CBC president and CEO Catherine Tait sparred with Conservative MP Melissa Lantsman about the broadcaster’s coverage of the Israel-Hamas War, including refusal to retract disproven headlines about the October 17 hospital explosion .
If we in the media want the public to listen to us, we must first listen to them. And if we expect the public to trust us, we’re going to have to start by trusting them.
These media failures are highly problematic especially in a context of heightened tensions in the region and elsewhere around the world. There is an onus on the news media to ensure that its coverage its reliable and trustworthy.
Western diplomats, journalists, and B-level scholars got their wish. They helped to defeat a flawed and perhaps hapless leader in the Shah of Iran, and they inadvertently aided a greater evil.
The takeaway from the decision is obvious: registration is the first step toward regulation with the Commission already envisioning the prospect of regulating a wide range of services.
The bottom line, is that, while it keeps insisting it doesn’t intend to regulate the content of podcasts, it is very concerned about the content of podcasts and if it can’t legally regulate them, it’ll make sure someone else does it for them.
There has long been a discernible imbalance in the portrayal of Indigenous issues by the Canadian media. Historically, numerous media outlets have displayed tendencies of misrepresentation, constrained their range of…
This week’s Hub Roundtable discusses the controversy about the attendance of a Ukrainian man who fought for a Nazi unit at Ukrainian President Zelenskyy’s speech to Parliament. Plus, the future of the CBC as political opposition to the broadcaster grows.
Some experts also worry about the effect that increasing dependence on the government will have on the quality of news and the trust of readers, which is already in decline.
The network’s emphasis on identity issues can cause it to lose the forest for the trees. It has increasingly contributed to a narrow and unrepresentative conception of Canadian civic life that undermines its ability to still play a nation-building role.
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