How low will CBC TV bosses go in search of ratings and ad dollars?

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had proposed a series of programs on the crimes committed by Paul Bernardo. Negative reaction from inside and outside the CBC was swift. And in its corporate reaction, CBC TV has been oddly defensive.

What the program proposal raises is the question of values at CBC TV. What moral compass do these CBC bosses have when it comes to balancing the need for a ratings win with the moral sensibility of this country? The health of a society, in a physical, mental and moral sense, can be measured by the actions of its publicly funded broadcaster. CBC likes to trumpet the fact that it is a trusted brand in Canada. Well, trust isn’t easily achieved but it is easily broken.

Everybody impacted is obliged to adjust, to refocus and build on strengths. CBC TV’s approach, it seems, is to go low in search of a ratings win and more ad dollars. With this proposal to useThat’s what we can extrapolate and it’s what we need to resist. But we are all just looking for clues, searching for patterns among remarks made by CBC TV executives and strategy documents seen by this newspaper.

 

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GlobeArts I just want to see a CBC telethon where Fat Rosie Barton is asking for donations for the complete series of The Beachcombers on DVD. cdnpoli

GlobeArts CBC waste of good money...Liberal elites

GlobeArts Who is this clown?

GlobeArts Is this a trick question? 🧐 I think they have already demonstrated countless times how low they will go!...😐

GlobeArts ベーシックインカム出来ますよ?税を0にすればもっとプラスになり。お金もあまるんだけどね?

GlobeArts Asking MisterJohnDoyle I stopped watching cbctv years (decades?) ago, and like you am flummoxed by the programming decisions. but love cbcradio is there anyone like you who covers the radio beat?

GlobeArts Well they’ve became Pravda for the Liberal Party...So they’ve pretty much bottomed out already...

GlobeArts That bigoted clown's smiling mug is all you need to make your point.

GlobeArts Perhaps they need to hire humans who can navigate the real world first.

GlobeArts Taking sponsorship money for HNIC from Huawei was the new low

GlobeArts DRAGONS DEN is returning for a 14th season. FAMILY FEUD is getting a Canadian version with Gerry Dee These are desperate moves!

GlobeArts “Keeping Don Cherry on the air despite his total incoherence” is pretty low.

GlobeArts Big butterfly tie!

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