As opposed to things like "Rebel News" being a font of absolute truth, right?
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As opposed to things like "Rebel News" being a font of absolute truth, right?
Rebel news is not funded by your tax dollar . Big difference .
Ever caught Rebel news in a lie? You just have to sift the religious garbage out, and you have honest reporting. Something government paid media outlets have forgotten how to do.
Yes.
That it calls itself "News". It is not "News" and hasn't been for years.
Federal Court upholds CRA decision denying Rebel News journalism tax credits; Rebel to appeal - Law360 Canada
The Federal Court has upheld a federal government decision denying journalism tax credits to the Rebel News based on a finding that it doesn’t produce enough original news content.
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"The CRA noted that the advisory board had assessed that Rebel News does not produce original news content, “on the basis that the content was found to be largely opinion-based and focused on the promotion of one particular perspective.”"
"The CRA concluded that the majority of Rebel News’s content is not based on facts and multiple perspectives that are analyzed and explained by a journalist for Rebel News in accordance with s. 2.27(c) of the Guidance and found that the original decision denying QCJO status to Rebel should stand."
"The three-week news content sample considered by the CRA included 423 news reports. Of this, the Officer on the second determination review found that 283 of the items were not based on facts, nor were multiple perspectives actively pursued, researched, analyzed, or explained by a journalist for the organization. A further 135 of the news items were identified as being curated content or material rewritten from other sources which is contrary to sections 2.34 and 2.35 of the Guidance. The Officer’s report found that 10 of the 423 items reviewed over a three-week period could be considered original news content.
Realistically, for an organization that is actively engaged in the dissemination of news, three weeks should be a sufficient time frame within which to demonstrate news generating activities. Finally, I would note that it was Rebel itself, and not the CRA, who selected the three-week period for review. [45] Rebel has not satisfied me that the CRA Decision is unreasonable on the grounds that the assessment of originality of news content was confined to a consideration of news reporting during a three-week period or that the news content for this period was not reasonably considered."
Oh and the fiasco over the debates:
"Rebel News Network Ltd. is registered as a third-party advocacy group with Elections Canada. Levant has said he set up the advocacy group to “stop Mark Carney.” Elections Canada says a third party is “generally a person or group that wants to participate in or influence elections other than as a political party, electoral district association, nomination contestant or candidate.”
Rebel News - Bias and Credibility
QUESTIONABLE SOURCE A questionable source exhibits one or more of the following: extreme bias, consistent promotion of propaganda/conspiracies, poor or no
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"Overall, we rate Rebel News Right Biased and Questionable based on the promotion of propaganda, conspiracy theories, poor sourcing, and several failed fact checks."
Doesn't sound like they're "not liars" to me there, Tax.
You have no reporting, you have, at most, opinions with a sprinkling of maybe 'news'.
And it's not honest, it's right leaning/biased. I mean, see above.
I've seen some of Rebel's work and read it; it's biased and not 'honest' at all.
Government paid media outlets being... which ones exactly?
Corporate Media is certainly biased - look at CTV for example who crumpled to right wing pressures to nix a fact check segment all because the snowflakes didn't like that their dear leader was fact checked (nevermind that other people of other parties were also called out for their 'non facts').
To Corporate, it's about $$ and Clicks/Watches/Reads.
The high stakes of defunding the CBC
A Conservative government could dismantle a key instrument of cultural sovereignty and weaken the Canadian media landscape at a critical time.
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Good .The high stakes of defunding the CBC
A Conservative government could dismantle a key instrument of cultural sovereignty and weaken the Canadian media landscape at a critical time.
The public broadcaster made the announcement in an unattributed statement Wednesday alongside a four-page memo summarizing a compensation review report conducted by a human resources consulting firm.
“The Board of Directors, with the advice and concurrence of the President and CEO, has decided to discontinue individual performance pay as part of the overall compensation earned by eligible employees of CBC/Radio-Canada,” read the statement.
“In order to keep overall compensation at the current median level, salaries of those affected will be adjusted to reflect the elimination of individual performance pay.”
The public broadcaster offered the bonuses as performance incentives to executives and over 1,000 non-unionized employees yearly.
CBC/Radio-Canada spokesperson Leon Mar would not say if the salaries of employees who were previously eligible for bonuses would be increased by the exact same amount as the lost performance pay.
apple.news
The public broadcaster has repeatedly come under fire from critics, opposition parties and even the Liberal government for doling out millions of dollars in bonuses to executives all the while laying off staff, so Liberal Leader Mark Carney said on Friday that his government would provide an initial $150-million annual funding increase to CBC and Radio-Canada as part of a new mandate for the public broadcaster.
That initial funding top-up could rise, Carney said.
apple.news
In announcing the plan to scrap the policy, CBC/Radio-Canada said in a statement it wants to focus less on short-term goals like revenue and more on "longer-term public service goals," like improving its "value to all citizens and strengthening Canadian culture." The new compensation structure will reflect that shift, it said.
But management and executive compensation is not necessarily going down as a result.
"In order to keep overall compensation at the current median level, salaries of those affected will be adjusted to reflect the elimination of individual performance pay," the company said.
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"We (being Mark Carney, speaking of himself as plural) expect that in the coming years, we will continue to increase that funding until it can be compared to that provided by other public broadcasters." (???)
Please, tell us more about these other public broadcasters in Canada that the CBC’s increase in funding is competing against for comparability?
“The Board of Directors, with the advice and concurrence of the President and CEO, has decided to discontinue individual performance pay as part of the overall compensation earned by eligible employees of CBC/Radio-Canada,” read the statement.
“In order to keep overall compensation at the current median level, salaries of those affected will be adjusted to reflect the elimination of individual performance pay.”
The public broadcaster offered the bonuses as performance incentives to executives and over 1,000 non-unionized employees yearly.
CBC/Radio-Canada spokesperson Leon Mar would not say if the salaries of employees who were previously eligible for bonuses would be increased by the exact same amount as the lost performance pay.
CBC eliminates bonuses for executives and staff, but will boost salaries to compensate — National Post
The memo argued that the public broadcaster’s executives are underpaid, but other non-unionized employees’ salaries are aligned with the market
That initial funding top-up could rise, Carney said.
Carney pledges $150M boost to 'underfunded' CBC — CBC News
Liberal Leader Mark Carney said on Friday that his government would provide an initial $150-million annual funding increase to CBC and Radio-Canada as part of a new mandate for the public broadcaster.
But management and executive compensation is not necessarily going down as a result.
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CBC/Radio-Canada to scrap much-maligned 'performance pay' for managers — CBC News
After a wave of criticism for handing out so-called "performance pay" to managers when it was considering layoffs, CBC/Radio-Canada's board of directors is ending the practice altogether after a third-party review, the corporation said Wednesday.
Please, tell us more about these other public broadcasters in Canada that the CBC’s increase in funding is competing against for comparability?
"We (being Mark Carney, speaking of himself as plural) expect that in the coming years, we will continue to increase that funding until it can be compared to that provided by other public broadcasters." (???)
Setting themselves up for comparison to the BBC.
Setting themselves up for comparison to the BBC.
That’s not a Canadian (or another Canadian) public broadcaster as far as I know…so how/why should the CBC’s wage structure be pegged against or even compared to the BBC in Britain that’s got about a 50% larger population than Canada, where people (more than the 1%-ish in Canada) actually watch the BBC?
I fail to see any difference between excessive pay and excessive bonuses. IMHO no government employee should ever get a bonus.