I hear that the CBC seeks to prove that it is unbiased, that they are fair and balanced. This is a subject that I have long pondered myself, as one of the few people who watch CBC Newsworld. If the CBC truly wishes to vet their own bias, I do have some ideas for empirical testing that they can do. For their online content, they should really focus on Kady O'Malley, because she basically dominates if not runs their website. Heather Mallick rarely writes for the CBC anymore, while Kady posts multiple times per day.
Measuring media bias empirically is not a simple venture. It is easy to spot the bias of someone like O'Malley because 90% of what she writes is critical of one party. She will even joke on the air about how she will never write anything nice about the government. Terry Milewski is also a very one sided journalist who can be quite venomous when they put him on opinion panels, but again trying to assign a number to his partisanship is going to very subjective under the best circumstances. To measure partisanship, you would ideally need a control group of a non partisan media organization. See which stories are ignored and which are hyped against the control group and this would be much easier. I just don't know if we have a truly non partisan media outlet in this country?
Obviously Kory Teneycke is a partisan. The difference between him and the majority of his colleagues is that he openly admits his bias so that you can filter what he says. Kady O'Malley pretends to be non partisan when she frequently writes partisan statements. While many people accuse the CBC of having Liberal bias, let me say that I suspect many of their television journalists are Dippers. I don't think it is accurate to say there is a Liberal bias, but instead a general anti-Conservative bias. I was going to put together an observational experiment in March, but I have postponed a number of personal projects until after I have moved.
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Like all complaints I have written to the CBC about their blatant liberal bias.... we will get a front page news story - "CBC found no bias!"... that is what is always in my letters... I think this will be the fox watching the hen house to even allow them to conduct their own investigation... You have to be a "sick puppy" not to see their endless liberal bias... Frank Graves, wafergate.... liberal interviewed in an H1N1 line...right now - what coverage are we getting of the liberal MP who is presently lobbying for his law firm and is a present liberal MP? - what coverage on the front page of their Page is there? But what about the conservative MP - in Alberta.... how much coverage will we see or hear from Peter Mansbridge about the President of the Liberal Party being involved at one time with the gangster they tried to portray the Conservative party with in the Jafer affair?... Oh, I forgot, he wrote a letter - he wasn't involved... so that is it!... No one was involved in the Sponsorship Scandal either... and the Adscam affair... can you imagine the digging and prying we would have from the CBC if this involved the Conservatives. They sent reporters to the sunny South digging to see what they could find for "dirt" on the conservatives on the Jaffer affair... but they never sent a reporter to the PEI airport to see who Wayne Easter's little liberal hack was that sent the letter!!!
ReplyDeleteIf you don't like the conservative party policies, share the moral, political views it makes sense your personal feelings would impact on your performance or reviewing of them.
ReplyDeleteThese are human beings being asked to report and publicize information.
I came across David Haskell (love Google).
In his book Through a Lens Darkly, author David Haskell blames the news media for the image problem facing Canadian evangelicals. However, reviewer John P. Ferré finds there is not enough solid evidence to support the claims.
Enjoy.
http://www.j-source.ca/english_new/detail.php?id=4695
Agree about many television journalists are Dippers. I was shocked to watch terry Milewski state on the National last night that he has scene unredacted documents and there is a direct link between torture and Canada.I think it is time for the CBC to declare its sources and show us the proof.
ReplyDeleteTerry Milewski gives the impression he is not only anti conservative but also no friend of Canada.
CBC is not biased.
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Golly, that was the best laugh I have had in a while..
Oh yes, kady... off the top of my head, I remember her live blogging witnesses in the detainee committee.
ReplyDeleteWhen Peter McKay spoke, she quit blogging the testimony and started talking about what people were wearing.
Shoddy stuff, but she is nothing more than a blogger really, adhearing to no rules she doesn't make up.
We've talked about this. I've even heard lefties ask for this kind of review or analysis but they think they will find out something different.
ReplyDeleteIts time we brought together people and ideas and mobilize towards fixing this problem.
Guess what the MPs don't want the AG to see:
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MPs don't want we little folk to jump to conclusions that could hurt an MPs reputation....never mind if you are a conservative or the military, eh
really?
ReplyDeleteWell, Holy Moly! Who is she? What must the Nation of Canada really think. That girl has got to go, and not to the nearest day care center! The CBC is a Canadian Black elephant being paid with Tax payer dollars.
ReplyDeleteThe Conservative Party and Prime Minister Harper would have a GREAT Legacy if they were to dismantle CBC TV.
The CBC is crying foul over G8 Summit spending. I a Canadian tax payer say the same about the CBC spending, and they are forever digging up dirt concerning the Conservative Party.
The CBC loves those Grits, (Iggy) no matter how blatantly wrong they really are. Why is it, the CBC always refers to the Conservative Government as the Harper Government?
Oh! I forgot to say this; the entire world says Canada has got its business in good order, even better than that of the USA. But the CBC and CTV won't give credit where credit is due.
The CBC are trying like hell to take on the look and get the ratings of CNN. Well, the CNN ratings are taking a plunge too. Look it up.
I am a Canadian, and have been for seventy years. Why do I have to keep on paying the CBC to keep insulting my intelligence?
The CBC is very good at making it hard to pin point the bias . They will say things like ( The lib's brought up the FACT THAT ....... and then say the con's CLAIM THAT ....... making it sound as if the what the lib's said is true and fact but what the con's said is not.G.C.
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