The President and CEO of CBC/Radio-Canada said the CBC will still provide Canadians with traditional radio and television broadcasts delaying its move to digital-only service until adequate high-speed Internet is available to all Canadians.
Gregory Taylor, an associate professor at the University of Calgary's department of communication, media and film, said he's frustrated by CBC's push toward an all-digital format when traditional media services still have strong audiences and a digital-only future could be decades away.
"It'll likely happen at some point, but I see no reason that this needs to be the main fight that the CBC tries to bring forward right now," he said. In Tait's interview with the Globe and Mail, she described that criticism as a "slogan" being used as a tool to fundraise for the party. "Slogan or not, the reality is we have to respond. If there are detractors to the CBC, I believe it's my responsibility to respond with explanations of why it is that CBC really matters," Tait said.Asked if she was concerned that her comments about Poilievre and the Conservatives could undermine working journalists by publicly pitting the public broadcaster against a political party, Tait said she was just doing her job.
Tait said that she wrote Poilievre to congratulate him on becoming party leader and has asked to meet with him but has yet to sit down with the opposition leader.Taylor said it's Tait's job to ensure the CBC continues to function and if the Conservatives are going to argue for it to be defunded, they should expect some pushback.
"Even though it's understandable that the CBC may want to respond to criticisms it's received from the Conservative Party, in the process of responding it seems to me it enters the political fray directly opposite the Conservative Party," he said.
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