[psycr]

When Harper was in power, sure. Lately, the coverage has been a bit, shall we say, fawning?

Regardless, I suspect given the nature of media and ideology, and how fickle our notions of bias really are, that any subtle critique of the CBC is bound to be buried in shibboleth dynamics.

[3pt14159]

I remember the CBC under Martin and Chretien (both Liberals), it was far from fawning then. Right now the government is doing good things, it's good that they aren't always critical, then it would be a useless signal. And the CBC was pretty even balanced during the first 3 years of CPC leadership, it was only after the Scientist muzzling and the lack of media access / questions that the CBC starting upping the criticism.

[pakled_engineer]

When Herr Harper cut a lot of their funding CBC changed into trying to emulate private media with these political clickbait pieces and celebrity gossip to boost income, haven't seen it since. When I grew up in 80s/90s they would have fascinating documentaries by real scientists most of those disappeared or became political too.

[psycr]

Herr Harper private media political clickbait celebrity gossip real scientists political too

The shibboleth speaks!

But in all seriousness this is, in so many words, exactly what I was describing.

[rwj]

To be fair to the CBC, they were very critical of Harper from the start, even before the funding cuts.