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Originally posted by DeltAlum
By the way, correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought CBC (and maybe even BBC) are partially commercially supported due to cutbacks on government budgets. My memory could be wrong on that.
Kind of like PBS and NPR which now get little or no government funding and have to resort to commercial underwriting.
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True the operating costs are not totally supported by the government anymore... and technically haven't been since the late 60s.
However you and I could agree that these networks don't operate as an organization where profit is a primary (or even major) concern... which is what seperates them from say a wholely private business concern with all the attendant need to monitor both the bottom-line and profitability. In much the same way as a totally government funded and operated media orginization will always keep their eye on the government's agenda... if the journalism is beholden to a large degree to either the government or the dollar - then the journalism can be too easily "tainted" or stray from the path of objectitivity (or appearance of
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I like the ABC, CBC, and BBC for the fact that they aren't "subject" to the whims of anyone major concern - they can remain in the "gray zone" and avoid undue influence (well mostly).