CBC tap danced before Dipper employee dumped

CBC tap danced before Dipper employee dumped

Locutus

#1Jan 17th, 2013

By Eric Duhaime ,QMI Agency

On my radio show in Montreal last week, I revealed that an employee of the French CBC also worked for the NDP for more than six months in 2012 (from May to November).

Those of us who are familiar with the CBC’s left-leaning bias were not surprised, just disgusted.

It was only the latest on the long list of our Crown Corporation’s double standards in terms of political partisanship.

When we first revealed her moonlighting, CBC started by defending its employee, arguing that she was not on the full-time staff — she was a freelancer.

As if one can tell the difference when watching the news.

Then CBC pretended that while working for the NDP, she was paid by the House of Commons, not by a political party.

Following that logic, we can pretend that the prime minister, all the ministers, their whole staff and all our MPs are non-partisan since they are all paid by our tax dollars, not by the political contributions of party members.

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skookumchuck

Free Thinker

Re: CBC tap danced before Dipper employee dumped

Jan 17th, 2013

Quote: Originally Posted by Locutus

By Eric Duhaime ,QMI Agency

On my radio show in Montreal last week, I revealed that an employee of the French CBC also worked for the NDP for more than six months in 2012 (from May to November).

Those of us who are familiar with the CBC’s left-leaning bias were not surprised, just disgusted.

It was only the latest on the long list of our Crown Corporation’s double standards in terms of political partisanship.

When we first revealed her moonlighting, CBC started by defending its employee, arguing that she was not on the full-time staff — she was a freelancer.

As if one can tell the difference when watching the news.

Then CBC pretended that while working for the NDP, she was paid by the House of Commons, not by a political party.

Following that logic, we can pretend that the prime minister, all the ministers, their whole staff and all our MPs are non-partisan since they are all paid by our tax dollars, not by the political contributions of party members.

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CBC tap danced before Dipper employee dumped | Columnists | Opinion | Toronto Sun

Won't be any honest response around here Loc.

taxslave

No Party Affiliation

Re: CBC tap danced before Dipper employee dumped

Jan 17th, 2013

Double Dipping?

earth_as_one

Re: CBC tap danced before Dipper employee dumped

Jan 17th, 2013

The Toronto Sun is bad for your brain.

The CBC hires from all political stripes. Watch The Insiders: The Insiders - The National - TV Shows - News - CBC Player

Spade

Free Thinker

Re: CBC tap danced before Dipper employee dumped

Jan 17th, 2013

It's called Sun stroke.

DaSleeper

Re: CBC tap danced before Dipper employee dumped

Jan 17th, 2013

Quote: Originally Posted by skookumchuck

Won't be any honest response around here Loc.

Right on...

Walter

Re: CBC tap danced before Dipper employee dumped

Jan 17th, 2013

Quote: Originally Posted by earth_as_one

The CBC hires from all political stripes.

Including fraudsters.

TeddyBallgame

Re: CBC tap danced before Dipper employee dumped

Jan 17th, 2013

Quote: Originally Posted by earth_as_one

1/ The Toronto Sun is bad for your brain.

2/ The CBC hires from all political stripes. Watch The Insiders: The Insiders - The National - TV Shows - News - CBC Player

- EAO ... 1/ Well, at least you have nothing to worry about.

2/ I happen to be familiar with the CBC and know some of its past and present star performers. While the network pacifies the Conservative government by providing some token conservatives on some of its panel shows, the overwhelming percentage of employees behind the mikes and in front of the cameras as well as in the executive suites are obviously left of center and also considerably left of where most Canadians currently happen to be. This leftist tilt is most pronounced and problematic in the Fench CBC services as is the tilt towards sovereignty. Only those in the tank and/or on the take for the CBC and a few hopelessly naive left wing loons pretend otherwise.

