{"id":27379,"date":"2018-10-26T19:13:28","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T15:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nasimword.ir\/?p=27379"},"modified":"2018-10-29T11:34:13","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T08:04:13","slug":"rick-salutin-why-we-cant-afford-to-ignore-stupidity-at-the-cbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nasimword.ir\/?p=27379&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Rick Salutin: Why we can\u2019t afford to ignore stupidity at the CBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Wednesday was a weird news day. In the U.S., bombs began popping up,<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">as it were, in the precincts of Trump adversaries and critics, incuding CNN\u2019s New York studio.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">CNN evacuated and spent the rest of the day talking about nothing else.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Up here, CBC, in the form of its commando news arm, CBC News Network, quickly attached a siphon<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">to CNN and it, too, covered nothing else, except weather. Showing impressive restraint,<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">it didn\u2019t switch to U.S. weather. It was a mindful followup to its refusal to schedule coverage of<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Toronto\u2019s election a week ago, though CTV and other private stations did.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">CBC is the soldier in white of network news. In case you don\u2019t recall,<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">he was the U.S. casualty fully encased by bandages in\u00a0<em>Catch-22<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Morning and night, two nurses switched the jars flowing through him from top to bottom.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">He never spoke or twitched. Yossarian, Joseph Heller\u2019s anti-hero, wondered<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">why they didn\u2019t connect the jars and skip the middleman.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">I don\u2019t understand why CBC doesn\u2019t just disconnect its local operations and flow CNN straight to its viewers.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">I\u2019ve watched nonplussed, time and again, as CBC lets Trump blunder on while even CNN<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">switches elsewhere. Wednesday I was mesmerized. Finally at about 5:20,<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">on\u00a0<em>Power and Politics,<\/em>\u00a0host Vassy Kapelos introduced an item on the carbon tax in<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Saskatchewan! Blissful relief it was. Kapelos, by the way, came to CBC recently from Global,<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">and hasn\u2019t been properly trained to salivate at U.S. \u201cbreaking\u201d (i.e. all day and into tomorrow)<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">news, as CBC lifers have. Long ago, CBC journalists used to move to private networks, lending<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">grounding and gravitas. Now that flow, too, has been reversed, like the jars in\u00a0<em>Catch-22<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nasimword.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/BBOUxoL.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-27380\" src=\"http:\/\/nasimword.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/BBOUxoL.jpg\" alt=\"BBOUxoL\" width=\"799\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nasimword.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/BBOUxoL.jpg 799w, https:\/\/nasimword.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/BBOUxoL-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nasimword.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/BBOUxoL-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 799px) 100vw, 799px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">CBC\u2019s denial of coverage, as they say in insurance, to Toronto\u2019s election allowed it to run two of its series,<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>Murdoch Mysteries\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>Frankie Drake<\/em>. I know people watch them as a patriotic act, which I admire.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">But I feel I can speak with authority. I\u2019ve tuned in dozens, maybe hundreds, of\u00a0<em>Murdoch\u00a0<\/em>episodes.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Yet I\u2019ve never watched one through. You could say they\u2019re not compelling. It could be called<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>The Not Compelling Murdoch Mysteries<\/em>. They\u2019ve perfected the CBC genius for avoiding subtext.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">(And I like crappy crime shows. I even watch both Hawaii reboots now on:\u00a0<em>Hawaii Five-O<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Magnum P.I.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Newspeak justification (double entendre, yes!) is that CBC needs the ad revenue from<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>Murdoch\/Drake<\/em>.\u00a0<em>Nebbich<\/em>, as my grandparents would\u2019ve said. Poor darlings.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">They only get $1 billion in public money yearly to help them through. CBC also claims it\u2019s our bulwark<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">against U.S. culture. But c\u2019mon \u2014 the greatest threat to Canada\u2019s self-sense isn\u2019t U.S. cop shows,<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">it\u2019s treating daily reality there as if it\u2019s our own. That\u2019s psychotic;\u00a0<em>Murdoch\/Drake\u00a0<\/em>won\u2019t alleviate it.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">So should we just abandon CBC? I\u2019ve often felt if it goes away it\u2019ll never return,<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">to be healthily reassembled. But the issue\u2019s even more basic. Countries, in the form of nation-states,<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">still matter in this era of relentless globalization, as my smart friends Sam Gindin and<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Leo Panitch have written for years.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The nature, even existence, of international bodies like the EU haven\u2019t made nations irrelevant;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">those bodies are dependent on the strengths and proclivities of their member nations.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Germany, France, the U.K., Poland, Russia burrowing away underneath \u2014 if anything, nations are more<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">crucial now, and Trump\u2019s shallow (quelle surprise) opposition between<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">nationalists and globalists is senseless; they go together.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The same is true for bodies like the WTO or UN. Our species\u2019 fate will be decided globally,<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">but the decisions run through nations.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Canada as a country is in a peculiar position. We lack the glues that most nations<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">count on without even knowing it: a unique language, shared history, folkways, even cuisines.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In their place, we\u2019ve relied more than most on a small set of institutions we collectively created:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">originally the railway, more recently national health care and the CBC.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">I think Canadians instinctively recognize the existential necessity of our institutions.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">It\u2019s why they say they support the CBC as long as they don\u2019t have to watch it. I\u2019m with them.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Meantime, is there a cure for CBC\u2019s CNNvy? How about this<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u2014 whenever it feels an irresistible impulse to funnel CNN, insert\u00a0<em>Murdoch<\/em>\u00a0or\u00a0<em>Frankie\u00a0<\/em>instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday was a weird news day. 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