This morning's Victoria Times-Colonist, in an article bylined Canwest News Service, reports that the CBC, who, by the way, are laying people off and cutting programming aimed at those of us living in the Great White North, are also turning down advertisements.
That reminds me of the time I worked at a restaurant, Parma Ravioli, on the Market in Ottawa and made a street person a veal sandwich and he returned it, pointing out that there was no cheese on it.
Beggars should not be choosers.
I digress.
The CBC, the broke ass CBC, refused to accept money, money honey, to run the Conservative's attack ads on the next Prime Minister, Mikey I.
"We'll only accept political advertising like that when there is an election campaign on," CBC spokesman Jeff Keay said. "We have generally pretty strict guidelines."
Uh, dude, y'all are broke, skint, need the money. Now is not the time.
WFDS
Maybe, just maybe, unlike the people creating the ads the CBC actually does adhere to some principles?
ReplyDeleteRead the article, Dan:
ReplyDeleteThe Tories approached CBC officials before the launch of the "Michael Ignatieff: just visiting" campaign and were told that an internal policy prevented the network from accepting political ads outside of times of elections..The policy has been in place for many years and was reviewed a few years ago, Keay said.
You'd rather they break their own company guidelines for a piece of 6 million $, which is the rumoured cost of these ads?
I applaud the integrity of the CBC. They are a public broadcaster, following their rules. If situation were reversed, if they decided to break their policy to run Liberal ads, conservatives would be apoplectic. They did the right thing. Being short on money does not mean that you'll do anything for a buck....
ReplyDeleteThe CBC can be principled because they are on the highest level of corporate welfare, getting millions of dollars per year from taxpayers. They don't have to be good or represent Canda because of that. CBC is like your lame radio station Dan, CKCU, which can be snotty and elitist and program unlistenable garbage because the Carleton students pay 400,000 dollars is hidden fees to keep that station on air. Both are on welfare.
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