CBC Cuts: A Good Start?
The CBC has cut 800 jobs. I know what it’s like to lose a job, and empathize with anyone who loses theirs.
This post is not to celebrate the job loss aspect of the news. But it does reflect the continued diminishment of the CBC. The reality is that the CBC has been diminishing for years.
While this stop-gap measure comes at an unfortunate time (job losses are rarely “welcome”, mind you), it is directly a result of inaction on the part of government in dealing with the CBC sooner.
Better late than never … now is prime time for the government to come up with an ACTUAL PLAN on what to do with the CBC.
There are lots of good ideas out there. Macleans.ca had some great ideas. You could split up the TV and Radio into a Canadian PBS and NPR, then lower public funding over the course of a decade. You could just shut down the unprofitable TV operations all together, and continue to fund radio only. I even had a few ideas submitted on my Privatize.ca site a few years back. In better times, you could’ve privatized parts of it (sadly, that option is off the table for now).
Fact is, there are dozens of possible solutions, but successive governments have chosen the lamest option of all: do nothing and hope for the best.
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