It took me a few moments to twig onto this, but if Catherine Tait is using an official CBC journalist in a staged event, then how does that elevate CBC’s journalism? Turning a journalist into your propaganda mouthpiece does not make the organization look good. I also thought there were moments where she was reading from a teleprompter.
What's the sense of going on the CBC to ask more people to watch the CBC? If you want to make your point, you go elsewhere to speak to non-CBC watching viewers? But then they don't really live in the real world, do they.
@@holdingpattern245 probably the reason TH-cam cites we can't report their material, being protected by Parody and such. So I guess we blame The Babylon Bee for THAT. LOL
"You can't beg people to trust you." Well, to be fair, she was not begging people to trust the media; she was actually chastising people for not trusting media."
I’m from the U.K.,and the BBC used to produce excellent quality programmes from all genres on a shoe string budget. Much of this was both entertaining and educational. At some point it decided to enter the ratings war, with the commercial “competition” and everything everything went down the toilet. Now the licence fee is mostly there to feed the lifestyle of the executives.
It's mostly there to fund state propaganda on behalf of the CIA and their British offshoots, and beam it straight into the heart of every mouthbreather's living room while they eat their microwave telly dinner and panic about the next mandated thing.
Just like many Brits have no love for the BBC and many Americans DO NOT care for PBS at all. Something about state-funded television. It's been a propaganda tool that was useful in its time for keeping a country together but it gets eventually weaponized against the country and ANYONE who questions the narrative. I wish I could say the for-profit networks weren't spreading the woke narrative, either, but they're all doing this. Disney just seems more egregious because it seemed to be above this in the past but, no, they're all in on it now... Weaponized against the country = constantly pushing for globalism and redefining patriotism as "patriarchal practices by narrow-minded people, ie, bigots." They really are pushing a pseudo-religion that's maintained by corporations headed by people who frankly are half out of their minds. They have to know what they're doing now ends in violence and destruction of people. They've already destroyed the careers of people and tried to silence so many...
"Truth Telling" What on Gods green Earth would the CBC know about that?? Once a trusted, beloved, entertaining source of truth and showcase of talent, now, I check in on them once and a while and I just either want to laugh or cry. Miss my old friend CBC that I grew up with just like my great-grandparents, grand-parents, parents, myself for 50 years and the hockey and base ball games when you were away from the t.v. Sad times indeed, but I feel blessed that I lived in the best era of all time .
One can still tell "the Truth" of a story, but only give one side of it. If Covid has taught us anything, it's that National Broadcasters have become biased mouth pieces, rather than bastions of balanced journalism - just read the teleprompter, & for heavens sake, don't let any Guest slip through the net & deviate from the pre-conceived narrative Sadly this is not restricted to Canada.
My father worked at the CBC for 30 years until the late 80s. It was a decent organization back in the golden days of TV. A family friend who worked there until the early 2000s described the CBC at that point as "not even a third of what it was". Since CBC collects ad revenues... Why are our tax dollars still funding it? If we're paying for it, it should be commercial free. If it's too big to fail, then the cord should be cut at this point.
This little point is what will actually kill that shambling hulk. Why ARE they running ads on a 100% government funded news station? They don't need the money, but they DO need us to think it's a normal, "organic" news station....
CBC never used to be such partisan propaganda. As a kid I loved the CBC. They had a right and left wingers on it but they also had this really cool orange and yellow logo that they... turned red...RED... red for communism now?
@@fandomkiller CBC has no accountability directly with the public that would generate helpful criticism. Their Ombudsman is internal. CRTC won't deal with CBC web postings. Cross Country Checkup avoids the very issues featured in news programs and is carefully controlled. (I remember when anyone could get on and they ran a 10 second broadcast delay.) Every region should have an uncensored town hall once a year which is broadcast. There should also be an independent public survey every couple of years.
Before I comment on what you said I have to recognize the indigenous peoples land I occupy. The Apalachee, Calusa, Colusa, Matecumbe, Pensacola, Seminole, Timucua, Ais, Jeaga, Mayaimi, Ocale, Potano, Tequesta, and Utina. And I have to also show respect for Florida Man who was forced out to make way for the Condo. Now where was I?
#DefundtheCBC Also: I always thought it was weird, we got rid of Peter Mansbrige and hired 4 diverse people to take his place. Are they saying it takes 4 diverse people to do the job of one elderly white male? Oh, and don't get me started on how they treated Don Cherry.
I grew up listening to CBC radio one and two, and learned so much from the excellent shows, felt proud of our accomplishments brought to me daily by the excellent reporters and hosts. Shows were interesting and engaging, funny and heartbreaking. CBC was my constant companion and always the first button on the radio speed dial. I would occasionally even stay up way to late to catch the CBC overnight which featured shows from around the world, which gave me an understanding of the wider world. THEN it all started to head down the tubes. I cannot say when it happened, but slowly the old trusted hosts were replaced with a new generation, the shows cancelled or watered down and the focus moved from the majority to the minority. Now CBC is a battering ram for the WokeWaffen SS and I refuse to Listen anymore. They have poisoned the well, as it were, and driven off the majority of Canadians for a small woke minority who don't even bother to listen to radio anymore, if they ever did. I use to be a staunch supporter of the CBC as I believed that it Did represent a "Canadian" way of looking at things, and that they did represent "Us" in a collective sense through our stories, news, triumphs and tragedies. Now however I do not support the CBC and see it as a giant waste of money. Rather than "cancel' it though, If I were King, I would flush out all the BS (and useless nepotistic appointments) and get it back to core principals of representing the majority if Canadians, actual journalism with all sides of the stories and can the woke agenda. I mourn the loss of our venerable institution.
I have the same view of CBC as you and same opinion. CBC was never perfect but now it is totally captured by the WOKE and the Liberal Party. So sad. But now it is a cancer and should be defunded.
This mirrors my experience very closely. It was a relief when I finally gave myself permission to turn to other sources and resolved to be done with CBC.
Regarding social media supplanting traditional broadcast media... Catherine Tait, basically: "We can't get away with lying anymore, and that makes us sad."
This is a good point. Once upon a time the CBC was necessary to promote Canadian content because they had the resources (camera's/equipment/money) to compete with the big networks. Nowadays, any Canadian with a mid-range cellphone can produce better content that the CBC. Time to go.
Tait lost the narrative. Digital assets provide a far superior payment structure for content creators, than the crtc, or the cbc. The free market and free speech are a thing deleting comments that discuss ideas that could better humanity should be a crime against humanity. Digital assets allow no middlemen to take free money from artists and those that produce and create.
Translation: "I don't like that people can just go to social media and find out what happened and what people are saying for themselves, instead of information being gatekept, filtered, and misrepresented by us. What you see with your eyes is disinformation, what you see from us is journalism." She couldn't have done a better job proving what is wrong with media if she tried. I have a sentimental attachment to the CBC of my youth in the 80's, when it was one of three channels I had (along with CTV and 2&7, which is now Global). But THAT CBC of Friendly Giant, The Beachcombers, and Four on the Floor is LONG gone. When I saw CBC lying about events that I knew damn well what the truth was (because social media), that was it. Government funded doesn't mean objective. Kinda' like in the museum world... The museum I used to work at before Covid announced last year that they got the philanthropic funding to have free admission, and everyone goo-goo'd over it. No no no. All that means is that now they can do irrelevant, boring, incomprehensible, nepotistic art shows nobody cares about with impunity. It doesn't matter if nobody goes to see it, because the admissions part of the budget is covered. CBC doesn't have to worry about "get woke, go broke" because we HAVE to pay for it.
As a Canadian in my 50s, I definitely have fond childhood memories of the mother channel. CBC was the home of Star Trek the original series. Hockey Night in Canada and the CFL. CBC was the place for Canadian comedy. And it was world class. Today I have no interest. The shows are modern woke, the news is modern "faux" news.
Hockey Night in Canada was great. I’d watch it from Buffalo with our rabbit ear antenna. The picture was fuzzy but we watched anyway. Dick Irvin was great.
Thank you for posting this. I'm a Canadian that hasn't watched CBC or any of their products for a long time. My decision to boycott them has been entirely due to the fact that they are so biased in their reporting that its almost like being jacked into the Prime Minister's Office (PMO). If their news products were the least bit objective, I'd get onboard right away. Hey, I'm like you. I'm a proud Canadian and would love to support our actors and locally produced products. Catherine, how about dumping the incessant woke narrative and just do some journalism.
