Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)

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CBC left-wing?
McMurtry, John
Article
Cuts, Canadian Culture and the CBC
Berton, Pierre
Article
1986
Canadian drams gives us a sense of community.
Democracy's Oxygen: How Corporations Control the News
Winter, James
Book
1997
Winter shows that far from providing "democracy's oxygen," the news media legitimize a fundamentally undemocratic system. Instead of keeping the public informated, news organizations manufacture publi...
Media Think
Winter, James
Book
2000
Increasingly the news media are owned by a small group of very large corporations with extensive interests outside the industry, run by the corporate elite.Winter argues that instead of offering diver...
The Missing News: Filters and Blind Spots in Canada's Press
Hackett, Robert A.; Gruneau, Richard; with Donald Gutstein, Timothy A. Gibson and Newswatch Canada
Book
2000
Asks a number of questions, including: How well do the news media filter reality, for what purposes, through what processes and in whose interests? How do newspapers and TV stations choose what news i...
The Movement and the Sixties
Anderson, Terry H.
Book
1995
Drawing on interviews, manuscripts, and archives, Anderson reveals how one event built upon another and exploed into the kaleidoscope of activism in the United States by the early 1970s. Civil rights,...
One-sided discussion of free trade avoids key issues
Diemer, Ulli
Article
1988
'Business' is also about the people who actually work in the offices, factories, and farms, who are so profoundly affected by what happens in the world of capital.
Petitions next to useless in campaign to defend CBC
fillmore, Nick
Article
2013
Pressure groups put a lot of effort into petitions, but the question is - does sending petitions have any effect. Are they just wasting everyone's time?
Sign Crimes/Road Kill: From Mediascape to Landscape
Nelson, Joyce
Book
1992
A collection of thirty short essays by Joyce Nelson, a writer specializing in the politics of the mass media.
Spinwars: Politics and New Media
Fox, Bill
Book
1999
An examination of media manipulation in late 20th Century North American politics.
Underground Times
Verzuh, Ron
Book
1989
The story of Canadian 'underground' newspapers of the 1960s.
What needs to happen to save and rebuild the CBC
Fillmore, Nick
Article
2014
Can the CBC be saved and restored? Probably. But it will take some time and some good luck, as well as some heavy duty political lobbying. It is important that CBC supporters, including those who hav...
Why does the CBC invariably turn to American experts to explain any issue?
Diemer, Ulli
Article
1993
Based on what we hear on the CBC, we can only assume that there is an internal policy manual which mandates that all discussions on issues of more than strictly local importance must include at least ...

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The Cultural Industries in Canada
Problems, Policies and Prospects
Dorland, Michael (ed.)
1996
Dorland discusses policy problems specific to the Canadian cultural industries that produce cultural commodities, such as books, films and television programs.
In The News
The Practice of Media Relations in Canada
Carney, William Wray
2002
Carney gives everyone, from student to seasoned practitioner, a thorough understanding of who the media are, how they work and how to approach them with stories.
A Letter to CBC: Your Biased Coverage of the Land Day Massacre
The following letter was sent yesterday to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation regarding their biased coverage of the Land Day massacre
Kawas, Hanna
2018
Chairperson of the Canada Palestine Association, Hanna Kawas, presents a letter to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, alleging editorial interference by pro-Israel lobbying group 'Honest Reporting...
Television news cuts at CBC will hurt Canadians
2014
The Canadian Association of Journalists expresses its concern over the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s decision to reduce its workforce in coming years by up to 1,500 employees.

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MediaSources.ca
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2017
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