CBC News is back on Twitter, well, just sort of back. After nearly taking nearly a month off Twitter due to what it deemed an unfair “Government-funded media” label, the public broadcaster announced on Tuesday—it’s back. The CBC’s 2022 funding from Canadian taxpayers was $1.24 billion. "Today, we will resume some activity on a handful...
Yesterday, the CBC along with the ‘Global Task Force’, consisting of other national media broadcasters from other countries, demanded Twitter remove the “government-funded media” label and replace it with “publicly-funded media”. The CBC deemed the “government-funded media” label as misleading, claiming it suggested the broadcaster’s editorial independence was influenced by the federal government. Now, it...
Summary: CBC/Radio-Canada, supported by the Global Task Force, demands Twitter change the "Government-funded Media" label to "Publicly-funded media." The 'misleading' label undermines the editorial independence and autonomy of CBC/Radio-Canada and other public broadcasters, including ABC, KBS, and RNZ. Earlier this month, Twitter changed the BBC's label to "Publicly-funded media" after facing objections, highlighting a similar...
Looks like Canada’s public broadcaster has some issues with the definition of how it’s being funded. The CBC Twitter account earned a “Government-funded Media” label yesterday and it rebuked that determination, despite having the majority of its annual $1.24 billion funding coming from taxpayers for 2021-2022. On Monday morning, the CBC/Radio-Canada Twitter account announced it...
After Elon Musk’s Twitter slapped the ‘Government-funded Media’ label onto the U.S. National Public Radio's (NRP) Twitter bio, the non-profit media organization quit the social network in protest. Originally the first label was “state-affiliated media,” used for other state outlets from nations such as Russia and China. NPR is both privately and publicly funded but...
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) says it eventually plans to end traditional TV and radio broadcasts, and move to streaming only. That’s according to the president and CEO of the CBC, Catherine Tait, speaking with The Globe and Mail. Tait said Canadians are moving to streaming while the crown corporation is “sitting here loyally broadcasting...