She couldn't do that, NOBODY in msm can. They are owned by WEF and the woke corporate NWO. Everything is tweaked from on high when it comes to certain topics - exposed by TH-cam compilations showing the LOCKSTEP type talking points like "Nobody is above the law" regarding ANYTHING President Trump did and then playing endless defense for 'mostly peaceful protests' while buildings burn in the background! That's a tough job, like being Biden's press secretary - basically impossible. But when you're marching orders come from the WEF Nuthouse, what chance does anyone have? You can hardly go rogue, when you're govt. funded and your govt. sends representatives to UN run meetings that plan to dissolve your border, currency, culture and way of life because they want to re-imagine our world into Logans Run meets the Terminator. I blame 'the elite' who put together the world/global bodies as an attempt to upstage God, cause they weren't popular as a child, or worse.... They are getting their assess handed to them now and are in a REAL PANIC cause - despite us being under mind control of psyche warfare chiefs for our entire lives, and poisoned on every possible level, we the people STILL endure and even thrive (thus the extermination plan) and figured it out awhile back - "NEVER interrupt your enemy when they are busy destroying themselves". They do a better job than any counter movement possible could We gave let them have ALL THEY WANT - FILL YOUR BOOTS style with policy etc and it's all collapsing in on itself at record speed, especially since about a century of careful painstaking planning went into it all and we have only really just started to take interest in the past decade and on mass since they started acting as Dictators. Someone needs to tell them that what Joe Rogan's DMT crowd call "machine elves' are DEMONS and that is who runs our 'elite' and 'royalty' since inception. It's all so 'impressive' when you're selected and boosted by a disembodied entity that strokes your ego and fast tracks your worldly 'success'...for a time. It's all so exciting - but they don't tell you it has an expiry date, and the courting period soon goes from stroking/boosting to demands, then threats and terrorizing them and in turn us. I feel sorry for ALL the 'elite' DUPES and everyone down the line, right to us regular people. Seems an impossible situation that has no resolution and then I remember that God KNOWS what he's doing. He's USING this evil as a LESSON and a form of FRICTION to make us all righteous once again - to being his children again in our relative purity - manifesting our TRUE YEARING for Freedom, Peace, Love, Joy and Creativity - which is really ALL anyone wants - once the programming is put aside.... And putting aside ALL THAT IS FAKE (like fake news) is what is taking place - ORGANICALLY and in a way and at a pace that EVERYONE can understand, directly and EXPERIENTIALLY. God is in control, has a great sense of humour and justice and is going to see to it that HEAVEN on Earth is restored through our AWAKENING to WHAT TRULY MATTERS beyond all the artificial projections/distractions. We are being brought BACK to our TRUE selves, all of us in different ways - on either side and the role of evil and good - mater not. He USES evil to get good to be good and then turn evil to good - and we all rejoice together in the end because we will ALL CHOOSE GOOD - in the recognition that evil was a mirage, a false projection ONTO Creation and left behind forevermore! God Bless Everyone!
Like the BBC, perhaps it's more than her job's worth to deviate from the narrative that has been dictated? Independent journalism is all well & good, as long as it doesn't deviate from the pre-set agenda.
Many years ago in the days of Mr. Dressup my childhood days there was a need for a government funded tv. Now it is unnecessary and cause harm to the rest media. Time to dismantle and sell it off.
If I could make one law about the CBC it would be to require them to start and end each news segment by reminding people "This is the truth from the State media". And that at the end of each entertainment show produced by the CBC, "If you didn't like this show remember it doesn't matter because our funding is mandated by law."
I like how Tata explained exactly why the CBC is losing trust, without realizing it. Yes, more good journalism (which is what we have from social media), and what is debunking CBC DISinformation.
Mounted RCMP: *crushes elderly native woman using a walker at an unpopular protest* CBC Reporter: What do you think is undermining trust in public institutions? Mounted RCMP: *removes Darth Vader helmet* It's a real mystery. We serve the public. CBC Reporter: Correct. We pride ourselves in truth and fairness. Elderly native woman: *footage lost*
I used to be a staunch supporter of CBC until recently. Since about 2015 I noticed that their content became incredibly far left and they began getting rid of my favourite journalists that were part of their production such as Rex Murphy. My disgust peaked during the trucker convoy when what they were reporting on air was so different from the huge amount of "on-the-ground" video that was being produced. If you were to just listen to their reporting you would think that nightly riots were going on in Ottawa. Unfortunately, I'm now one of their many critics. I sure hope their ship can be turned around because it isn't unbiased journalism like it once was.
I do remember it starting shortly before Trump, but accelerating very rapidly during that time, to be fair pretty much every mainstream source has been collapsing in credibility since then, but it's weird to see it happen with these guys who once held themselves to such a high standard.
I too was absolutely disgusted by the complete and total lies they "reported" about one of the most peaceful protests I've seen in my 40 years. It was reprehensible.
Back in the mid 90s, before streaming, if you lived in a rural area, the only way to get television was a C Band dish. I lived in such a rural area, so I bought a C Band disk kit, cable, a tuner, a 4"pipe, some cement and a post hole digger and put in a system. Nothing was scrambled then and one of the first networks we received was the CBC. You are right; many of the shows weren't that good, but we had small children and found a CBC show we all really liked, "Wind At My Back". Sort of a Canadian, VC Andrews, Little House on the Prairie, Waltons, kind of show and enjoyed it while it lasted. And then CBC decided to scramble their signal and refused to let folks in the US watch their shows. It didn't make a lot of sense to me.
In the early 80s any of the premium movie channels out of the states weren't scrambled so our rural community association in British Columbia bought a C band dish, built a small broadcast tower and broadcast HBO over the air up and down the valley. Not exactly legal but they got away with it for a few years.
Great video and totally analogous to the ABC here in Australia. I think that the lack of trust in the media and particularly institutions like the CBC and ABC is driven by a critical mass of activists, not journalists or content creaters, who are attracted to (and self selected by) these institutions. The trust erodes when the majority of content reflects their left-wing biases, either by infusing opinion in the programming or by omission where newsworthy events that may "harm their side" is not reported. It cannot be helped as the "activism" is manifest in every fibre of their being and also seen as morally virtuous. Trust further erodes when alternative media sources that you turn to are then attacked ad hominin by the very same institutions that are bleeding viewers.
I am Australian too. I grew up on the ABC in the 80's and they had heaps of good local shows in those days. Lots of comedies that created most of our major comedy stars today from shows like: The D Generation, Australia Your'e Standing In It, The Big Gig, Front LIne, etc. They seem to have lost thier way somewhere along the line.
Ultimately organization's like the CBC and ABC cannot be anything but the propaganda arms of their respective governments, even if they are in theory independent. This is because their finances are ultimately controlled by those governments, for example, the UK's BBC is funded by mandatory television licences. If you want television in the UK you effectively have to pay a subscription to the BBC. This creates 2 consequences, first the BBC does not have to serve its consumers, in the sense of broadcasting programming that paying customers want to watch, because those customers have to pay in order to access other company's programming. Secondly, and more importantly, it means that the British government, even if it lacks any de jure authority over the BBC, can kill the BBC any time they wish, by simply repealing the law requiring said television licenses, thus depriving the BBC of its funding. This means that even without any de jure authority, the British government is the de facto master of the BBC, as the BBC knows it cannot survive opposing them. The BBC must tow the line to appease the British government.
You really hit the nail on the head by noting the importance of "omission" of news stories and events. To that I will also add the way the CBC chooses to frame stories they do report. For example, back when Hulk Hogan was suing Gawker, the CBC did choose to report on the story. However, their framing for it was to present Peter Thiel - the man funding the lawsuit - as a frightening "Svengali"-like figure with an axe to grind against Gawker. I asked myself why they never ran a story talking about how asking for legal redress had gotten so out of the reach of a normal person, that even an extremely wealthy and famous person like Hulk Hogan had to ask for help from a man with the wealth of a small nation, just to proceed with a lawsuit to protect his privacy and reputation. That would be an angle that "served the public interest". Instead, the CBC ran with a story angle that served their own interests. Whenever the mainstream media is criticized, they circle the wagons and never admit to any mistakes, and that quickly erodes any trust or good will that remains in their audience. Anyways, like you said, it's often what is _missing_ that is even more important than what is actually there, and the CBC has gaping chasms of important content that they will not touch, simply because it does not serve their own interests (i.e. activism).
I mostly agree, the issue is the "Woke" are cultists and thus a part of the right and anti-freedom. The real left is happy to call all out, even themselves...
Well, I live in Calgary (because I can't afford to live someplace decent :P) and I scarcely give the CBC much thought anymore because I feel that they are completely out of touch with large swaths of Canadians. I mean, they can crow about diversity and occasionally produce a bonafide hit like "Schitt's Creek", but the network represents a narrow cross-section of the population. Canada is a geographically large nation with a comparatively small population. My thoughts on them is that they represent the sensibilities of the political and cultural "elites" that live in the Ottawa/Downtown Toronto/Montreal triangle and not those of my home province so I by and large ignore them.
schitts Creek was only funny for 2 seasons max. After that it became insufferable crap with a typical Hollywood agenda. Noone I know ever finished the show to the end.
@@MagnifiedGiant oh. I had no idea. The Red Green show was broadcast in the states on PBS. That is our crappy, public , taxpayer funded station. The only decent shows on PBS are imports from the UK or Canada. I only know about Last Will and Temperament from TH-cam. Sorry for my ignorance.
We have hated the cbc way before Trump. Most of us having ignored the cbc except for beach commers. We noticed during the harper years, how bad they are. Its just gotten worse.
Speaking as a Canadian actor, knowing the amount of American shows that film up here, you would think CBC would make more shows. It would give more Canadian actors a chance to grow and compete with the US. But instead... we don't. We don't promote new Canadian actors, writers, or directors. We let the US control our entertainment, and it's ridiculous.
CBC does not know how to be an entertainment network but I still support its efforts to fund as much Canadian content as it does. I don't agree with their choices but that's another thing.
@Call me Chato I can respect that. But I feel they do not even attempt their stated goals. They do not even try to promote emerging Canadian Artists. No film, music, artists, writers, anything. Even the radio that has to play a certain amount of Canadian content will just play the Tragically Hip over and over. I wish there was more of an opportunity to young artists to create in Canada. But it really feels restrictive. But maybe I'm missing something? I'm open to being ignorant to some aspects, maybe I've missed some grants or something.
basically the USA and Canada made a deal way back that Canadian performers would have full access to the U.S. market and that U.S. film productions would have access to the Canadian market IF a certain amount of filming was done in Canada, and this is why BC and rarely even Toronto are film locations. Imagine a cleaner safer NYC there's your toronto shoot, how about China town any time or mountains oceans BC can pass for Hawaii in the summer or any wintry clime too. Find mountains with snow near L.A. Go ahead. I dare you.
