American newsmagazine Time Magazine has covered CBC’s trials and tribulations, reporting that the Mothercorp was “leaderless and groggy from cumulative misfortune.” Among the items the magazine notes:
- French viewers are outraged by the airing of a drama series
- A politician is charging the CBC has “shown favoritism toward his opposition in reporting a provincial election.”
- It’s reported that the CBC is not making a profit on the vast majority of its programming
The Time article concludes that “the CBC was striking evidence of the trouble that is inherent in government operation of a medium of communication in a free society.”
Sound like the same old same old? It should. The article was published in 1959.
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Nunc pro tunc.
Now, as though then.
Yes because the laissez-faire media market really worked out well for them… Journalism is now dead in the US
[...] Inside the CBC has unearthed an article from Time Magazine published back in 1959. The litany of complaints and dire prognostications pretty much reads like it could have been written today by any number of right whingers. Of particular interest however, is this part. Ontario’s Conservative Premier, Leslie Frost, charged that the CBC had shown favoritism toward his opposition in reporting a provincial election. [...]