CBC is a crown corporations. WE, canadians, own it. It is OURS and it is INDEPENDANT JOURNALISM. Crown corporations are wholly owned federal or provincial organizations that are structured like private or independent companies. They include enterprises such as the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), VIA Rail, Canada Post and the Bank of Canada; as well as various provincial electric utilities. Crown corporations have greater freedom from direct political control than government departments.
PP do not understand the difference between publicly funded and ‘state’ funded. The government transfers Canadian taxpayer money to the CBC which operates separately from government. The government does not control the CBC. This simple distinction is beyond his limited intellect.
CBC is PUBLICLY funded!! Therefore, yes the funds are funnelled through the govt, but not govt state media. We will leave that to fox propaganda news and post media that is owned by the USA ultra right wing.
Postmedia is owned by Hedge fund billionaires allied with Trump and pushing MAGA propaganda.
an informed population capable of asking questions and forming their own opinions is antithetical to the owner class's agenda. everyone who consumes any mainstream media (and everyone who doesn't) should read the book Propaganda by eddie bernays, the "father of public relations." bernays wrote in favor of propaganda as a good and necessary thing for a functioning society. but he spells it all out, how to control the opinions of the public. goebbels utilized bernays's methods, and you can see the results
they're doing it again. it's a conspiracy, but there's nothing "theory" about it. if nothing else whatsoever, you should be questioning and scrutinizing everything you read from every source. yes, including lemmy. but it's probably too late to stop anything set in motion years ago. it's not "if" blood in the streets will happen, but "when"