@Quizmaster China I know that. But you would think someone like the CBC would notice "Hey! The US films a lot uo here, maybe there is a reason?" And start working with locals to make programing instead of locals having to hope they didn't already cast everything in LA and that their auditions are just the formality.
Cracked me up, having been on the inside of the beast your insights into the CBC were both hilarious and sad. It accounts for the CBC content being so out of touch with many Canadians, but it does make one despair for any attempt to fix the situation. Chato for CBC Prez!! Well at least your tour begging for viewers might actually work!
As an American, I still owe Canada a BIG ONE! Canada brought us SCTV and creative greats such as: John Candy, Eugene Levy, Rick Moranis, Dave Thomas and Martin Short just to name a few. SCTV was what I consider, the nucleus of my generation's golden entertainment. I'm sure many could expound upon this but I had to express my love for quality comedy genius.
Greg, get where you are coming from. Growing up on the Michigan side of the Sault, we had 1 American and 2 Canadian channels. Without CBC and CTV our entertainment options would be limited. Thanks Canada, for sharing!
Ah those early SCTV days produced in Edmonton, Alberta at ITV. A very 'Canadian' show, always slightly awkward but never as bad as a CBC production. It did improve a bit when it moved to Toronna with a better budget.
Correct @satantheclown. From personal experience, the chance that TV sets on USAF bases in North Dakota were tuned to CBC stations in Brandon or Winnepeg was probably greater than 60% in the 70s and 80s. Monty Python, excellent British series, hockey, etc. Even curling can be mesmerizing when one is snowed in.
You're writing and delivering some of your best material on this channel, Paul. I literally laughed out loud several times during this video. Made my Friday evening.
In Sweden it's worse, they get around 1.2 billion CAD in funds from the government to produce propaganda for the regime. Note that we're roughly 1/4 of Canadas population.
Your video is the first with “CBC” referenced in the title that I even bothered to take a chance on. Nicely done! You captured very politely how useless the organization has become and is now essentially a sad and pathetic propaganda machine for a government which no longer sees its’ population as being capable of intelligent thought or critical thinking. Since they can’t recognize it at all, I guess it is not a surprise. Were it not for misappropriation of resources through taxation, their version of “truth” wouldn’t even make the cut in an old “B” movie.
The BBC no longer produces content that appeals to British people, they all jumped onto the woke bandwagon while overpaying pompous gits to piss us off.
I was into shortwave radio as a kid. Radio Canada International was, by far, what I listened to the most. Mostly because the reception was so reliable compared with other stations around the world, but also due to the cheerful personalities on air and how entertaining and informative the programs were. They shared the same mailing address as the CBC Northern Service, which beamed network programming to areas that were sparsely populated and had no local radio stations (for us south-of-the-border listeners who were not the target audience but were still able to tune in, this was our only exposure to Canadian domestic fare, as they often rebroadcast the audio portion of TV shows, too). Apparently, people writing in would get confused and assume that RCI and the CBCNS were one and the same. This prompted the RCI announcers to repeat _ad nauseum_ on the air that while they were housed in the same building, RCI and the CBCNS were entirely separate facilities, so when writing to one or the other please specify in the address which service you were writing to. They could not stress enough that they had nothing to do with each other. I got to see what the RCI logo looked like in my return correspondence. It was a cleverly designed depiction of a transmitting tower with concentric circles radiating out of it but contained within the outline of a maple leaf. Despite all their protestations, guess what? That beautiful logo was soon replaced with the ugly CBC logo. Separate, indeed.🤣
@@richardhuppertz3487 SCTV was produced in Toronto and southern Ontario for the first two seasons and then moved to ITV. It first aired on Global and then went to CBC.
I grew up in rural Saskatchewan and my only choices as a kid were CBC and CTV and a few snowy stations I could almost get if the weather was right. The worst weekend was Telemiracle weekend because that's all I had to watch on TV. I was so happy the year we got a VCR...
For many years I drove between Alaska and the US midwest and had always looked forward to finding a few CBC programs that I particularly loved while dreading a few that I found boring and cringe-worthy...though the last few years I'd pretty much given up searching for anything worth listening to and I'm sure you know why; no matter what the subject matter of the news item it would invariably castigate and chastise the listener for the patriarchy, colonialism, and climate. On the few occasions when I would tune in it became a game to see how many minutes it would be before those 3 shiboleths would be broached....sometimes it wouldn't even take that long.
I was a regular CBC radio listener in the past. I watched some things on CBC Gem here and there. They are so ideologically driven now I have completely stopped these past few years. Yes, during the pandemic I tuned into the daily briefings like most as we were all eager initally for any and all news in relation. Pretty soon politics got involved and their bipartisan selves pushed me away. They are a parody of themselves now, and I have no interest in returning until they take a more balanced approach to news and programming.
I doubt CBC will come around like that. They are paid by the Federal Liberals to promote Liberals agenda. Yes, I know how cynical that sounds, but it's true unfortunately.
oooh, so they became a canadian version of CNN/russia today, huh? as a south american,i ahd N O idea "aboot" this cbc thing, and was confused for yall's hatred
CBC love hate relationship is the kindest thing anyone has ever said about that joke of a network outside of the network hacks there. Another excellent critique and thank you Mr Chatto.
The fact that a piece of my day goes towards funding the cbc makes me twitch. State funded entertainment is one thing, state funded news is straight out of totalitarian states. If cbc cannot compete for advertisers and eyeballs, then i would never be happy with funding it.
HI Paul. I'm from Montreal, and everything you said about our feelings towards CBC shows was spot on! I can remember watching so many shows as a kid like The Beachcombers, Tommy Hunter Show (because of my parents), Wayne & Shuster, The Littlest Hobo (on CTV) and so many others: if I walked into a room with a TV on, I knew immediately a TV show was Canadian based on that "feel" you got from quality, or the same 4-6 actors you might see on CBC and/or CTV. Oh, and as far as 7:28, Yes! Anita is lovely, and well spoken (please don't hash tag metoo me). 🙃
@@icitrom And can you find it on CBC's streaming app? I couldn't. I managed to find it somewhere on Amazon Prime, but I couldn't buy or watch due to geo-fencing. Like, wtf??
I worked as a PA in Toronto in the 80's and I remember a fellow PA telling me about a production that had to re-shoot a lot of footage because it was "too good and looked American".
I understand this, doing something too good could encourage executives to raise their quality standards without increasing the budget and production technicians would have to work more.
- She wants the CBC to counter 'disinformation' with more quality journalism. She's absolutely right but she's also utterly incapable of recognising that she cannot deliver that content when her CBC journalists are often the source of the 'disinformation'. - She says the CBC should reflect Canadians. She's right - and the CBC does reflect Canada and Canadians - but she is incapable of seeing that her 'mirror' is one of those carnival sorts that grossly distorts the image of the object in front of it. Drag shows simply engorge the image of how important that is to Canadians while also taking money away from other productions that might have something to offer. News output that remains excoriating about a former President of ANOTHER COUNTRY is shameful, when we have institutions that need close scrutiny here. I used to wake up with my radio alarm set to the local CBC Radio 1 station. A great way to discover local issues and Canadian music (I particularly enjoyed when they played Astrocolor 'Push Too Far'). However, over the years, more and more segments featuring activists, advocates, and students from one of the two universities in town describing their mental health battles, meant that I was forced to retune. Now I listen to CTV News. It ditches the activists for commercials (not much of an improvement), but retains the biased news coverage and denies me discovering Candian culture. Thank heavens for social media to help me discover what's going on.
It is sad to hear what is or has happened to Canada. It has been cut down to producing and supporting dry sterile entertainment steeped in cultural wokism and playing it 'safe' and pushing 'the political narrative'. Just like many other parts of the world, including my Singapore. As a person of 60, my growing-up years was heavily influenced 99.9% of the time by the West. USA's TV, movies and music entertainment has always been such a beautiful vibrant spectrum. Always fresh and always something for everyone. It was a time of experimentation and creativity was the order of the day. I can relate so closely to you given our age and shared love for a lot of cartoons, animation, graphic design, technology, PC ( yes I did follow some of your content in the earlier years when you did a lot of computer tech) comics, movie taste and likely music too. It was to such an extent someone who spend time with me from the USA or the West, they would think talking to this Asian Man, I was someone born and lived in the States and not someone from Singapore who saw the world and learn to embrace the best of what it can offer especially the West. In the last decade, freedom is no longer true to its definition. It's almost lifeless, boring, UNIMAGINATIVE, Uncreative ... damn, I could think of many negative words to add but you get my point and I do not want to feel more sad than I need to upon reflecting. The 'well' has just about dry up in 2023 culturally. What surprise me even more is how FAST Canada has sped up toward this WOKE nightmare passed the US.
Mr Dress Up, The Friendly Giant, and the Beach Combers my favorites of all time. Hockey night in Canada. As a kid growing up on the east coast I never made it past the first period before I fell asleep. Now The Nature Of Things, Dave Suzuki was my child hood hero. I moved to Vancouver and worked construction. We were working in Kitsilano directly across the street from his house. One fine beautiful Vancouver morning I spotted Dave taking out the garbage so I took the opportunity to cross the street to meet my childhood hero. I walked up to him to say hi and held my hand out and he in return told me to Fu k off. I'm still tore up to this very day. CBC blows chunks and Dave you hurt me, you shattered my dreams, you really hurt me.
