The CBC continues to operate in a wasteful, bias manner serving the socialist left wing mandate only while continuing to lose viewers and advertising revenues. Scandals continue. An unsettling, ugly anti Semitic movement has grown in the CBC News operation, history experts will know that this troubling bias can have devastating results for our country. Act now- contact your MP, the PMO and the CBC to stop this frightening socialist anti Semitic driven bias now.
Disgruntled CBC workers continue to confidentially share their stories with us, reports of management snooping, waste, huge salaries for select senior management, content bias, low employee morale continue in 2021 and we will expose these activities in our blog while protecting our whistleblower contacts. We take joy in knowing that the CBC-HQ visits us daily to spy on us, read our stories and to find out who owns our for the Canadian people blog.
One of our most popular posts continues to be the epic Dr. Leenen case against the Fifth Estate (the largest libel legal case ever awarded against the media in Canadian history) yet where no one at CBC was fired and taxpayers paid the huge award and legal costs for this blatant CBC Libel action. Writers and filmmakers -this is a Perfect story for an award winning Documentary -ok - who would fund it and where would it air since the CBC owns the Documentary channel! Can you help? Please contact us.
cbcExposed continues to enjoy substantial visitors coming from Universities and Colleges across Canada who use us for research in debates, exams, etc.
We ask students to please join with us in this mission; you have the power to make a difference! And so can private broadcasters who we know are hurting from the dwindling Advertising revenue pool and the CBC taking money from that pool while also unfairly getting massive Tax subsidies money. It's time to stop being silent and start speaking up Bell-CTV, Shaw-Global, Rogers, etc.
Our cbcExposed Twitter followers and visitors to cbcExposed continue to motivate us to expose CBC’s abuse and waste of tax money as well as exposing their ongoing left wing bully-like anti-sematic news bias. Polls meanwhile show that Canadians favour selling the wasteful government owned media giant and to put our tax money to better use for all Canadians. The Liberals privatized Petro Canada and Air Canada; it’s time for the Trudeau Liberals to privatize the CBC- certainly not give them more of our tax money-enough is enough!
The CBC network’s ratings continue to plummet while their costs and our taxpayer bailout subsidies continue to go up! In 2021 what case can be made for the Government to be in the broadcasting business, competing unfairly with the private sector? The CBC receives advertising and cable/satellite fees-fees greater than CTV and Global but this is not enough for the greedy CBC who also receive more than a billion dollars of your tax money every year. That’s about $100,000,000 (yes, $100 MILLION) of our taxes taken from your pay cheques every 30 days and with no CBC accountability to taxpayers.
Wake up! What does it take for real change at the CBC? YOU! Our blog contains a link to the Politicians contact info for you to make your voice heard. Act now and contact your MP, the Cabinet and Prime Minister ... tell them to stop wasting your money on a biased, failing media service, and ... sell the CBC.
Exposed - CBC has no strategy
Instead of a strategy, CBC has an agenda. The agenda is to shrink the CBC. Before he became president of CBC, Hubert Lacroix, told Parliament it was his job to find new sources of revenue but after taking the job he said CBC doesn't need more money.
This month CBC submitted a document to the Committee and a 90-page slide presentation that contained contradictions, errors and misleading information.
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Exposed - CBC News Lacks Guidelines
Complaint:
The CBC's Office of the Ombudsman received 66 complaints about a reporter supposedly feeding questions to a member or members of the Liberal Party during a committee hearing featuring testimony by former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.
CBC Ombudsman Conclusion:
Trading information in developing stories is not, per se, a violation of policy. However, when trading can be viewed as direct prompting to action by someone else, CBC's policy on Credibility comes into play since such an action could cause “a reasonable apprehension of bias.”
CBC News lacks sufficiently clear guidelines on conduct within legislative press galleries.
Read the full report here.
