‘Shaming The CBC’ : a righteous culture, un-self-critical and without shame

utterly UN-SELF-CRITICAL

I hope - dear reader - that you never thought that I wrote 150 GW blog posts (and hundreds more Facebook GW screeds) for you.

I directed them all, pamphleteering lobs, at the government station, at the CBC, to do their job, to do the job our tax dollars pay them to do.

That job is not to protect the rich and powerful and the RCMP ; we already have CTV and Global for that.

But the Ceeb, internally, is an un-self-critical righteous culture, never easy to shame.

Once they set the goalposts of ‘legitimate controversy’ to use Daniel Hallin’s famous term, they are like granite in never budging off their determination to only give us the news the CBC figures we should be allowed to hear.

Twice - in 1984 and again this Spring, I helped shame the CBC into expanding what they felt was ‘legitimate controversy’ that we should be allowed to discuss.

But it was a hell of a lot of work : in 1984, I actually got pneumonia while doing so.

But now that CBC NS is finally publicly confirming what most Nova Scotians have been privately talking about for the last few weeks, (the “OPEN SECRET” of a freely-online Macleans Magazine article for God’s sake !) I feel my job is done : this blog is back to its regular programming.....