damngrumpy

No Party Affiliation

Re: CBC tap danced before Dipper employee dumped

Jan 17th, 2013

First of all I agree that she should have taken a back seat with the CBC while
working for the NDP. People should in fact have a little history as to how the
freelance system works, before putting up a wall of indignation.
A freelancer may work for the CBC on Monday and CTV next Thursday that
is what freelance means. Yes you will be on the list of contributors at CBC and
or any other service you contribute to.
I have worked for radio stations but I did freelance print media on a freelance
basis as well. That was decades ago and I am no longer in the media business.
It is excepted practice. Sun Media is like a soap opera at times, instead of releasing
a balanced story they have to make it out to be sensational. They do have some
very good stories the problem is this network has to mature and spend more time
becoming relevant in established media circles.
A freelancer can contribute stories and get paid for them working for several outlets
that is what freelancing means. These people can work in a media capacity for a
political party at the same time, as they are related industries. They follow the money
and their may be no allegiance attached that has been the case for decades.
She was a freelancer, she did work some stories for CBC, she may also have worked
for other media or even a political party. Had she worked for CTV and the NDP we
would not be having this discussion. As for people in media, I have known people in
the CBC, CTV Global and local media some right wing some left wing, people are
people and they all have opinions that is life.

Cliffy

Free Thinker

#10

Re: CBC tap danced before Dipper employee dumped

Jan 17th, 2013

As if SUN isn't full of right wingnuts. Kinda like a rattler calling a python a snake in the grass.

Last edited by Cliffy; Jan 17th, 2013 at 03:11 PM..

DaSleeper

#11 Top Rated Post

Re: CBC tap danced before Dipper employee dumped

Jan 17th, 2013

Right wingnut ....left wingnut....
Just drive an old dodge.....it has both...then you can really claim to be in the middle........

Spade

Free Thinker

#12

Re: CBC tap danced before Dipper employee dumped

Jan 17th, 2013

Testimonials

"Mein Gott im Himmel. Ich liebe CBC"
-Pope Benedict

"My husband and I adore the CBC."
-QEII

"If you don't like the CBC, then you like the terrorists"
- Former President GWB

"The CBC is the Fifth Noble Truth."
-The Dalai Lama.

"I know all them guys!"
- TBG

Colpy

Conservative

#13

Re: CBC tap danced before Dipper employee dumped

Jan 17th, 2013

Quote: Originally Posted by earth_as_one

The Toronto Sun is bad for your brain.

The CBC hires from all political stripes. Watch The Insiders: The Insiders - The National - TV Shows - News - CBC Player

Quote: Originally Posted by Cliffy

As if SUN isn't full of right wingnuts. Kinda like a rattler calling a python a snake in the grass.

Quote: Originally Posted by DaSleeper

Right wingnut ....left wingnut....
Just drive an old dodge.....it has both...then you can really claim to be in the middle........

Quote: Originally Posted by Spade

Testimonials

"Mein Gott im Himmel. Ich liebe CBC"
-Pope Benedict

"My husband and I adore the CBC."
-QEII

"If you don't like the CBC, then you like the terrorists"
- Former President GWB

"The CBC is the Fifth Noble Truth."
-The Dalai Lama.

"I know all them guys!"
- TBG

Who cares??

I mean, every outlet has its bias....and if you don't realize the CBC is left of centre, then you are not paying attention.

I don't have a problem.....until they start shilling for the Liberal Party on the National News.

Just sell it, and be done with it.

damngrumpy

No Party Affiliation

#14

Re: CBC tap danced before Dipper employee dumped

Jan 17th, 2013

Individuals do have bias and we as citizens have the right to accept or discard the
message. I do not see the need to dismantle the CBC at all. I don't agree with all
I hear either.
I have respect for CTV and some for Global. I have a problem at time with Sun Media,
not always for the content but they way they set up the story. They need to find their
way in the mainstream media information outlet, but they need to be less strident if
they want to reach beyond a narrow base.

earth_as_one

#15

Re: CBC tap danced before Dipper employee dumped

Jan 17th, 2013

Sun Media isn't news, its about giving their viewers an opinion, making them think its their own and attacking anyone with a viewpoint left of Stephen Harper.

Colpy

Conservative

#16

Re: CBC tap danced before Dipper employee dumped

Jan 17th, 2013

Quote: Originally Posted by earth_as_one

Sun Media isn't news, its about giving their viewers an opinion, making them think its their own and attacking anyone with a viewpoint left of Stephen Harper.