Used to have CBC radio as my alarm in the morning. Got sick of waking up to being informed that my toxic masculinity and/or white supremacy made me problematic for simply existing. As an immigrant to Canada, it made me feel very unwelcome that the state broadcaster hated me simply for my race and gender. Maybe it wouldn't have been so bad if they'd ever questioned the validity of these concepts, but they didn't. They simply regurgitated them as gospel.
Why is trust gone? My brief 1 year internship at WVUB, our college PBS tv/radio station, our "executive news director" would walk over to the AP news wire printer, pull of 10 pages, then just go read it on air, verbatim, for 30 minutes. That's why. News isn't news anymore.
People at CBC/Radio-Canada know that if the Conservative Party has a majority in Parliament, there will big cuts in their budget. That explains a lot about what is broadcasted.
Love your experienced industry viewpoint, Paul. Fascinating to hear what it was like and glad to see that you're pretty open minded about things ....but naively so.
I'm an American who lived in Canada briefly, in Ottawa no less. Can confirm that most Canadians watch CTV except on Mondays when the CBC hosted Hockey Night in Canada. This video confirms that not much has changed at the CBC since my Ottawa days at the turn of the millennium.
Living in Toronto, it slowly dawned on me (I'm not that clever) that the CBC is the self-serving arm of the Toronto based writers, producers, actors, who know they are the direct beneficiaries of tax payer. What they produce, it's quality or creativity is entirely secondary to the basic imperative of just getting something funded. They spin this as 'precarious' without questioning whether the vast majority of these projects should be funded in the first place. I don't say defund CBC, I would be more radical and say no more public funding of scripted TV productions and stick just to news and HNIC. Maybe more resouces for news and no more Mr. D's.
When Madame Taint spit out the "I want everyone at CBC to be proud of truth telling" I choked on my poutine... Gone are the days of CBC journalism that didn't omit the unpleasant or turn a blind eye because of political hegemony. Like the time Newfoundland premier Joey Smallwood was mobbed by disgruntled fisherman after the cod moratorium & said on Nolton Nash's live TV broadcast "What do you want me to do about it By'? I didn't take the fish outta da goddamned ocean!" You would never hear that today. lol
In Germany we have a very similar approach (it is called Öffentlich rechtlich, which means it is public law). It is not openly governmental funded, but the fee is collected by law and you get imprisoned if you do not pay. We also have more and more people that do not watch this. Funfact: We have worldwide at least one of the most expensive Broadcasts for our small country. #DefundtheÖRR
Waiting for an episode of Chatoland Who's Who. 😀 I can see your residual respect for the CBC peeking out but at this point, the CBC has eroded all the goodwill it earned with me way back in the day.
I grew up watching the CBC and lived long enough to see our beloved public broadcaster drink the Poison Chalice of political allegiance. The really sad part for me was when I noticed that the CBC did not even gag on the evil brew... as if they had been drinking this stuff for quite some time! 😮
Nice video :) As for me... 1990s: member of the Friends of Canadian Broadcasting, and supported the movement to keep the CBC going. 2023: Defund the CBC! Why? So many reasons why, but putting out clear propaganda that Russia was supporting the Trucker Convoy was shameful.
Thanks for being a part of The Frantics. My buddy Brad (RIP) and I would reenact the show in French class, and then talk about another show from PBS - THE Operation, which if you don't know was basically very graphic, hour long videos showing complex surgical procedures, with VO by the surgeons. Anyway, we would draw stuff based on skits from The Frantics, and the occasional flayed quadriceps, in our Hilroys and then get scolded by whatever passed for a French teacher in the early 90s in Nova Scotia.
I was just thinking about how PBS used to have some real quality shows, like The Operation and Nova. I know Nova *technically* still exists but the more recent shows I've seen were dumbed-down sensationalist drivel, therefore dead in my mind.
As a Canadian Film technician my one and only experience working for the CBC would’ve been laughable if it wasn’t deeply disturbing. I watched one of the myriad of CDC executives look at me dumbfounded when I tried to explain the issue of clearance of art o on a film set. I just shook my head and did what I was told in the end but it was fascinating when the same executive got into so much trouble over the hockey night in Canada ringtone
It took me a few moments to twig onto this, but if Catherine Tait is using an official CBC journalist in a staged event, then how does that elevate CBC’s journalism? Turning a journalist into your propaganda mouthpiece does not make the organization look good. I also thought there were moments where she was reading from a teleprompter.
That's the CBC being CBC. Whenever they "interview" a Canadian Government official it's the same thing. They are PR events.
What's the sense of going on the CBC to ask more people to watch the CBC? If you want to make your point, you go elsewhere to speak to non-CBC watching viewers? But then they don't really live in the real world, do they.
You didn’t say what CBC stands for. I’m guessing it’s Center for Bullsh*t Control?
@@savageworks exactly
The CBC is fem controlled. Why would I give a s**t whether it succeeds or not?
Funny how they all blame social media without any introspection as to their own faults and lack of integrity.
They know. But their first and last instinct is to protect their new religion
I think that's the joke.
@@CallMeChato so it's a parody news network, honestly I should have known, the signs were all there
@@holdingpattern245 probably the reason TH-cam cites we can't report their material, being protected by Parody and such. So I guess we blame The Babylon Bee for THAT. LOL
Well, they can't admit that their funded directly by the Liberals.
"You can't beg people to trust you."
Well, to be fair, she was not begging people to trust the media; she was actually chastising people for not trusting media."
This was not much of a Q & A reporting. Its like SBF interviewing SBF to trust him. What does trump have to do with canada?
@@xcen1 It's called Trump Derangement Syndrome, and it afflicts most leftists. As you can imagine, the CBC has an incurable case of it.
I’m from the U.K.,and the BBC used to produce excellent quality programmes from all genres on a shoe string budget. Much of this was both entertaining and educational. At some point it decided to enter the ratings war, with the commercial “competition” and everything everything went down the toilet. Now the licence fee is mostly there to feed the lifestyle of the executives.
It's mostly there to fund state propaganda on behalf of the CIA and their British offshoots, and beam it straight into the heart of every mouthbreather's living room while they eat their microwave telly dinner and panic about the next mandated thing.
I burst out in to laughter at 8 minutes. The Trumpster lives rent free in these peoples heads.
"We legislate creativity; we have joke quotas!" That got a good laugh out of me!
As a Canadian I can confirm I have NO love for the CBC... at all.
Just like many Brits have no love for the BBC and many Americans DO NOT care for PBS at all.
Something about state-funded television. It's been a propaganda tool that was useful in its time for keeping a country together but it gets eventually weaponized against the country and ANYONE who questions the narrative.
I wish I could say the for-profit networks weren't spreading the woke narrative, either, but they're all doing this. Disney just seems more egregious because it seemed to be above this in the past but, no, they're all in on it now...
Weaponized against the country = constantly pushing for globalism and redefining patriotism as "patriarchal practices by narrow-minded people, ie, bigots." They really are pushing a pseudo-religion that's maintained by corporations headed by people who frankly are half out of their minds. They have to know what they're doing now ends in violence and destruction of people. They've already destroyed the careers of people and tried to silence so many...
I love the CBC
as a Canadian
Hope you enjoy paying for it.
We have a similar problem with the ABC in Australia.
"Truth Telling" What on Gods green Earth would the CBC know about that??
Once a trusted, beloved, entertaining source of truth and showcase of talent, now, I check in on them once and a while and I just either want to laugh or cry. Miss my old friend CBC that I grew up with just like my great-grandparents, grand-parents, parents, myself for 50 years and the hockey and base ball games when you were away from the t.v.
Sad times indeed, but I feel blessed that I lived in the best era of all time .
One can still tell "the Truth" of a story, but only give one side of it.
If Covid has taught us anything, it's that National Broadcasters have become biased mouth pieces, rather than bastions of balanced journalism - just read the teleprompter, & for heavens sake, don't let any Guest slip through the net & deviate from the pre-conceived narrative
Sadly this is not restricted to Canada.
Nobody trusts their government. Nobody trusts journalists. How in hell do they expect us to trust state funded journalists?!? 😅
Keep your stick on the Ice.
False. Liberals trust the govs :) As all commies do.
i blocked them utube comments disabled? lol what a joke
😂😂😂😂😂😂
They don't care if you trust them. That's the whole point.
My father worked at the CBC for 30 years until the late 80s. It was a decent organization back in the golden days of TV. A family friend who worked there until the early 2000s described the CBC at that point as "not even a third of what it was". Since CBC collects ad revenues... Why are our tax dollars still funding it? If we're paying for it, it should be commercial free. If it's too big to fail, then the cord should be cut at this point.
This little point is what will actually kill that shambling hulk. Why ARE they running ads on a 100% government funded news station?
They don't need the money, but they DO need us to think it's a normal, "organic" news station....
Because how else could the PMO funnel its message directly to the people!?
@@eblatz80 what about the "bailout" money they gave to media. Helped give him a free ride with them too.
@@estoguy lol, oh I hate Trudy and the CBC…Bail out, pay off, whatever!
As a Canadian, ever since I have understood what paying taxes is, I've wanted the CBC to lose its funding.
i blocked them utube comments disabled? lol what a joke. i'm 5 year vet. they want an echo chamber
CBC never used to be such partisan propaganda. As a kid I loved the CBC. They had a right and left wingers on it but they also had this really cool orange and yellow logo that they... turned red...RED... red for communism now?
