectly Orwellian. Judging by the tonight's report on Iraq, it corresponds to no reality, excepting the DoubleSpeak emanating from the likes of FOX, etc.
Now, I'm used well to the crap-bath of mainstream media mindstream sewage coming from below the 49th, and it's fourth estate fifth columnists operating from this country, and respect their right to opinion; but I won't pay for it. The CBC, on the other hand is another hand in my pocket.
If we're to sustain a public broadcaster, an arguable necessity for any properly functioning democracy, then it's time we Canadians take back the public airwaves. We cannot allow a Continentalist philosophy control of the biggest media organ in the country. Especially now, when their message is bolstering the prospect of a spreading war, a war that will encompass Canada and the rest of NATO.
We must stand and be heard on this: Canadians are fortunate to have an entity like the CBC, a theoretically public institution dedicated to the public weal. The infrastructure and assets of the CBC could help prevent a disasterous allegiance with the criminal element currently running roughshod over the globe. But, as the CBC is constituted, we seem in for more bare propaganda, generated from distant studios.
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