Jan 5, 2025 01:10 AM
(This post was last modified: Jan 5, 2025 01:13 AM by C C.)
There have been allegations of the Canadian Broadcasting Company having a political bias. But that's no different from NPR's preference for Democratic Party agendas. Yet in contrast, NPR only receives one percent directly to potentially 23 percent indirectly from the US government. Whereas it's a significantly larger percentage for the CBC (ergo Gunter's ululating about taxpayers).
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INTRO: The Sun's political columnist Lorne Gunter tells us about all the extra fat at the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC), and why the broadcaster should be embarrassed handing out executive bonuses.
VIDEO EXCERPT: In total the CBC has1200 -- nearly 1,200 executives and managers for an organization of just over 10,000 people. It's a ridiculous ratio of bosses to workers. No wonder it costs them 1.4 billion a year in tax dollars to keep the place running.
But you want to know the real insult to taxpayers? 97% of those executives and managers get bonuses averaging $177,000 a year. How in Heaven's name does 97% of them qualify?
It's crazy. They say that it is performance-based. Yeah, well then you must have set the standards for performance so low that everybody but a few misfits didn't qualify...
The CBC should be embarrassed ... https://youtu.be/3RQAm8GlLQQ
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/3RQAm8GlLQQ
Twitter label controversy: On April 17, 2023, the main CBC account on Twitter was labeled as "government-funded media". In response, CBC announced they would cease its usage of Twitter, similarly to NPR after the initial controversy surrounding Elon Musk's decisions as Twitter CEO.
Later, Elon Musk tweeted that in response to CBC's claim that they were "less than 70% government-funded", Twitter was changing the label to "69% government-funded media". According to the CBC annual revenue report, 70.6% of revenue came from parliamentary spending in 2019–2020, while 65.6% of revenue came in 2021–2022, and 66.7% came in 2023.
On May 9, 2023, the CBC announced that it would resume partial activity on some of its Twitter accounts.
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INTRO: The Sun's political columnist Lorne Gunter tells us about all the extra fat at the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC), and why the broadcaster should be embarrassed handing out executive bonuses.
VIDEO EXCERPT: In total the CBC has1200 -- nearly 1,200 executives and managers for an organization of just over 10,000 people. It's a ridiculous ratio of bosses to workers. No wonder it costs them 1.4 billion a year in tax dollars to keep the place running.
But you want to know the real insult to taxpayers? 97% of those executives and managers get bonuses averaging $177,000 a year. How in Heaven's name does 97% of them qualify?
It's crazy. They say that it is performance-based. Yeah, well then you must have set the standards for performance so low that everybody but a few misfits didn't qualify...
The CBC should be embarrassed ... https://youtu.be/3RQAm8GlLQQ
Twitter label controversy: On April 17, 2023, the main CBC account on Twitter was labeled as "government-funded media". In response, CBC announced they would cease its usage of Twitter, similarly to NPR after the initial controversy surrounding Elon Musk's decisions as Twitter CEO.
Later, Elon Musk tweeted that in response to CBC's claim that they were "less than 70% government-funded", Twitter was changing the label to "69% government-funded media". According to the CBC annual revenue report, 70.6% of revenue came from parliamentary spending in 2019–2020, while 65.6% of revenue came in 2021–2022, and 66.7% came in 2023.
On May 9, 2023, the CBC announced that it would resume partial activity on some of its Twitter accounts.