On the Trish Wood podcast, former CBC reporter Marianne Klowak said the network lost its journalistic integrity in June 2021, when COVID vaccines became widely available and mandates were on the horizon.
“I tried to push through a number of stories that were censored and cancelled. We were no longer committed to truth and honesty,” Klowak told Wood.
Klowak described how she wanted to show both sides of the vaccine debate and let viewers decide for themselves. At the time, she was finding concerning data coming out of Israel — a country where vaccines were available months before most others like Canada — and thought it was newsworthy. CBC disagreed.
There is only one useful solution for the CBC, that is to either privatize it in whole or break it up into pieces to be sold as private entities. In 2022 in fact since at least 1990 or so there is no need for a government run media organization.
Before wide spread radio and tv and before the internet maybe a case was called for government run media, but that ship has sailed and the CBC is now a discredit to the history, values and traditions of what Canada was and never should have given up and what Canada should be.