Colpy
I gave up listening to CBC radio when every second "informed commentary" came from someone with a distinctly Semitic tone of name.....same with the Globe and Mail ...or Grope and Flail as a friend told me they're actually referred to around the free world...
If governments..."states" control media.....whom do you think represents the largest ethnic group in Canadian media ...
If "Media" can be used to influence public opinion and potentially political outcomes....why is the predominance of one sector of people from a little nation over near Iraq so obviously slanted?
Do you really believe that there can be such a thing as a truly "free press"....? Doesn't the old saw about ...follow the money apply to media...TV...radio....print media....?
I call it the "Gab and Wail" myself, but buy it every day, ever since the demise of my formerly-beloved "National" Post in eastern Canada.
Don't get too wound up about Jews controloing the media.........the influence is there, but most of them would agree with you quicker than me......except on Israel. It also casts a pall on your argument, true or not, simply because it starts to sound like something from the Elders of Zion paranoia........
I actually think some form of CBC is necessary...........I just don't like the billion dollar one we have now. Juan, I watch the CBC's National broadcast from Kabul, from any city in the world that is the source of a major story.......and I dream of hitting their budget with a huge machete......THINK about it, that is SO expensive, and exactly what is the advantage of having Peter Mansbridge talking from where ever?
I do think ideas are best disseminated through private means......it used to be (150 years ago)each paper had a political backer, and we all knew who they were. Read two or three, and you could guess the truth...........