Monday, July 3, 2023

CBC News drops news for 24/7 clickbait format

I checked into CBC News early this morning and was puzzled by what I didn't see. Argueably the most important stories in the world this morning were Jenin, France, Ukraine, and Sudan. CBC News had nothing about any of them. What they had instead was plenty of stories that one assumes the wokelings running CBC these days would deem click-worthy. Tornado in Alberta... noise is hurting our health... far right in EU persecuting gays... I'm sure all those stories are important in their own way, but that in no way justifies the complete abscence of far more important stories. Jenin; the biggest IDF incursion into the Palestinian refugee camp in twenty years is surely newsworthy. France; one of the key NATO allies seeing cities aflame is surely newsworthy. Sudan; when I read last year that the US was posting an ambassador to the country for the first time in 25 years, I thought, oh shit, they're in for special attention from Washington. Sure enough, six months later a lethal civil war breaks out, with no end in sight. Surely that's newsworthy. Ukraine; so far every fresh multi-billion-dollar gift to our patsies saving global democracy has been countered by Russia. Pretty much the only option left on NATO's escalation ladder is total war. Surely that's far more newsworthy than the woke shlock CBC has been sending my way all day.

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