Shame on CBC Host Michael Enright

Shame on CBC Host Michael Enright for using the Corona virus pandemic to criticize Israel and to falsely portray Gaza as the world’s “biggest open-air prison”.

Just last week we reported that CBC Radio host Carol Off used the Corona virus pandemic as an excuse to tacitly criticize Israel. This week, another CBC host, Michael Enright, did the same on his Sunday Edition radio show.

On March 29, Michael Enright declared that Gaza is the world’s biggest open-air prison in a discussion about the affects that the Corona virus is having on impoverished regions around the world and those at states of war.

As is commonly known, Israel and Egypt’s blockade of the Gaza Strip isn’t pretty, but let’s face it, the genocidal Hamas terror organization runs Gaza and it’s committed to the Jewish state’s destruction, it doesn’t recognize Israel’s existence and commits daily terror attacks targeting Israeli innocents. That’s why Gaza has been effectively hermetically sealed by Egypt and Israel as Hamas and its terror partners continue firing rockets and trying to smuggle weapons into the Strip via land, tunnels or by sea.

Naturally, none of this was acknowledged by Enright in his interview with Paul Rogers (pictured right), a U.K. security expert and peace studies professor on geopolitics during the pandemic.

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CBC Host Carol Off Uses Corona Virus to Tacitly Criticize Israel

Carol Off, the host of CBC Radio’s “As It Happens” program, is known for her animus towards Israel. It was not surprising to see her show use the Coronva virus pandemic as a pretext to tacitly criticize the Jewish state.

The March 19 broadcast of the program saw Off interview Dr. Tarek Loubani, a notorious anti-Israel activist and self-described Palestinian-Canadian who is working in Gaza to make 3D-printed face shields for COVID-19. According to the CBC: “Dr. Tarek Loubani runs the Glia Project, which produces low-cost medical supplies for impoverished regions.”

In one fell swoop, Loubani assimilated the Corona virus pandemic that has killed thousands, made sick hundreds of thousands, and brought the world to a standstill – to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Naturally, Ms. Off did not challenge this offensive comparison, instead, she described Gaza as “… often a tense conflict zone and it’s a place where he’s (Loubani is) forced to get creative with limited resources. ” and concluded her interview by saying to Loubani: “I admire your courage and you’re into ingenuity.”

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Just when the CBC could really help Canadians, it lets them down

During the coronavirus crisis, people need to hear about what’s going on in their own communities, from the people they have come to know.

The ability of the CBC to wound itself, to find ways to alienate its audience, reduce its impact, sometimes even drive viewers and listeners away from its services, is a fascinating subject.

I refer to CBC management’s fiat to close down all local supper-hour news shows.

Now instead of the double-band, national plus local, all news will come from the one over-lit and superfluously hosted national studio, as remote as remote can be from the wide, diverse and scattered regions of this great country.

Just when local news in your own region (wherever that is) matters the most, CBC pulls it? Now more than ever, people need to hear what’s going on in their own communities and provinces from the very people, on-air and technical, they have come to know.

Toronto-centric news transmission is not a solution for the CBC; it has always been the problem.

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HRC Complaint leads to Pro-Israel Analyst Interview

On November 10, CBC Sunday Edition aired a 30-minute anti-Israel invective that centered largely on replacing the world’s only Jewish state with an Arab-majority, Palestinian-run country.

At the time, HonestReporting Canada filed a complaint with senior executives at CBC News and called on Mr. Enright and The Sunday Edition to invite an Israeli expert onto the program who can strongly articulate Israel’s position on all the controversial and nonsensical issues raised by Noura Erakat.

Fast forward to March 15, The Sunday Edition produced a 30-minute segment with acclaimed Israeli author, commentator and political analyst, Yossi Klein Halevi, a senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute entitled: “How Israel’s politics and peace process became so stalled”.

While the CBC’s interview with Mr. Klein Halevi did not serve as a direct rebuttal to Noura Erekat’s anti-Israel invective, it did nonetheless provide CBC viewers with an informed and nuanced pro-Israel perspective, along with a critical analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Israeli politics.

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CBC Seeks Ratings From Uninspiring Game Show

No doubt there’s a multitude of Canadian channel surfers who accidentally find themselves watching CBC’s old-is-new again but supposedly advertiser-friendly, Family Feud Canada, hosted by Gerard Francis Donoghue.

That’s Gerry Dee, for CBC non-watchers, the Toronto gym teacher turned stand-up comedian who has hosted a number of forgettable CBC shows — forgettable because I have never watched one of them to the end.

I do not watch TV for pap. I watch it primarily for the news, and then to be entertained, which has rarely happened on Canada’s national broadcaster.

Family Feud Canada is all about increasing ratings for the CBC.

For me, it’s all about REM sleep. I watch it for a minute or two, then my eyes get heavy, and the next thing I know I am fast asleep and dreaming about rescuing fair maidens from the barbarians.

