Insider reveals why CBC going down the toilet

If you’re one of those taxpayers who bemoan the billion dollars plus of annual subsidies lavished on the CBC, you’ll no doubt enjoy Tara Henley’s resignation letter, published in the National Post yesterday.

Oddly enough, her letter largely echos points I made months ago; CBC explains why it's going down the toilet.

It’s been disappointing to see how so many professional journalists have willingly gone along with the CBC’s embrace of a supposed “cultural and social revolution,” invisible to all but the most earnestly “woke.”

Disappointing, but not surprising. The profession has taken a beating in the internet era, and a CBC paycheque isn’t something many journo’s are willing to put at risk.

They were, no doubt, all idealists at one time.

But that was then.

Today, when faced with the choice of defending journalistic integrity or making their mortgage payment, with rare exceptions, they choose to keep their home.

It’s an understandable choice, but let’s stop calling the CBC’s abject propagandizing of everything from foreign policy, to vaccination mandates, to race relations, “journalism.”

RIP Rob Ford

The think tank here at Falling Downs had a lot of fun at Rob Ford's expense, but I'd like to think that overall, it was good well-intentioned fun. While I don't think he had much in the way of political accomplishments to boast about (that was pretty much limited to turning modestly paying trash collector jobs into poorly paying privatized trash collector jobs), he certainly carried himself with an admirable I-do-what-I-do swagger.

We don't have to live in Toronto, thank God, but we listen regularly to Toronto traffic reports, just so we can remember why we should keep thanking God. But we get there every couple of months to meet up with the Juniors and sometimes the old Jewish relations who can't make it up here anymore, so we're somewhat familiar with the place, but we're not intimately acquainted by any stretch.

That's why we relied on the Toronto media for our Ford Nation info, especially the faux liberal Toronto Star. Ford Nation was, the way I understood it, a bunch of backward looking white racists pining for the good old days of Toronto the Good.

The good and white. Wasn't hardly a day where I wouldn't pick up the Star and read all about Ford's misogyny and racism and alcoholism and addictions and misogyny and racism etc. In fact, the Star bent the boundaries of journalistic integrity on a regular basis with reportage that amounted to fat-shaming and general character assassination. They still somewhat lamely claim that paying money for "gotcha" videos was a public service, as opposed to a black eye for journalism.

So I was a bit taken aback when I viewed a little bit of the funeral today. Seems that women and non-white folks were extremely well represented. What did they see in the man that the Toronto Star missed?

Anyway, this is about Rob Ford, not the sorry state of journalism today. All respect, Mr. Ford, and condolences to your loved ones. Thanks for being you.