Many still believe a well\u002Dfunded national broadcaster could uphold an idea of Canada that respects everyone. But we’re losing the argument.
In the run-up to the carefully choreographed outrage over Twitter’s accurate designation of the CBC as government-funded, Musk had been having quite the lark with news organizations. He tagged the BBC “government-funded media,” then switched the BBC to “publicly-funded” after the Beeb kicked up a fuss. He did worse to NPR, tagging the venerable public network as “state-affiliated” as though it were a dictator’s mouthpiece, then switched NPR’s label to “government-funded,” which was still wrong.
That was a bit rich, given that the Liberals’ own battalions of Twitter fuseliers have expended so much manic energy these past few weeks bombarding and ambuscading pretty well every Canadian newsroom that doesn’t have the CBC logo on it: Dens of racists and liars and sinister right-wing plotters, the lot of them, being mean to Justin just because of all the Beijing-affiliated billionaires and influence pedlars who have made themselves so comfortably at home in Trudeau’s company over the years.
This strikes me as nuts, and not just because Musk is a Canadian citizen. You could say that Poilievre was a bit nuts, too, writing Musk directly to ask him to list the CBC as government-funded media and then celebrating it when he did, this way: “‘CBC officially exposed as ‘government-funded media.’ Now people know that it is Trudeau propaganda, not news.”Article content
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