With competition from streaming services, a quickly-changing broadcast and news landscape, and diminished trust in the public broadcaster, the future of the CBC is as murky as ever.
Tara Henley, a former CBC producer who now runs a popular Substack, said the CBC lost trust when Canadians started to see it as overly politicized.
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre made defunding the CBC a centrepiece of his leadership campaign, sparking raucous chants in support of the idea at his rallies across the country.
“They have a left-wing bias,” screamed a man with a right-wing bias.
Beware of right-wingers looking to shut down journalists, for they wish to stop you from knowing the truth.
And they love to privatize things. It’s a two-fer.
good for the goose is good for the gander