no real shocker but where it came from might be.
After my post last week complaining -- and yes, worrying -- about CBC journalist Keith Boag's personal opinions on Donald Trump, I told myself to lie low. It's the holiday season.
That turns out to be very hard to do, because once one notices the extent to which personal opinion has become the day-to-day fodder of an ever widening circle of CBC journalists, you see it, hear it and click on it everywhere.
Let me be crystal clear: this is threatening the future of the CBC.
I personally agree with Terry Milewski's "analysis" of the Senate, posted yesterday, Dec 14th, on CBC.ca.
But with a straight face, tell me that what Terry wrote represents impartial journalism.
Should Terry be saying it? No, absolutely not.
These comments, these opinions, unequivocally violate -- spoiler alert: here's the broken record again -- CBC's long-standing, public and incredibly clearly-written policy statement that its journalists and the organization itself must not take ANY positions on issues in the public life of the country. They must be -- impartial.
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CBC Is Threatening Its Future By Mixing Journalism And OpinionÂ*|Â*Frank Koller
fukking defund and sell this student council broadcaster ASAP.
After my post last week complaining -- and yes, worrying -- about CBC journalist Keith Boag's personal opinions on Donald Trump, I told myself to lie low. It's the holiday season.
That turns out to be very hard to do, because once one notices the extent to which personal opinion has become the day-to-day fodder of an ever widening circle of CBC journalists, you see it, hear it and click on it everywhere.
Let me be crystal clear: this is threatening the future of the CBC.
I personally agree with Terry Milewski's "analysis" of the Senate, posted yesterday, Dec 14th, on CBC.ca.
But with a straight face, tell me that what Terry wrote represents impartial journalism.
"This is an undemocratic farce ... for a vast, modern democracy to be saddled with an unelected upper house is an embarrassment ... the Senate's ludicrously lop-sided makeup makes it doubly farcical ... It's as though we dug up a relic of an ancient civilization ... could the rites of the pharaohs be any more bizarre? ... these absurd imbalances, fossilized by history ..."
Can I say what Terry said? Sure I can, because it's my personal opinion. And I don't work at the CBC.
Should Terry be saying it? No, absolutely not.
These comments, these opinions, unequivocally violate -- spoiler alert: here's the broken record again -- CBC's long-standing, public and incredibly clearly-written policy statement that its journalists and the organization itself must not take ANY positions on issues in the public life of the country. They must be -- impartial.
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CBC Is Threatening Its Future By Mixing Journalism And OpinionÂ*|Â*Frank Koller
fukking defund and sell this student council broadcaster ASAP.
