all singing from the same hymnal

How?

Different funding, different founders, different writers, different values, different nations, different continent, different audience

lol

So @ToxicTransgender the CBC board of directors are highly involved in media as board members or direct owners (ex: Edward W. Boyd and Michael Goldblume). Essentially there isn't competing media companies, since they all run the direction of state media. I think this would fall into that issue you were talking about.

There are competing media companies in Canada tho

Global News being one

That funds TFI global btw

CTV news being another

I'm not saying they're arent, you have a situation where multi-billion dollar company is the arm of state media.

TVA being another

That’s with all/most media now

If we going to discard Epoch times on a "poisonous" association, this seems like it would apply as well.

Here is the CBC coverage of Tiannamen Square:
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2461675714

Tell me what you think.

Epoch Times is founded and funded by the Falun Gong, that is literally a cult

The CBC is funded by the government but has no involvement in its daily operations

There’s a difference

Epoch times is made to talk shit about the Chinese

The CBC is made to spread actual news around

how does it not have involvement? The media is directly involved with the government. Since it is government funded.

I understand that

But the government doesn’t have say in matters

Its the definition of a conflict of interest.

How does the government not have a say, but have control over funding?

Like, would you trust North Korean news network if they said "the government has no decision power over what we publish"?

No, because NK is a authoritarian dictatorship

Canada is still a free democracy

So maybe this is a cultural misunderstanding. People in America have issues with PBS because it is government programming. You don't trust it because if it came time to report things about your government, you're considered distrustful. The only thing you can base your trust of them on is the articles/product they publish.

So my point with the double standard when it comes to Epoch Times vs CBC.

No no

I still don’t trust articles about the gov by the CBC

But when it comes to general news I trust them

oh yes... state approved news... desensitization... hopeless cause
and china still persists 32 years later....

But Epoch Times’ goal is to talk shit about the CCP

So I don’t trust their judgement

Just like I wouldn’t trust CBC with issues about the gov here

many others do as well... just not lamestream

But in general news, why would you not judge the work and not the association? That is the double standard.

I don’t mind the Epoch times when it comes to Non-Chinese reporting (if they have any)

But it’s when they clearly try to portray there reality