@@fandomkiller CBC has no accountability directly with the public that would generate helpful criticism. Their Ombudsman is internal. CRTC won't deal with CBC web postings. Cross Country Checkup avoids the very issues featured in news programs and is carefully controlled. (I remember when anyone could get on and they ran a 10 second broadcast delay.)
Every region should have an uncensored town hall once a year which is broadcast. There should also be an independent public survey every couple of years.
but even the other stations like ctv are receiving subsidies. the subsidies are the problem.
@@antoniodesousa9723 Want some money? Just report the 'truth'. Want to keep getting more, tell more 'truth'.
Want to lose it, tell the truth.
I appreciate you taking your time to point out what the CBC has become , thank you
Before I comment on what you said I have to recognize the indigenous peoples land I occupy. The Apalachee, Calusa, Colusa, Matecumbe, Pensacola, Seminole, Timucua, Ais, Jeaga, Mayaimi, Ocale, Potano, Tequesta, and Utina. And I have to also show respect for Florida Man who was forced out to make way for the Condo.
Now where was I?
#DefundtheCBC
Also: I always thought it was weird, we got rid of Peter Mansbrige and hired 4 diverse people to take his place. Are they saying it takes 4 diverse people to do the job of one elderly white male?
Oh, and don't get me started on how they treated Don Cherry.
Yes. Yes it does, or Three women.
The fact that Rex Murphy was side lined was the real tell tale I thought.
I grew up listening to CBC radio one and two, and learned so much from the excellent shows, felt proud of our accomplishments brought to me daily by the excellent reporters and hosts. Shows were interesting and engaging, funny and heartbreaking. CBC was my constant companion and always the first button on the radio speed dial. I would occasionally even stay up way to late to catch the CBC overnight which featured shows from around the world, which gave me an understanding of the wider world. THEN it all started to head down the tubes. I cannot say when it happened, but slowly the old trusted hosts were replaced with a new generation, the shows cancelled or watered down and the focus moved from the majority to the minority. Now CBC is a battering ram for the WokeWaffen SS and I refuse to Listen anymore. They have poisoned the well, as it were, and driven off the majority of Canadians for a small woke minority who don't even bother to listen to radio anymore, if they ever did. I use to be a staunch supporter of the CBC as I believed that it Did represent a "Canadian" way of looking at things, and that they did represent "Us" in a collective sense through our stories, news, triumphs and tragedies. Now however I do not support the CBC and see it as a giant waste of money. Rather than "cancel' it though, If I were King, I would flush out all the BS (and useless nepotistic appointments) and get it back to core principals of representing the majority if Canadians, actual journalism with all sides of the stories and can the woke agenda. I mourn the loss of our venerable institution.
I have the same view of CBC as you and same opinion. CBC was never perfect but now it is totally captured by the WOKE and the Liberal Party. So sad. But now it is a cancer and should be defunded.
This mirrors my experience very closely. It was a relief when I finally gave myself permission to turn to other sources and resolved to be done with CBC.
Regarding social media supplanting traditional broadcast media... Catherine Tait, basically: "We can't get away with lying anymore, and that makes us sad."
exactly! independent people telling the truth hurts their business model.
"Wokewaffen!" I'm still laughing at this one.
The Leftwaffe
Just to add, Chato produces better more entertaining content than the entirety of the CBC. Yes, really.
You are too kind. Thank you.
This is a good point. Once upon a time the CBC was necessary to promote Canadian content because they had the resources (camera's/equipment/money) to compete with the big networks.
Nowadays, any Canadian with a mid-range cellphone can produce better content that the CBC. Time to go.
@@cellularpeptidecake Conservatives budget cut in the 90s. Brief campaign to donate to the CBC. LOL
Tait lost the narrative. Digital assets provide a far superior payment structure for content creators, than the crtc, or the cbc. The free market and free speech are a thing deleting comments that discuss ideas that could better humanity should be a crime against humanity.
Digital assets allow no middlemen to take free money from artists and those that produce and create.
@@CallMeChato Dude, you could piss in a toilet and film it and it'd be more entertaining. Yeah, disturbing, but hey...
Translation: "I don't like that people can just go to social media and find out what happened and what people are saying for themselves, instead of information being gatekept, filtered, and misrepresented by us. What you see with your eyes is disinformation, what you see from us is journalism." She couldn't have done a better job proving what is wrong with media if she tried. I have a sentimental attachment to the CBC of my youth in the 80's, when it was one of three channels I had (along with CTV and 2&7, which is now Global). But THAT CBC of Friendly Giant, The Beachcombers, and Four on the Floor is LONG gone. When I saw CBC lying about events that I knew damn well what the truth was (because social media), that was it. Government funded doesn't mean objective. Kinda' like in the museum world... The museum I used to work at before Covid announced last year that they got the philanthropic funding to have free admission, and everyone goo-goo'd over it. No no no. All that means is that now they can do irrelevant, boring, incomprehensible, nepotistic art shows nobody cares about with impunity. It doesn't matter if nobody goes to see it, because the admissions part of the budget is covered. CBC doesn't have to worry about "get woke, go broke" because we HAVE to pay for it.
As a Canadian in my 50s, I definitely have fond childhood memories of the mother channel.
CBC was the home of Star Trek the original series. Hockey Night in Canada and the CFL. CBC was the place for Canadian comedy. And it was world class.
Today I have no interest. The shows are modern woke, the news is modern "faux" news.
Sounds like our BBC.
Me too
you list one of CBC's greatest accomplishments as hosting Star Trek (a US show) ???
@@RedroomStudios Yeah the bar is so low today, simply resyndicating GOOD (unwoke) TV that everyone loves WOULD make you a good channel.
Hockey Night in Canada was great. I’d watch it from Buffalo with our rabbit ear antenna. The picture was fuzzy but we watched anyway. Dick Irvin was great.
CBC is Canada's ministry of truth
Thank you for posting this. I'm a Canadian that hasn't watched CBC or any of their products for a long time. My decision to boycott them has been entirely due to the fact that they are so biased in their reporting that its almost like being jacked into the Prime Minister's Office (PMO). If their news products were the least bit objective, I'd get onboard right away. Hey, I'm like you. I'm a proud Canadian and would love to support our actors and locally produced products. Catherine, how about dumping the incessant woke narrative and just do some journalism.
She couldn't do that, NOBODY in msm can.
They are owned by WEF and the woke corporate NWO.
Everything is tweaked from on high when it comes to certain
topics - exposed by TH-cam compilations showing the
LOCKSTEP type talking points like "Nobody is above the law"
regarding ANYTHING President Trump did and then playing
endless defense for 'mostly peaceful protests' while buildings
burn in the background!
That's a tough job, like being Biden's press secretary - basically impossible.
But when you're marching orders come from the WEF Nuthouse,
what chance does anyone have?
You can hardly go rogue, when you're govt. funded and your
govt. sends representatives to UN run meetings that plan to
dissolve your border, currency, culture and way of life because
they want to re-imagine our world into Logans Run meets
the Terminator.
I blame 'the elite' who put together the world/global bodies as
an attempt to upstage God, cause they weren't popular as a child,
or worse....
They are getting their assess handed to them now and are in a REAL PANIC
cause - despite us being under mind control of psyche warfare chiefs
for our entire lives, and poisoned on every possible level, we the people
STILL endure and even thrive (thus the extermination plan) and
figured it out awhile back - "NEVER interrupt your enemy when they are
busy destroying themselves".
They do a better job than any counter movement possible could
We gave let them have ALL THEY WANT - FILL YOUR BOOTS style
with policy etc and it's all collapsing in on itself at record speed,
especially since about a century of careful painstaking planning
went into it all and we have only really just started to take interest
in the past decade and on mass since they started acting as Dictators.
Someone needs to tell them that what Joe Rogan's DMT crowd
call "machine elves' are DEMONS and that is who runs our
'elite' and 'royalty' since inception.
It's all so 'impressive' when you're selected and boosted
by a disembodied entity that strokes your ego and fast tracks
your worldly 'success'...for a time.
It's all so exciting - but they don't tell you it has an expiry date,
and the courting period soon goes from stroking/boosting to
demands, then threats and terrorizing them and in turn us.
I feel sorry for ALL the 'elite' DUPES and everyone down the line,
right to us regular people. Seems an impossible situation that
has no resolution and then I remember that God KNOWS what
he's doing.
He's USING this evil as a LESSON and a form of FRICTION to
make us all righteous once again - to being his children again
in our relative purity - manifesting our TRUE YEARING for
Freedom, Peace, Love, Joy and Creativity - which is really
ALL anyone wants - once the programming is put aside....
And putting aside ALL THAT IS FAKE (like fake news)
is what is taking place - ORGANICALLY and in a way
and at a pace that EVERYONE can understand,
directly and EXPERIENTIALLY.
God is in control, has a great sense of humour and justice
and is going to see to it that HEAVEN on Earth is restored
through our AWAKENING to WHAT TRULY MATTERS
beyond all the artificial projections/distractions.
We are being brought BACK to our TRUE selves,
all of us in different ways - on either side and
the role of evil and good - mater not.
He USES evil to get good to be good and
then turn evil to good - and we all rejoice
together in the end because we will
ALL CHOOSE GOOD - in the recognition
that evil was a mirage, a false projection
ONTO Creation and left behind forevermore!
God Bless Everyone!
Exactly the same applies here in the UK.
