Mission Statement for “What Was Wrong With The National”: During the last federal election campaign, Justin Trudeau promised to give the CBC additional funding if he became PM. This clearly affected the CBC’s election coverage, where the so-called impartial public broadcaster actively promoted Trudeau as Harper’s replacement. After winning the election, Trudeau rewarded CBC for … Continue reading What Was Wrong With CBC’s ‘The National’ Tuesday and Wednesday Night (October 24 & 25, 2017)
Mission Statement for "What Was Wrong With The National": During the last federal election campaign, Justin Trudeau promised to give the CBC additional funding if he became PM. This clearly affected the CBC's election coverage, where the so-called impartial public broadcaster actively promoted Trudeau as Harper's replacement. After winning the election, Trudeau rewarded CBC for … Continue reading What Was Wrong With ‘The National’ Sunday and Monday Night (October 22-23, 2017)
I continue to get overwhelmingly positive feedback from readers on my media criticism of CBC's flagship program. However, I did notice some on Twitter dismissing the whole exercise as a waste of time. https://twitter.com/teresa_reza/status/922542862549635073 https://twitter.com/Rebelsoldier29/status/922568617127849984 My response to these people is apathy begets no change. Also, for those who think "everyone thinks it's a joke", … Continue reading What Was Wrong With CBC’s ‘The National’ Friday Night (October 20, 2017)
I'm b-a-a-a-c-k. Sorry for the hiatus readers, I was halfway through this post on Friday--I also had to work on an article for another publication earlier in the day--but then the clock started running into the evening and I had already made plans for the rest of the weekend. Anyway, none of you are paying … Continue reading What Was Wrong With CBC’s The National Last Thursday (October 19, 2017)
Well the first installment was a bit of a hit with readers--nearly a thousand of you visited Raving Canuck in its first 24 hours. I guess I'm committed to suffering through 45 minutes of spin and irrelevant stories each night for the foreseeable future. We'll see how long I can take it. Meanwhile, the least … Continue reading What Was Wrong With CBC’s ‘The National’ Last Night (October 18, 2017)
Here's the first installment of "What Was Wrong With CBC's The National Last Night". In these blurbs I will summarize the CBC's flagship news program from the previous night, highlighting what was glossed over or completely ignored by the public broadcaster in the last day's news cycle. I will also question, where applicable, stories given … Continue reading What Was Wrong With CBC’s ‘The National’ Last Night (October 17, 2017)
By Josh Lieblein It's critically acclaimed. It's a blast to play and beautiful to look at. It's a commercial success, with over 100,000 downloads in 3 days and on pace to break plenty of records. It's currently on the tip of the tongue of every gaming pundit worth their controller as they intensely debate whether … Continue reading Trudeau Liberal Government’s CanCon Mandarins IGNORE “Cuphead”, the Grant-Free, Made-In-Canada, Smash Hit Video Game
The author of the Google memo, software engineer James Damore, decided to do his first interviews with two popular and controversial Canadian YouTube vloggers shortly after being fired at the start of August. In a wide-ranging interview I asked Damore back on August 15 about why he chose to do interviews with these two Canadian … Continue reading Interview with Google Manifesto creator James Damore (August 15)
The commentariat from time to time like to make comparisons and draw parallels between politicians and fictional characters to illuminate on the personality of the public figures. However, in the case of Justin Trudeau the two types of fictional characters commonly linked to the prime minister … Continue reading The Striking Resemblance Between Justin Trudeau and a Harry Potter Character
So the CBC has officially become the state broadcaster for the Liberal Party of Canada. The CBC's latest Canada 150 series "Canada: The Story of Us" has a gross minute-long introduction by our Prime Minister Justin Trudeau doing his pedantic and patronizing part-time drama teacher shtick in reading empty platitudes from a teleprompter. Here, watch … Continue reading CBC: Trudeau’s State Broadcaster
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