Pull down the Mother Corp (CBC)
The CBC will never be able to exorcize its left-wing missionary zeal — for global warming, for Islam, for big government, Barack Obama, multiculturalism, public health care, human rights commissions and so on.
And it could never survive on private donations or ad revenues. So the only thing to do with Mother Corp is to pull down its office buildings and stations and pour salt in their foundations. And I mean radio as well as television.
There is no moral or philosophical justification for using one billion of taxpayers’ dollars to subsidize the viewing and listening tastes of a shrinking percentage of the population and the ideological hobby horses of CBC executives and editors.
Would you favour hundreds of millions of your hard-earned dollars going to subsidize Crossroads Television System (CTS), the Christian service with stations in Ontario and Alberta?
Or how about al-Jazeera, the English-language Arab station that now has a place in Canada’s channel lineup?
Neither is anymore overtly biased […]