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12664228, something people need to understand is that CBC has been in heat
Posted by dgonsh, Mon Dec-01-14 04:37 PM
for months with the canadian media and public. they've never seen worse press than they did this year.

the glenn greenwald NSA non-leak story made HUGE news in Toronto and the rest of Canada...they were heavily criticized for sitting on vital info about spying that went against everything the CBC assured themselves to stand for.

The CBC is largely publicly funded, so this faced huge criticism.

After the Ghomeshi scandal (both for himself, and the dangerous scandal of what the CBC knew and WHY they did nothing about it), it is no shock that they will do pretty much whatever they can to get back in the good graces of the public and media.

While I agree that this great doc took balls to air in a general sense, there is absolutely strategy in presenting this. This was not the regular organic political pot-stirring the CBC has been proud of for years (CBC Marketplace is one of the best in the country at exposing wrongdoing to consumers and the public).