Like the BBC, perhaps it's more than her job's worth to deviate from the narrative that has been dictated?
Independent journalism is all well & good, as long as it doesn't deviate from the pre-set agenda.
I agree and feel exactly the same way , I will never listen to or watch anything from the CBC again ( Never ). 🤮
The word “trust” is used the most by organizations that deserve it the least.
Personally I don't want "truth telling" from the news, I want impartial reporting of known facts. I am perfectly capable of making up my own mind.
Many years ago in the days of Mr. Dressup my childhood days there was a need for a government funded tv. Now it is unnecessary and cause harm to the rest media. Time to dismantle and sell it off.
If I could make one law about the CBC it would be to require them to start and end each news segment by reminding people "This is the truth from the State media". And that at the end of each entertainment show produced by the CBC, "If you didn't like this show remember it doesn't matter because our funding is mandated by law."
I like that lol.
I like how Tata explained exactly why the CBC is losing trust, without realizing it. Yes, more good journalism (which is what we have from social media), and what is debunking CBC DISinformation.
Canadian here... defund CBC.
Credible journalism from the CBC?
That hasn't been a thing for a long, long time.
Mounted RCMP: *crushes elderly native woman using a walker at an unpopular protest*
CBC Reporter: What do you think is undermining trust in public institutions?
Mounted RCMP: *removes Darth Vader helmet* It's a real mystery. We serve the public.
CBC Reporter: Correct. We pride ourselves in truth and fairness.
Elderly native woman: *footage lost*
It's amazing how people see police on horses and automatically say it's the RCMP. It was the Toronto Police Service Mounted Unit.
And there we go...
@@Thetruthhurts708
Both of that "gang" was there, same mentality....
NPR should be defunded and destroyed. That is all.
I used to be a staunch supporter of CBC until recently. Since about 2015 I noticed that their content became incredibly far left and they began getting rid of my favourite journalists that were part of their production such as Rex Murphy. My disgust peaked during the trucker convoy when what they were reporting on air was so different from the huge amount of "on-the-ground" video that was being produced. If you were to just listen to their reporting you would think that nightly riots were going on in Ottawa. Unfortunately, I'm now one of their many critics. I sure hope their ship can be turned around because it isn't unbiased journalism like it once was.
My thoughts exactly friend
I do remember it starting shortly before Trump, but accelerating very rapidly during that time, to be fair pretty much every mainstream source has been collapsing in credibility since then, but it's weird to see it happen with these guys who once held themselves to such a high standard.
What took you so long? They lost me in the early 2000s with Anna Marie (Trotsky) Tremonte.
It has been left wing garbage since the 90's
I too was absolutely disgusted by the complete and total lies they "reported" about one of the most peaceful protests I've seen in my 40 years. It was reprehensible.
Back in the mid 90s, before streaming, if you lived in a rural area, the only way to get television was a C Band dish. I lived in such a rural area, so I bought a C Band disk kit, cable, a tuner, a 4"pipe, some cement and a post hole digger and put in a system. Nothing was scrambled then and one of the first networks we received was the CBC. You are right; many of the shows weren't that good, but we had small children and found a CBC show we all really liked, "Wind At My Back". Sort of a Canadian, VC Andrews, Little House on the Prairie, Waltons, kind of show and enjoyed it while it lasted. And then CBC decided to scramble their signal and refused to let folks in the US watch their shows. It didn't make a lot of sense to me.
In the early 80s any of the premium movie channels out of the states weren't scrambled so our rural community association in British Columbia bought a C band dish, built a small broadcast tower and broadcast HBO over the air up and down the valley. Not exactly legal but they got away with it for a few years.
So. an interviewer, interviews her boss and poses the question if her boss should be trusted.... Fun!
Hey, you don't think this " interview " was a rehearsed thing do you...?
We love journalism! Which is what CBC stopped doing.
Great video and totally analogous to the ABC here in Australia.
I think that the lack of trust in the media and particularly institutions like the CBC and ABC is driven by a critical mass of activists, not journalists or content creaters, who are attracted to (and self selected by) these institutions. The trust erodes when the majority of content reflects their left-wing biases, either by infusing opinion in the programming or by omission where newsworthy events that may "harm their side" is not reported. It cannot be helped as the "activism" is manifest in every fibre of their being and also seen as morally virtuous.
Trust further erodes when alternative media sources that you turn to are then attacked ad hominin by the very same institutions that are bleeding viewers.
I am Australian too. I grew up on the ABC in the 80's and they had heaps of good local shows in those days. Lots of comedies that created most of our major comedy stars today from shows like: The D Generation, Australia Your'e Standing In It, The Big Gig, Front LIne, etc. They seem to have lost thier way somewhere along the line.
It was sad when I realized the CBC wasn't objective news. Peter Manbridge shadow loom large. Glad he's still podcasting.
Ultimately organization's like the CBC and ABC cannot be anything but the propaganda arms of their respective governments, even if they are in theory independent. This is because their finances are ultimately controlled by those governments, for example, the UK's BBC is funded by mandatory television licences. If you want television in the UK you effectively have to pay a subscription to the BBC. This creates 2 consequences, first the BBC does not have to serve its consumers, in the sense of broadcasting programming that paying customers want to watch, because those customers have to pay in order to access other company's programming. Secondly, and more importantly, it means that the British government, even if it lacks any de jure authority over the BBC, can kill the BBC any time they wish, by simply repealing the law requiring said television licenses, thus depriving the BBC of its funding. This means that even without any de jure authority, the British government is the de facto master of the BBC, as the BBC knows it cannot survive opposing them. The BBC must tow the line to appease the British government.
You really hit the nail on the head by noting the importance of "omission" of news stories and events. To that I will also add the way the CBC chooses to frame stories they do report. For example, back when Hulk Hogan was suing Gawker, the CBC did choose to report on the story. However, their framing for it was to present Peter Thiel - the man funding the lawsuit - as a frightening "Svengali"-like figure with an axe to grind against Gawker. I asked myself why they never ran a story talking about how asking for legal redress had gotten so out of the reach of a normal person, that even an extremely wealthy and famous person like Hulk Hogan had to ask for help from a man with the wealth of a small nation, just to proceed with a lawsuit to protect his privacy and reputation. That would be an angle that "served the public interest". Instead, the CBC ran with a story angle that served their own interests. Whenever the mainstream media is criticized, they circle the wagons and never admit to any mistakes, and that quickly erodes any trust or good will that remains in their audience.
Anyways, like you said, it's often what is _missing_ that is even more important than what is actually there, and the CBC has gaping chasms of important content that they will not touch, simply because it does not serve their own interests (i.e. activism).
I mostly agree, the issue is the "Woke" are cultists and thus a part of the right and anti-freedom. The real left is happy to call all out, even themselves...
I use to like to watch hockey night in Canada but then they got rid of Don Cherry .
Well, I live in Calgary (because I can't afford to live someplace decent :P) and I scarcely give the CBC much thought anymore because I feel that they are completely out of touch with large swaths of Canadians. I mean, they can crow about diversity and occasionally produce a bonafide hit like "Schitt's Creek", but the network represents a narrow cross-section of the population. Canada is a geographically large nation with a comparatively small population. My thoughts on them is that they represent the sensibilities of the political and cultural "elites" that live in the Ottawa/Downtown Toronto/Montreal triangle and not those of my home province so I by and large ignore them.
I caught that.
That is quite true.
schitts Creek was only funny for 2 seasons max. After that it became insufferable crap with a typical Hollywood agenda. Noone I know ever finished the show to the end.
@@MrsPhilosopher I have to agree with you. They changed the show.
Thank you from above the 49th parallel for this Canadian diversion. Love your videos!!! 🇨🇦
The ABC in Australia is the ideological sibling of the CBC.
Thank you Canada for the best skit ever, Boot to the head, and thank you for the Red Green show!
Favorite red green quote I live by: "this is only temporary, unless it works."
Neither of which the CBC had anything to do with.
@@MagnifiedGiant oh. I had no idea. The Red Green show was broadcast in the states on PBS. That is our crappy, public , taxpayer funded station. The only decent shows on PBS are imports from the UK or Canada. I only know about Last Will and Temperament from TH-cam. Sorry for my ignorance.
We have hated the cbc way before Trump.
Most of us having ignored the cbc except for beach commers. We noticed during the harper years, how bad they are. Its just gotten worse.
Speaking as a Canadian actor, knowing the amount of American shows that film up here, you would think CBC would make more shows. It would give more Canadian actors a chance to grow and compete with the US. But instead... we don't. We don't promote new Canadian actors, writers, or directors. We let the US control our entertainment, and it's ridiculous.
CBC does not know how to be an entertainment network but I still support its efforts to fund as much Canadian content as it does. I don't agree with their choices but that's another thing.
@Call me Chato I can respect that. But I feel they do not even attempt their stated goals. They do not even try to promote emerging Canadian Artists. No film, music, artists, writers, anything. Even the radio that has to play a certain amount of Canadian content will just play the Tragically Hip over and over.
I wish there was more of an opportunity to young artists to create in Canada. But it really feels restrictive. But maybe I'm missing something? I'm open to being ignorant to some aspects, maybe I've missed some grants or something.
There. That catches it.
basically the USA and Canada made a deal way back that Canadian performers would have full access to the U.S. market and that U.S. film productions would have access to the Canadian market IF a certain amount of filming was done in Canada, and this is why BC and rarely even Toronto are film locations. Imagine a cleaner safer NYC there's your toronto shoot, how about China town any time or mountains oceans BC can pass for Hawaii in the summer or any wintry clime too.
