https://tarahenley.substack.com/p/speaking-freely
For months now, I’ve been getting complaints about the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, where I’ve worked as a TV and radio producer, and occasional on-air columnist, for much of the past decade.
People want to know why, for example, non-binary Filipinos concerned about a lack of LGBT terms in Tagalog is an editorial priority for the CBC, when local issues of broad concern go unreported. Or why our pop culture radio show’s coverage of the Dave Chappelle Netflix special failed to include any of the legions of fans, or comics, that did not find it offensive. Or why, exactly, taxpayers should be funding articles that scold Canadians for using words such as “brainstorm” and “lame.”
Everyone asks the same thing: What is going on at the CBC?
I read that. Absolutely damning (and true.) I have said that I used to support the CBC. They were left leaning, and it was kind of BS. But it was not what it is now.
I will flip through every now and then to see what is happening. If it is a man on, I ask if he is gay, or black. If it is a woman, I ask if she is trans or Asian. Oh, and they still throw in a few major atheists for good measure.
The mandate used to be to reflect Canadian society. Now that is a joke... Also, you will never hear a balanced idea around the vaccine or the tyranny and the laws. Just support for that (and asking why the unvaxxed are still free to live.)
There is no longer a single thing worth while on the CBC. They should be cut out like the societal cancer that they are.