Exposed - CBC National Admits Error
What follows is a formal reply CBC National sent to HRC Board Member Robert Sarner (his reply below too) which saw our public broadcaster’s flagship program acknowledge its error in suggesting that Tel Aviv is Israel’s capital city in a January 23 report (watch by clicking here or see appended below) by Nahlah Ayed on the death of Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah.
Though CBC should be commended for acknowledging its mistake, regretfully and despite a request for an on-air corrective to be issued, the CBC has opted to privately acknowledge its error and not publicly atone for its mistake.
Read the full story and reply here.
Exposed - CBC cuts, repeats and self inflicted wounds
On CBC Radio, there are more repeats than ever. Some programs - like the international affairs program, "Dispatches" - have been cancelled. Radio drama and recordings of live musical performances are but a memory. In television, all production, with the exception of news, is being outsourced. The CBC is evolving into a commissioner and distributor of content, instead of a creator.
Then there are the self-inflicted wounds: the firing and subsequent criminal charges brought against former "Q" host Jian Ghomeshi, and the outcry over paid speaking engagements by CBC journalists. Outside, even those who care about the CBC are appalled. Its critics - and there are many - say it's time to turn out the lights. Inside, morale has never been lower. All of this is taking place against the backdrop of a technological revolution that is devastating traditional media around the world.
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CBC Hopes to become a tenant
But it’s not totally jumping ship — the public broadcaster hopes to stay on as a tenant.
As part of the 2012 federal cuts, the government called on the CBC to reduce its real estate holdings to cut costs. In response, the CBC pledged to cut 800,000 square feet by 2017, including reducing office space at Radio-Canada headquarters in Montreal.
The CBC did not anticipate having to sell its Toronto headquarters at the time. But that has changed.
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Exposed - CBC loses defamation suit
Late last week he won $30,000 from the CBC, Canada’s public broadcaster, for a TV news show that said he wanted to kill homosexuals. “I thought they would get off, or that I would only get $1. Their lawyer was that good,” Whatcott told LifeSiteNews via cell phone, as he distributed more flyers (and what he calls “Christian condoms”) at the University of Regina on Monday.
“It’s one thing to call me an a-hole,” said Whatcott. “Media outlets say that all the time though I don’t agree with them. But that’s not libellous. And if I say homosexuals are sinners, that’s free speech. But if I say all homosexuals want to sexually assault children, that’s libel. And when the CBC says I want to kill all homosexuals, that’s libel too.”
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PS - we are reporting on this story not to support Whatcott views but merely to report on yet another example of journalistic abuse by the CBC.
Exposed - CBC employees hate conservative values
Prime Minister Stephen Harper says "a lot" of Radio-Canada employees "hate" conservative values.
Harper says those values that are loathed by many employees of CBC's French-language network are the same ones that he says are supported by a large number of Quebecers.
Harper made the comments during a French-language interview with Quebec City radio station FM93, conducted last Friday and aired today.
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CBC president Hubert Lacroix avoids details
CBC president Hubert Lacroix largely avoided providing details of the CBC probe underway into harassment allegations in the Jian Ghomeshi affair. Questions about this from senators were largely ruled out of order by the committee’s chairman though there were testy exchanges between senators and Lacroix.
The committee is studying the challenges facing the CBC in a changing media landscape.
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CBC President Hubert Lacroix to face Senate committee
Jian Ghomeshi's name is expected to come up as senators question Lacroix, Heather Conway, the head of English services, and Louis Lalonde, the head of French services.
The executives may also be asked about Amanda Lang, who was recently at the centre of a controversy about speaking fees and conflict of-interest.
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Exposed - CBC credibility damaged
Business host Amanda Lang has been accused of conflicts of interest with firms she covers. She denies all wrongdoing but the controversy has further damaged the CBC’s credibility.
CBC commentator Rex Murphy has been accused of taking money from the oil industry for speeches, while he denies the science behind climate change. The National’s anchor, Peter Mansbridge, has been criticized for accepting money for public speaking.
Making the situation worse, the CBC’s senior managers fumbled the response to the burgeoning Ghomeshi scandal. The corporation’s top radio executive and its head of human resources were both suspended indefinitely for their mishandling of the egotistical star.