CBC isn't news, its about giving their viewers an opinion, making them think its their own and attacking anyone with a viewpoint right of Pierre Trudeau.

Cliffy

Free Thinker

#17

Re: CBC tap danced before Dipper employee dumped

Jan 17th, 2013

The difference between CBC and SUN is that Sun is all about slanted news and opinion while the CBC has so much more content than news and opinion. I don't listen to CBC because I don't listen to any radio or watch TV but I know a lot of people who do. They tend to be a little more educated than your average radio listener or TV watcher.

DaSleeper

#18

Re: CBC tap danced before Dipper employee dumped

Jan 18th, 2013

Quote: Originally Posted by Cliffy

They tend to be a little more educated than your average radio listener or TV watcher.

Aahh! Yes....people who know better...the elite...and they tend to vote liberal

.....go figure

TeddyBallgame

#19

Re: CBC tap danced before Dipper employee dumped

Jan 18th, 2013

Quote: Originally Posted by DaSleeper

Aahh! Yes....people who know better...the elite...and they tend to vote liberal.....go figure

- DS ... Now don`t you be ragging our Cliffy. Our Cliffy `self identifies as a ``free thinker``. He probably thinks the CBC is free, too.

Cliffy

Free Thinker

#20

Re: CBC tap danced before Dipper employee dumped

Jan 18th, 2013

Quote: Originally Posted by DaSleeper

Aahh! Yes....people who know better...the elite...and they tend to vote liberal.....go figure

It does have some snob appeal, but then your post is reverse snobbery.

Quote: Originally Posted by TeddyBallgame

- DS ... Now don`t you be ragging our Cliffy. Our Cliffy `self identifies as a ``free thinker``. He probably thinks the CBC is free, too.

They used to be free of ads, but with cutbacks, they are forced to advertise, which is where much of their financing comes from.
BTW, I also self identify as an anarchist. I don't take politics seriously and am highly amused at those who do.

TeddyBallgame

#21

Re: CBC tap danced before Dipper employee dumped

Jan 18th, 2013

Quote: Originally Posted by Cliffy

It does have some snob appeal, but then your post is reverse snobbery.

- Cliffy ... Are you claiming that Don Cherry`s Coach`s Corner and Coronation Street`, the CBC`s two most popular programs, have snob appeal. I should have thought they have more slob appeal. Why I even watch them myself.

Cliffy

Free Thinker

#22

Re: CBC tap danced before Dipper employee dumped

Jan 18th, 2013

Quote: Originally Posted by TeddyBallgame

- Cliffy ... Are you claiming that Don Cherry`s Coach`s Corner and Coronation Street`, the CBC`s two most popular programs, have snob appeal. I should have thought they have more slob appeal. Why I even watch them myself.

I was thinking more of their radio programming. I hope you don't take Don seriously. He is a clown.

TeddyBallgame

#23

Re: CBC tap danced before Dipper employee dumped

Jan 18th, 2013

Quote: Originally Posted by Cliffy

It does have some snob appeal, but then your post is reverse snobbery.

They used to be free of ads, but with cutbacks, they are forced to advertise, which is where much of their financing comes from.
BTW, I also self identify as an anarchist. I don't take politics seriously and am highly amused at those who do.

- But the CBC still relies on the annual billion buck subsidy courtesy of the federal taxpayers, a diminishing number of whom watch anything on the CBC. The days are long done when the Conservative government of R.B. Bennett launched and financed the CBC radio network because otherwise Canadians in remote areas of the country would have no access to radio and so the argument to contune after nearly 80 years to still massively subsidize the CBC is in my opinion pretty weak.

- I thought anarchists tended to oppose big government including government control of mass communications resources yet so many of your posts seem like they are left wing big government rather than limited government oriented messages.

Cliffy

Free Thinker

#24

Re: CBC tap danced before Dipper employee dumped

Jan 18th, 2013

Quote: Originally Posted by TeddyBallgame

-
- I thought anarchists tended to oppose big government including government control of mass communications resources yet so many of your posts seem like they are left wing big government rather than limited government oriented messages.