Find mountains with snow near L.A. Go ahead. I dare you.
@Quizmaster China I know that. But you would think someone like the CBC would notice "Hey! The US films a lot uo here, maybe there is a reason?" And start working with locals to make programing instead of locals having to hope they didn't already cast everything in LA and that their auditions are just the formality.
"Let's be daring and risk-taking"... with taxpayers' money. I despise this corporation.
I grew up watching loving and learning from, the CBC. Those days are over, I don't even recognise them any longer.
Same here! It was a relief to finally let it go.
Cracked me up, having been on the inside of the beast your insights into the CBC were both hilarious and sad. It accounts for the CBC content being so out of touch with many Canadians, but it does make one despair for any attempt to fix the situation. Chato for CBC Prez!! Well at least your tour begging for viewers might actually work!
As an American, I still owe Canada a BIG ONE! Canada brought us SCTV and creative greats such as: John Candy, Eugene Levy, Rick Moranis, Dave Thomas and Martin Short just to name a few. SCTV was what I consider, the nucleus of my generation's golden entertainment. I'm sure many could expound upon this but I had to express my love for quality comedy genius.
SCTV was a documentary not comedy.. How could you miss that? Canadians cant lie .
Greg, get where you are coming from. Growing up on the Michigan side of the Sault, we had 1 American and 2 Canadian channels. Without CBC and CTV our entertainment options would be limited. Thanks Canada, for sharing!
Ah those early SCTV days produced in Edmonton, Alberta at ITV. A very 'Canadian' show, always slightly awkward but never as bad as a CBC production. It did improve a bit when it moved to Toronna with a better budget.
Correct @satantheclown. From personal experience, the chance that TV sets on USAF bases in North Dakota were tuned to CBC stations in Brandon or Winnepeg was probably greater than 60% in the 70s and 80s. Monty Python, excellent British series, hockey, etc. Even curling can be mesmerizing when one is snowed in.
Ancient History
The last time I watched the CBC, Knowlton Nash was anchoring the National.
You're writing and delivering some of your best material on this channel, Paul. I literally laughed out loud several times during this video. Made my Friday evening.
Well it perked up my Saturday morning here down-under.
In Sweden it's worse, they get around 1.2 billion CAD in funds from the government to produce propaganda for the regime. Note that we're roughly 1/4 of Canadas population.
Tait lost the narrative... remember that terms like disinformation, misinformation, malinformation, or conspiracy theory is not a counter argument
Your video is the first with “CBC” referenced in the title that I even bothered to take a chance on. Nicely done! You captured very politely how useless the organization has become and is now essentially a sad and pathetic propaganda machine for a government which no longer sees its’ population as being capable of intelligent thought or critical thinking. Since they can’t recognize it at all, I guess it is not a surprise. Were it not for misappropriation of resources through taxation, their version of “truth” wouldn’t even make the cut in an old “B” movie.
As a Brit all I’ll say is “defund the BBC”.
I’m sure the good people of Canada will do what they think is best with their National Broadcaster.
We trying but castro just gives away our money to keep getting hid d sucked
Burn their studios to the ground?
The BBC no longer produces content that appeals to British people, they all jumped onto the woke bandwagon while overpaying pompous gits to piss us off.
Well we re-elected Trudeau several times, so... When you say "good people", to whom are you referring? Is overt racism good now?
@@randygault4564 who’s the ‘racist’ in your comment?
I was into shortwave radio as a kid. Radio Canada International was, by far, what I listened to the most. Mostly because the reception was so reliable compared with other stations around the world, but also due to the cheerful personalities on air and how entertaining and informative the programs were. They shared the same mailing address as the CBC Northern Service, which beamed network programming to areas that were sparsely populated and had no local radio stations (for us south-of-the-border listeners who were not the target audience but were still able to tune in, this was our only exposure to Canadian domestic fare, as they often rebroadcast the audio portion of TV shows, too). Apparently, people writing in would get confused and assume that RCI and the CBCNS were one and the same. This prompted the RCI announcers to repeat _ad nauseum_ on the air that while they were housed in the same building, RCI and the CBCNS were entirely separate facilities, so when writing to one or the other please specify in the address which service you were writing to.
They could not stress enough that they had nothing to do with each other.
I got to see what the RCI logo looked like in my return correspondence. It was a cleverly designed depiction of a transmitting tower with concentric circles radiating out of it but contained within the outline of a maple leaf.
Despite all their protestations, guess what? That beautiful logo was soon replaced with the ugly CBC logo. Separate, indeed.🤣
i used to love to listen to RCI on my little shortwave radio. that was many years ago. when my radio died so did the RCI.
American here, but I will always hold a special place in my heart for the CBC for blessing the world with the beginnings of SCTV.
I used to listen to CBC radio overnight when I worked the nightshift at my ISP back in the day. But they fell hard
Is the CBC what Drake means when he said he came up from the bottom?
As I recall, SCTV actually started on fledgling Canadian TV network Global. It was then picked up by CBC. Nonetheless. It was great.
SCTV started at ITV in Edmonton
@@richardhuppertz3487 SCTV was produced in Toronto and southern Ontario for the first two seasons and then moved to ITV. It first aired on Global and then went to CBC.
I did not know that Donald Trump was President of Canada. I guess I should abandon the news and watch only South Park for my information.
I grew up in rural Saskatchewan and my only choices as a kid were CBC and CTV and a few snowy stations I could almost get if the weather was right. The worst weekend was Telemiracle weekend because that's all I had to watch on TV. I was so happy the year we got a VCR...
How about when we got the us channels? I think it was North Dakota first, then Detroit.
The CBC is obsolete. Should be privatized. Let subscribers support it.
For many years I drove between Alaska and the US midwest and had always looked forward to finding a few CBC programs that I particularly loved while dreading a few that I found boring and cringe-worthy...though the last few years I'd pretty much given up searching for anything worth listening to and I'm sure you know why; no matter what the subject matter of the news item it would invariably castigate and chastise the listener for the patriarchy, colonialism, and climate. On the few occasions when I would tune in it became a game to see how many minutes it would be before those 3 shiboleths would be broached....sometimes it wouldn't even take that long.
So true.
I listen to the publicly funded Canadian late-night radio programming. Intelligent DJ's, and some fabulous music.
@@frederickschneider3165 Randy Bachman's Vinyl Tap was always worth searching for...cheers.
@@416dl But he is a cis white male, so they gave him the boot.
@@416dl
he went to a private rock channel.
Well you gave the CBC "a boot to the head". Loved the Frantics.
I was a regular CBC radio listener in the past. I watched some things on CBC Gem here and there. They are so ideologically driven now I have completely stopped these past few years. Yes, during the pandemic I tuned into the daily briefings like most as we were all eager initally for any and all news in relation. Pretty soon politics got involved and their bipartisan selves pushed me away. They are a parody of themselves now, and I have no interest in returning until they take a more balanced approach to news and programming.
I doubt CBC will come around like that. They are paid by the Federal Liberals to promote Liberals agenda. Yes, I know how cynical that sounds, but it's true unfortunately.
oooh, so they became a canadian version of CNN/russia today, huh?
as a south american,i ahd N O idea "aboot" this cbc thing, and was confused for yall's hatred
@@theALTF4 State run left wing media is what the CBC is. In other words Propaganda for Liberals.
CBC love hate relationship is the kindest thing anyone has ever said about that joke of a network outside of the network hacks there. Another excellent critique and thank you Mr Chatto.
We have judged ourselves to be perfect. Trust us.
Excellent video Paul. Thanks!
Sir, as an American, I appreciate your insightful and colorful comments. Also, I think that I have that same coat!
The fact that a piece of my day goes towards funding the cbc makes me twitch. State funded entertainment is one thing, state funded news is straight out of totalitarian states. If cbc cannot compete for advertisers and eyeballs, then i would never be happy with funding it.
HI Paul. I'm from Montreal, and everything you said about our feelings towards CBC shows was spot on! I can remember watching so many shows as a kid like The Beachcombers, Tommy Hunter Show (because of my parents), Wayne & Shuster, The Littlest Hobo (on CTV) and so many others: if I walked into a room with a TV on, I knew immediately a TV show was Canadian based on that "feel" you got from quality, or the same 4-6 actors you might see on CBC and/or CTV.
Oh, and as far as 7:28, Yes! Anita is lovely, and well spoken (please don't hash tag metoo me). 🙃
The number one show in Canada was Don Messer's Jubilee, but considered too corny for modern Canada. What a huge misread of the audience that was.
My goodness. Word-for-word, I could have written that comment myself. Spot on! Didn't the Beachcombers go on for more than 20 years!
@@icitrom And can you find it on CBC's streaming app? I couldn't. I managed to find it somewhere on Amazon Prime, but I couldn't buy or watch due to geo-fencing. Like, wtf??
If it wasn’t paid with our taxes it would be gone years ago
I worked as a PA in Toronto in the 80's and I remember a fellow PA telling me about a production that had to re-shoot a lot of footage because it was "too good and looked American".
wtf?
I understand this, doing something too good could encourage executives to raise their quality standards without increasing the budget and production technicians would have to work more.
- She wants the CBC to counter 'disinformation' with more quality journalism.
She's absolutely right but she's also utterly incapable of recognising that she cannot deliver that content when her CBC journalists are often the source of the 'disinformation'.
- She says the CBC should reflect Canadians.