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Exposed - not all is ok at CBC
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Exposed - CBC News outsources weather
"CBC News is a trusted source for news and information, and we're pleased to be joining forces with another trusted brand and reaching and engaging new audiences across the country," said Jennifer McGuire, General Manager and Editor in Chief, CBC News and Centres. "CBC is always finding ways to deliver content to Canadians in more innovative and efficient ways, and this new partnership with The Weather Network is a reflection of that," added Neil McEneaney, Chief Business Officer, CBC English Services.
The Weather Network will provide weather updates on CBC News Network throughout the day and at the end of The National on CBC-TV and CBC News Network, including expanded weather reports on CBC Toronto on weekends. The Weather Network, based out of its Oakville studios, will also supply weather reports to CBC News Express broadcasts in eight Canadian airports.
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CBC President Hubert Lacroix will do less with less
Top CBC brass on Thursday afternoon laid out how the pubcaster will do less with less after unveiling yet another round of cost cutting to balance its books for 2014-15.
He said the CBC had to change the way it delivers content nationwide, and at what cost, “because right now the revenue line doesn’t support the infrastructure we have.”
The CBC will also no longer be doing big-budget, “shiny floor, elimination” shows.
Instead, the CBC will look to lower-budget formats that don’t require it to bet the farm.
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Exposed - More trouble at CBC
HR professionals at the CBC have certainly had a tough time of it lately – the company is still at the centre of the Jian Ghomeshi scandal that shocked the nation - and now disgruntled journalists have refused an internal award in protest to job cuts.
The Sherbrooke, Quebec newsroom had been selected to receive the President’s Award in the “Audience First” category, for their coverage of the Lac-Megantic disaster, but the team of approximately 60 employees chose not to accept the accolade.
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CBC President Hubert Lacroix refuses calls to resign
Lacroix was eager to insist the CBC’s current woes were not self-inflicted, but shared across the industry, and globally, saying that the Canadian financing model for traditional conventional TV is endangered by a fast-changing digital landscape.
That means the CBC will reduce its infrastructure footprint to free up dollars for new digital and mobile content.
And it will mean a smaller workforce by 2020.
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Exposed - CBC numbers don't make sense
The real story is CBC could do better with even less if they were more efficient.
In Charlottetown, PEI with a census agglomeration of 64,000, CBC says it takes 37 journalists to report on the Legislature alone. That does not count other journalists, technical and administrative staff and management. 90 people work at CBC Charlottetown.
At CBC Hamilton, Ontario, the large industrial city west of Toronto, 7 people do the same job of getting the news out. How big is Hamilton to have such a small newsroom? 720,000 people live in the metropolitan area and that does not include adjacent areas like Oakville and Kitchener-Waterloo.
Why does Charlottetown need 5 times as many people to do the same job as Hamilton?
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Exposed - Has CBC lost faith of Canadians
CBC releases financial and other data to the media which often leads to inaccurate reports.
CBC has also released incorrect information to the media about the number of staff it has and the number cut in the past few years.
Misinformation and cuts to radio have alienated many CBC supporters and caused a major rift between CBC staff and management and CBC radio and TV staff.
More transparency about its finances, staff and audiences and less defensive analysis from consultants might be a start to restoring Canadians' faith in the public broadcaster.
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Exposed - toxic CBC environment
In the past month, public airings of internal CBC dysfunction have become a national spectacle—allegations from current and former Q staffers of Ghomeshi’s abusive behaviour that includes a charge of sexual harassment; leaked memos that banned (and then unbanned) former CBC-TV host Linden MacIntyre from the airwaves for daring to mention that Peter Mansbridge was “no shrinking violet” when discussing Ghomeshi and the “toxic” atmosphere at CBC. The gong show continued this week, as the Canadian Media Guild (CMG), the CBC employee union, sent a memo cautioning members from participating in a third-party investigation into Ghomeshi’s behaviour at the CBC conducted by lawyer Janice Rubin—a measure ostensibly intended to bring clarity, resolution and new proactive policy recommendations. The union threw a spanner into the process, airing concern that Rubin’s recordings of conversations with CBC staff may “be provided to CBC management” who could use them “to discipline the employee being interviewed.”