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CBC appears to struggle with its own sense of identity

According to their most recent submission to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), CBC/Radio Canada brings in about $300 million in advertising. A great deal of that advertising appears to be of the bargain basement variety, particularly on CBC Newsnet, where the audience appears to range from those requiring walk-in baths to self-styled elite singles seeking companionship.

Even this revenue appears to be in a state of irreversible decline. The response to that by the CBC, naturally, is to seek foriegn programming to build audiences in the most desired advertising markets such as the GTA. At which point sensible people throw their hands in the air and wonder: what, then, is the actual point of the CBC?

At times, CBC television appears to have struggled with its own sense of identity.

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Public confidence in CBC is at an all-time low

The national state broadcaster has claimed that we blur ethical lines. While we appreciate the attention of the CBC, partisanship is an interesting charge coming from them, a major outlet that continues to take hundreds of millions of your tax dollars while spreading woke social justice messages and left-leaning content on an hourly basis.

The argument is that we exist in a “grey area” between journalism and “pamphleteering.” In their attempt to establish this argument, they dust off Alan Conter, a professor of journalism from Concordia University. Conter claims that transparency is key, and that what we do is “less journalism and more pamphleteering.” What CBC and Conter fail to disclose is that Conter is a former CBC executive producer. Conter is right about one thing: Transparency is key. We wonder why CBC wasn’t transparent about this connection.

This all comes at a time when public confidence in the state-funded broadcaster is at an all-time low. The public sees the slow dance between legacy media like the CBC and the Trudeau government. It’s right there in plain view, under a spotlight. It’s almost romantic.

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CBC nothing but a Liberal propaganda machine

The CBC receives a 1.2 billion dollar a year handout by the federal government funded by taxpayers.

Last year, they ‘earned’ $58 million in advertising revenue, down from the $114 million in 2014.


And what the hell is the 1.2 billion being spent on??? It’s certainly not ‘content’ or fair, equal, unbiased reporting.

They claim they are the ‘state broadcaster’ and ‘want to reach out to all Canadians’. Yet, they are nothing but a Liberal propaganda machine.

There are 36 million people living in our country, and the CBC’s viewership in 2019 went down to 269,000.

That means, that only .0074% of Canadians care to listen to, or watch their Liberal drivel.

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CBC competes for viewers and advertising income

Online is where it’s at. There, CBC/Radio Canada goes toe to toe with traditional broadcasters and newspapers fighting for readers, viewers, listeners and, most of all, dollars. That’s where it sows. And that’s where it reaps.

And that’s where, if something needs to be “done” about CBC – which, in both the online and television worlds, is a full-blown commercial operator – it should be done.

The nation’s television broadcasting world has forever been distorted by the existence of a publicly-funded entity such as CBC that competes not only for viewers but for advertising income. It has always been entirely unfair to the private sector that its own tax dollars are used to compete against it.

Publicly-funded radio may compete with the private sector for listeners but never for money.

About 40 per cent of Canada’s advertising dollars are spent online, making that medium by far the most dominant, followed by TV a good 10 points behind, then radio and newspapers. That means that by employing an aggressive online strategy, CBC now competes for a share of about 70 per cent of the advertising dollars at play in the market.

So newspapers, radio and other Internet platforms are now, in addition to television companies, paying taxes that subsidize their competition to their detriment.

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The problems with the CBC are threefold

The CBC license is up for renewal and the debate is (again) on. Is it fair to keep public funding for this broadcaster? Or, more bluntly, do we need the CBC?

There is no doubt that the CBC has a rich history of accomplishments since its creation in 1936, in terms of production of quality shows and as a springboard for worldwide renowned artists. However, since the beginning of the eighties, the game has changed, and the CBC has increasing difficulties to play a significant role. They are losing ground domestically and our Canadian talents need to move to the South to pursue their international quest for stardom.

The problems with the CBC are threefold. First, they are unable, just like most other broadcaster, to better use the new technology. Second, they don’t have the proper content. The CBC wants to talk about Canada but it’s trying too hard to shape Canadians into something they still don’t know. And third, it is the mentality of the Corporation. Economic entitlement, lack of reward for those working hard and diligently (and there are many), no consequences for incompetent and irresponsible employers, too much bureaucracy inside and too much politicking.

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CBC - Credibility Shot, Ratings Plummeting

The National has made a strong argument for its demise. Its four-person electric hedgehog is bumping along, often at about half the audience former host Mansbridge drew in his final years on the network’s flagship TV news show. While some of this might be attributed to the general bleed of viewers everywhere, you don’t see the same carnage at CTV’s flagship news show The CTV National News.

What’s most galling about The National’s collapse is that, during the 2016 federal election, CBC executives begged Justin Trudeau for $1.5 billion to restore the publicly funded radio/TV behemoth to its former status. If they had the money radio and TV would soar once more. When the PM complied, the Corp instead poured the money into bigfooting private outlets in the new digital/ social media field.

Now a day rarely goes by without the formerly cash-strapped CBC hiring a former newspaper reporter to bloat its massive profile on the web. It has squeezed the oxygen out of the opposition, positioning itself as the heavyweight in digital. Hardly a fair fight— and using public funds.

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