A good example of CBC bias...

[wilagro]

Tom: but buying 100 surplus tanks at over a million dollars a pop and then a pile of money to retrofit them with air conditioning was a good expenditure...right? That was government money too.

What CBC critics hate most is any CBC news reports that puts the CONs in a bad light.

[Fransisco]

Here is the story about the tanks

http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/tanks-for-the-lesson-leopards-too-for-canada-03208/

I would say spending money to help keep our troops safe or to better meet their objectives is money far better spent than on the talentless blowhards(with the exception of Don Cherry) at the cbc.

[chuckChuck]

The cost of the CBC is relatively small and is a good investment. Provides lots of jobs and economic activity. Many countries in Europe invest in public radio and TV. Commercial free radio is a breath a fresh air compared to most of the crappy stations that have to find revenue from advertisers. Whether you pay through taxes or indirectly when you purchase advertised products, there is still a cost to the consumer whether you listen or not. CBC provides an alternative. As a taxpayer we pay for many things we don't use or don't support, so whether you agree with or disagree or like or don't like the CBC, it doesn't really matter. CBC radio provides a service that would not exist in the commercial market. CBC TV could do a better job.

[TOM4CWB]

ChuckChuck,

We should sell it.

If no one will buy it or support it voluntarily... like they do PBS in the US... it is truly a waste of a billion $$$.

Are you paid to post here on Agriville?

You know what we think if you are.

Otherwise the CBC is a waste with new technology and all the opportunities if those who use it are not willing to improve the content and make it less costly.

Private industry could do cbc's job for a fraction of the cost.

Why does CBC own part of Sirus???

CRAZy.

[Fransisco]

"CBC radio provides a service that would not exist in the commercial market."

Exactly! It has no real value.

If those people who love CBC so much aren't willing to pay for it themselves then it has no reason to exist.

[Fransisco]

[tman]

Getting back to what I think was the original post, if you spend enough time on the net and listen to other sources, liberal, conservative or whatever, you find out that there are always contradictions, or more accurately put would be interpretations.

In The Daily Show with Jon Stewart's July 27 episode, he puts, I suppose some would call, his liberal perspective on the debate. Stewart's evidence for his perspective was the "army of Christ manifesto" that the guy constructed.

But hey, like I've said many times before, it's just like all the religious books out there...it's all up to interpretation. Just like the crazy Norway guy, his interpretation of life is drastically different from, what I think is, the majority.

[tman]

As for the debate of the existence of the CBC...it's just like so many other things the government does that we don't want. The CBC should cease to exist just like social financial handouts. But now the conservatives have a majority so we can now expect those handouts to stop. Probably the reason why the funding for the slaughter plant in MB got revoked.

I can give another example of hypocrisy but I'll save that for another time.