Canada

most of them are big time Conservative donors; and CBC is so chronically underfunded that it can't work anymore. I don't even bother going to the website on my ipad because every time I try to scroll the screen my finger hits an ad. The good radio programming has been cancelled and we are left with stuff like that pretentious jerk Gian Gomeshi, whose job is probably safe because the ptb know that nobody wants to listen to him. Its a no-fail way to get rid of something, just turn everybody off it so it doesn't matter anymore.

Harper may be a miserable lying traitorous prick, but he isn't stupid.

http://www.friends.ca/press-release/12179
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Since 2012, the government has cut the CBC’s budget by a quarter of a billion dollars, and 75% of the CBC Board – all Harper appointments – have been financial supporters of the Conservative Party of Canada, including the CBC President.

“This is a plan to do less with less and Harper’s cuts are to blame. CBC is popular with Canadians who will remember the government’s record of hostility to CBC at election time,” said Morrison.
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