CEO Catherine Tait shamelessly attacks Pierre Poilievre for \u0027stoking\u0027 criticism of the broadcaster
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There are many, many reasons why CBC is devastatingly low in ratings, why its audiences have drifted off, why its prime newscasts do not outscore some pitiful private blogs or podcasts — and among those many, many reasons I suggest Pierre Poilievre, leader of the opposition, and whatever he has said, swims at the very, very bottom of the pool.This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
But it is not the CBC’s business to instruct the population on its “goals and values.
CBC has become a parody of what falls under the generous umbrella of social justice activism, and sees itself, not as a ruthlessly objective, wide-ranging, fearless gatherer of the happenings of this country; but as a desperately moralistic hectoring monolith out to better the millions and millions of Canadians who happen to be interested in every latest bulletin on every downtown faddish cause and protest from the woke agenda.
The third, perhaps I’m wrong here, maybe it is the real first reason. CBC has forgotten, doesn’t know, or care about most of its own audience, and almost always, addresses its non-audience in the most patronizing, condescending tones. The vast reaches of urban Canada could lie in outer Siberia for all the connection CBC has with them.Article content
As far as your tour goes, university panels, and interviews conducted by your own employees, with somnolent panels — none of which, none of which, as far as I have seen have taken place on farms, in small towns, in the north or out east in the villages and outports.Article content
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