Khar Khar:
I dont know, Zipperfish -- while this province may have coloured my view a bit, even when I lived in Ontario it felt like the media was left leaning, and I'm fairly lefty myself in a number of ways. As one or two other folks who are left leaners have said in this thread so far, they also feel that there tends to be a direction in which the CBC leans which is farther left than them.
It just seems that, stuff which was sort of glanced at but moved past by the media in the nineties and early 2000s back when I lived in Ontario just isn't missed by the media now with a new party in power.
Of course, everything's relative, but as a publicly funded broadcaster, it's hoped that this media center would stay as objective as possible. I guess the ardent support you often find on the CBC website from the left (and more often than not the crazy left) in the comments section don't help either.
Even if the political center has shifted a bit, then I'd hope CBC has been staying off the political spectrum altogether -- I do feel they have gone farther left than where the center really is, and even then it shouldn't matter. I don't think this is the right way to go about making sure the CBC stays middle of the road, but at least the headline will hopefully make some people think more critically of the articles they read in any of the national newspapers.
I think that you are honest in your assessment ("It seems to me..." "It felt like..."). You recognize in assessing the bias in a newscast,., that your own inherent biases also come into play.
Unfortunately, it's moved from "It seems like that the media are left-leaning" to an assertion of fact "The media are left wing." When asked to provide evidence, it always comes back to "It seems..." or "it feels..." -- personal, subjective terms.
Strategically, the trope of a left-leaning media is a good thing for the right. Judging by the ratings/readership of the various news media, it just doesn't stand up to scrutiny.
The media always have been and always will be activists. Maybe the myth of the left-leaning media comes from the idea that the left used to be more likely to be activist? Who knows. But that has switched now. It is now the political right that is the activist end of the political spectrum.
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