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Watching the Watchdog: Will the CBC Follow in the BBC's Footsteps?

Tim Knight | Posted 01.16.2013 | Canada
Read More: Cbc, Global, Sustaining Citizenship and Civil Society, Public Servants, Bbc, Ctv, Private Broadcasters, CBC News Team, Crtc, Rogers, The Public Interest, Astral Media, Bbc Scandal, Canada News
Tim Knight

Across the Atlantic Ocean, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), world's oldest, largest and most respected broadcaster of journalism, is busy destroying itself. And if all this happened at the Beeb, could it happen here too? CBC should be afraid. Very afraid.

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Watching the Watchdog: Saving Canadian Journalism From Itself

Tim Knight | Posted 10.29.2012 | Canada
Read More: Cbc, Newspapers, Le Devoir, Public Interest Journalism, Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Canadian Association of Journalists, Code of Silence, Journalism, Profit, Private Broadcasters, Death and Life of American Journalism, Media Companies, John Nichols, Robert W. McChesney, Canadian Democracy, Investigative Reporting, Canada News
Tim Knight

Slowly, slowly, the dwindling band of journalists who survive all the cuts are being acclimatized to the notion that their job is no longer to serve the people in our democracy -- a tradition proudly built up over the past couple of hundred years, often at great cost -- but to serve their employer. So why don't we, the people, take over -- subsidize our precious democratic journalism ourselves? Here's the plan.

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