Inside the CBC, the grim mood is exacerbated by a sense that public trust is eroding at a delicate and crucial time. “Why should anyone think anyone competent is working in the CBC right now?” one frustrated employee asks. “We may as well run a CBC doomsday clock.” Beyond the CBC’s walls, the scandal, and the Crown corporation’s handling of it, has laid bare a complex ecosystem: a labyrinthine bureaucracy that seemed to permit all manner of wrongdoing; a destabilized workforce shaken by some $230 million in funding cuts over the past three years that made it vulnerable to the demands of a coddled star; a management that seems determined to stand by its faulty decisions—if it says anything at all. President Hubert Lacroix has been largely absent as the biggest scandal in years has engulfed his organization.
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CBC conduct exposed as grotesque
Mansbridge’s speech, ostensibly about the value and necessity of investigative journalism, was a daisy chain of clichés, stitched together by a “chief correspondent” who rarely, if ever, has done any investigative reporting himself.
Mansbridge delivered essentially the same speech in Ottawa recently and, once again, everyone applauded. Everyone but Jeanylyn Lopez, a second-year Sheridan College journalism student who, with one question, revealed that Mansbridge and his 25-minute long ode to “holding power to account” were full of hooey.
Lopez asked Mansbridge whether he, his CBC colleague Amanda Lang and disgraced ex-Global newsreader Leslie Roberts had undermined their journalistic integrity and betrayed viewers’ trust by engaging in ethically questionable practices.
The coup de gras was delivered by The Guardian’s George Monbiot, who described CBC’s conduct as “grotesque” and “symptomatic of a much wider problem in journalism: those who are supposed to scrutinise the financial and political elite are embedded within it.”
(When CBC News honchos lost The Guardian — the news industry’s true paper of record — they surely knew the game was up.)
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CBC Exposed as talking a good game
If there was a single cow flop in the vast field of Canadian broadcasting, CBC managers would find a way to step in it.
Those making the decisions have shown over the past six months they have an exceptional ability to take a bad situation and make it immediately worse.
Their blunders have no doubt brought much joy to the hearts of those who have weathered being the subject of unflattering news stories.
They've also managed to bring much embarrassment to their own employees.
While the mismanagement and conflicts of interest were obvious, the CBC's response to all of them was the same tired, corporate dodge for which it routinely criticizes others.
The CBC talks a good game. It argues for transparency from governments and others it covers. Yet the corporation itself is about as transparent as a block of wood.
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Reader letter to cbc Exposed
I have listened to CBC radio for around 40 years now and they certainly have lost their way. They are no longer a positive upbeat network meant to unite Canadians. Now they are a partisan political left wing group of propagandists that are a force that divides Canadians. Many of the radio personalities also try to dump all of the worlds troubles on our doorstep, trying to make us feel guilty. I don`t understand how the private broadcasters can sit by and watch how the CBC gets advertising revenue and taxpayers support without complaining. It is such an unfair advantage.
The CBC either needs to be privatized or completely reworked to ensure it is politically neutral and that it has a very limited budget to only provide basic things. It was a great network before the advent of satellite and the internet uniting a huge landmass but its time has come and gone. I also do not like how the CBC has created left wing stars like Gomeshi using my tax dollars.
The CBC has strayed from its mandate of being available to all Canadians. I cancelled my satellite TV service because it is too expensive. So now I only get one channel over the air here in Kelowna, Global TV, a private company. The CBC should be available over the air here too.
Before I saw your website and even before The Sun News network expose on the CBC, I had come to the conclusion that the CBC had been corrupted and ruined. The entire staff there should be fired.
Please keep up the good work.
Mark