She's right - and the CBC does reflect Canada and Canadians - but she is incapable of seeing that her 'mirror' is one of those carnival sorts that grossly distorts the image of the object in front of it.
Drag shows simply engorge the image of how important that is to Canadians while also taking money away from other productions that might have something to offer.
News output that remains excoriating about a former President of ANOTHER COUNTRY is shameful, when we have institutions that need close scrutiny here.
I used to wake up with my radio alarm set to the local CBC Radio 1 station. A great way to discover local issues and Canadian music (I particularly enjoyed when they played Astrocolor 'Push Too Far'). However, over the years, more and more segments featuring activists, advocates, and students from one of the two universities in town describing their mental health battles, meant that I was forced to retune. Now I listen to CTV News. It ditches the activists for commercials (not much of an improvement), but retains the biased news coverage and denies me discovering Candian culture.
Thank heavens for social media to help me discover what's going on.
Has a québecois, I was relieved that you speak in french at the end so I can access the vidéo. Merci Chato !
You are most welcome!
This reminds me of a scene in a 1980's movie...
"Mon crayon est grand...!" - Gotcha!
It is sad to hear what is or has happened to Canada. It has been cut down to producing and supporting dry sterile entertainment steeped in cultural wokism and playing it 'safe' and pushing 'the political narrative'. Just like many other parts of the world, including my Singapore. As a person of 60, my growing-up years was heavily influenced 99.9% of the time by the West. USA's TV, movies and music entertainment has always been such a beautiful vibrant spectrum. Always fresh and always something for everyone. It was a time of experimentation and creativity was the order of the day. I can relate so closely to you given our age and shared love for a lot of cartoons, animation, graphic design, technology, PC ( yes I did follow some of your content in the earlier years when you did a lot of computer tech) comics, movie taste and likely music too. It was to such an extent someone who spend time with me from the USA or the West, they would think talking to this Asian Man, I was someone born and lived in the States and not someone from Singapore who saw the world and learn to embrace the best of what it can offer especially the West. In the last decade, freedom is no longer true to its definition. It's almost lifeless, boring, UNIMAGINATIVE, Uncreative ... damn, I could think of many negative words to add but you get my point and I do not want to feel more sad than I need to upon reflecting. The 'well' has just about dry up in 2023 culturally. What surprise me even more is how FAST Canada has sped up toward this WOKE nightmare passed the US.
Witty Aussie writer, Clive James called the BBC the British Broadcorpsing Castration many years ago- and that's still how I think of it.
Legend
...or the biased broadcasting corporation.
Mr Dress Up, The Friendly Giant, and the Beach Combers my favorites of all time. Hockey night in Canada. As a kid growing up on the east coast I never made it past the first period before I fell asleep. Now The Nature Of Things, Dave Suzuki was my child hood hero. I moved to Vancouver and worked construction. We were working in Kitsilano directly across the street from his house. One fine beautiful Vancouver morning I spotted Dave taking out the garbage so I took the opportunity to cross the street to meet my childhood hero. I walked up to him to say hi and held my hand out and he in return told me to Fu k off. I'm still tore up to this very day. CBC blows chunks and Dave you hurt me, you shattered my dreams, you really hurt me.
There's truth to the phrase "Never meet your heroes, you will only be disappointed "
Yes, that newsreader should be on air for about 8 hours per day. Talent.
Used to have CBC radio as my alarm in the morning. Got sick of waking up to being informed that my toxic masculinity and/or white supremacy made me problematic for simply existing. As an immigrant to Canada, it made me feel very unwelcome that the state broadcaster hated me simply for my race and gender.
Maybe it wouldn't have been so bad if they'd ever questioned the validity of these concepts, but they didn't. They simply regurgitated them as gospel.
Well done as usual. Educational and informative and fun even to a US citizen. LOL
Glad you enjoyed it
I’m Australian and would love to see the ABC be completely defunded immediately.
Been clean of the BBC 10 years now and never looked back once.
Why is trust gone? My brief 1 year internship at WVUB, our college PBS tv/radio station, our "executive news director" would walk over to the AP news wire printer, pull of 10 pages, then just go read it on air, verbatim, for 30 minutes. That's why. News isn't news anymore.
People at CBC/Radio-Canada know that if the Conservative Party has a majority in Parliament, there will big cuts in their budget. That explains a lot about what is broadcasted.
Purely educational. And to think that I assumed that the only thing allowed on Canadian TV was hockey, followed by analysis of hockey.
Good idea,
Followed by hand wringing about the lack of diversity in hockey.
@@SilverSquirrel this should come with a permanent banishment from the country.
Canada would be better if it was just hockey. Its all trudeau d sucking
😆
Love your experienced industry viewpoint, Paul. Fascinating to hear what it was like and glad to see that you're pretty open minded about things ....but naively so.
I'm an American who lived in Canada briefly, in Ottawa no less. Can confirm that most Canadians watch CTV except on Mondays when the CBC hosted Hockey Night in Canada. This video confirms that not much has changed at the CBC since my Ottawa days at the turn of the millennium.
Hockey night in Canada was on Saturday not Monday.
@@adamwatson6916 Shows how much attention I was paying to the CBC.
Most Canadians don't watch any of the Canadian networks since Trudeau bout them all off with 600 million dollars
"Woke Waffen". Made my week. I'm going to be using this this profusely.
My new description. Worked hard on the alliteration.
Living in Toronto, it slowly dawned on me (I'm not that clever) that the CBC is the self-serving arm of the Toronto based writers, producers, actors, who know they are the direct beneficiaries of tax payer. What they produce, it's quality or creativity is entirely secondary to the basic imperative of just getting something funded. They spin this as 'precarious' without questioning whether the vast majority of these projects should be funded in the first place. I don't say defund CBC, I would be more radical and say no more public funding of scripted TV productions and stick just to news and HNIC. Maybe more resouces for news and no more Mr. D's.
That’s what defunding means. They have to earn their money.
Problem is their news is hardcore leftwing bs.
Your "Au revoir" at the end was a nice touch. I'm from Québec (Québec City actually) and I love your videos. À la prochaine !!!
When Madame Taint spit out the "I want everyone at CBC to be proud of truth telling" I choked on my poutine... Gone are the days of CBC journalism that didn't omit the unpleasant or turn a blind eye because of political hegemony. Like the time Newfoundland premier Joey Smallwood was mobbed by disgruntled fisherman after the cod moratorium & said on Nolton Nash's live TV broadcast "What do you want me to do about it By'? I didn't take the fish outta da goddamned ocean!" You would never hear that today. lol
In Germany we have a very similar approach (it is called Öffentlich rechtlich, which means it is public law). It is not openly governmental funded, but the fee is collected by law and you get imprisoned if you do not pay. We also have more and more people that do not watch this. Funfact: We have worldwide at least one of the most expensive Broadcasts for our small country. #DefundtheÖRR
"Delivering credible news" Not accurate news, just being believable.
Waiting for an episode of Chatoland Who's Who. 😀 I can see your residual respect for the CBC peeking out but at this point, the CBC has eroded all the goodwill it earned with me way back in the day.
Chato, you have to admit that Kids in the Hall is an actually amazing Canadian comedy show. Also, the Quebec joke at the end: I LOL'd.
Kids in the Hall was probably the last good thing CBC put out.
Oh, So that's why CBC turns off comments! It's because of the hard work they do.
I really like Murdoch Mysteries - watch it here on Ovation in the US.
Plus, you're right..."Anita the newsreader" is gorgeous.
I miss all the gold CBC made back in the 80’s and 90’s. Even before. Every Canadian knows the log drivers waltz time filler.
I grew up watching the CBC and lived long enough to see our beloved public broadcaster drink the Poison Chalice of political allegiance. The really sad part for me was when I noticed that the CBC did not even gag on the evil brew... as if they had been drinking this stuff for quite some time! 😮
The US equivalent, PBS, also can't get their noses far enough up the butts of the political Left...
Yep, they quaffed that bubbling cup of diarrhea. And now they're pissed that nobody listens to their crappy words.
Nice video :)
As for me...
1990s: member of the Friends of Canadian Broadcasting, and supported the movement to keep the CBC going.
2023: Defund the CBC!
Why? So many reasons why, but putting out clear propaganda that Russia was supporting the Trucker Convoy was shameful.
Thanks for being a part of The Frantics. My buddy Brad (RIP) and I would reenact the show in French class, and then talk about another show from PBS - THE Operation, which if you don't know was basically very graphic, hour long videos showing complex surgical procedures, with VO by the surgeons.
Anyway, we would draw stuff based on skits from The Frantics, and the occasional flayed quadriceps, in our Hilroys and then get scolded by whatever passed for a French teacher in the early 90s in Nova Scotia.
The best tv show never made
I was just thinking about how PBS used to have some real quality shows, like The Operation and Nova. I know Nova *technically* still exists but the more recent shows I've seen were dumbed-down sensationalist drivel, therefore dead in my mind.
Montreal fan here and you got it 100% right. love the video!
and love the accent!
As a Canadian Film technician my one and only experience working for the CBC would’ve been laughable if it wasn’t deeply disturbing. I watched one of the myriad of CDC executives look at me dumbfounded when I tried to explain the issue of clearance of art o on a film set. I just shook my head and did what I was told in the end but it was fascinating when the same executive got into so much trouble over the hockey night in Canada ringtone
They even sold the jingle... jesus people - time to open those eyes.
The one they only a
Had the rights to play on broadcasts not sell as ringtones
In Norway we have this state own news bureau called NTB.
Ironic translated to English it`s becoming . Not To Believe