Don't know where you got those ideas. I feel that the highest form of government should be the community, the feds would be the lowest, making only foreign policy and inter provincial trade their mandate.
No, I just like to razz the fanatics, and it just seems that most fanatics tend to way out in right field.

TeddyBallgame

#25

Re: CBC tap danced before Dipper employee dumped

Jan 18th, 2013

Quote: Originally Posted by Cliffy

I was thinking more of their radio programming. I hope you don't take Don seriously. He is a clown.

- Cliffy ... I first met Don Cherry when I first moved to Toronto in 1979. I took an apartment literally right beside Maple Leaf Gardens and just up the block from the now defunct Westbury Hotel where Leaf people liked to drink and dine. One cold January evening I walked into the main lounge of The Westbury and there sitting all by himself was Don Cherry. I couldn`t resist going over to him and predicting that he was going to be a major star on Hockey Night in Canada (this was his first full season on the show) and I believe Don appreciated my comments.

- Several years ago after I moved to Mississauga not far from where Cherry lives, I bumped into him at a supermarket, recalled the above noted story for him, and we chatted amiably for probably half an hour.

- Let me tell you that any high school drop out who can go on to coach a Stanley Cup winner and become the top rated and paid personality on a national TV network and remain so into his 80s is not a clown.

- In fact, Don is a very bright and intuitive and shrewd guy who knows exactly what his brand is and how best to promote and remain true to said brand and he does it masterfully. No book smarts, no elocution lessons, no elitist airs, but he is hockey smart and quite funny and honest and direct and he also embodies a lot of old time Canadian values and attitudes which we, sometimes to our loss, are gradually discarding. So no I don`t take him seriously on à lot of things but I do very much on hockey and somewhat on Canadian values and heritage.

Nuggler

#26

Re: CBC tap danced before Dipper employee dumped

Jan 18th, 2013

Quote: Originally Posted by taxslave

Double Dipping?

Disreputable Dipping Double Dipper Dumped

Quote: Originally Posted by Walter

Including fraudsters.

you might know some ?

CDNBear

#27

Re: CBC tap danced before Dipper employee dumped

Jan 19th, 2013

Quote: Originally Posted by skookumchuck

Won't be any honest response around here Loc.

To say you hit the nail on the head, would be an understatement.

Machjo

#28

Re: CBC tap danced before Dipper employee dumped

Jan 19th, 2013

The Ottawa Sun is a populist rag. I won't even call it right wing since it would be an insult to principled conservatives.

And funding to the CBC ought to be cut. Sure it might have some good programmes, but so do other channels. Cut funding to all of them except possibly the CBC's educational services up North and that's it. Beyond that, we need not subsidize couch potatoes.

earth_as_one

#29

Re: CBC tap danced before Dipper employee dumped

Jan 22nd, 2013

Quote: Originally Posted by DaSleeper

Aahh! Yes....people who know better...the elite...and they tend to vote liberal.....go figure

Ironic that so many of the educated and successful elite would support improved social assistance for the uneducated and unproductive masses who tend to watch cable news and vote against their own interests. You'd think we'd have given up a long time ago. Except that multi-generational ignorance is societal burden. Everyone, including the elite class benefits from a large, productive middle class which is too busy and ambitious to commit crime or abuse drugs. Killing people's dreams and burdening them with a life of poverty is a recipe for revolution.

That why I support a government provided minimum standard of living, where no one is desperate. Basic needs including food, clothing, shelter, health care, security, education are a right... and must be supported through tax systems. If wealth is made or spent in Canada it can be taxed in Canada. The more wealth earned or spent, the more tax paid. Sure that's socialism's costs, but socialism's benefits are that it encourages sustainable economic growth. Once basic needs are met, minimum wage is no longer required. Merit based access to education provides an educated productive workforce. A government managed and regulated infrastructure provides reliable, efficient transportation and energy. Research grants lead to innovation.

A larger more productive middle class leads to a larger more productive elite class. The current direction of the wealthy getting wealthier leads to stagnation and instability.

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