[kristopolous]

You actually Are pearl clutching and reaching for the smelling salts.

I have multiple examples but you reach for some wild imagination because of some insane fanaticism of all things government. CBC has won multiple Pulitzers and Peabodies but I guess it's actually some communist menace.

Basically all the top countries in press freedom have a government news source https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Press_Freedom_Index#Ra...

Maybe 2 in the top 30 don't

This isn't productive. Let's end this.

[osigurdson]

Sorry, I don't understand the smelling salts reference but I assume it is non-positive. Is the CBC not controversial among a material percentage of the Canadian population currently? If winning an award from a respected institution provides one with a lifetime free pass, then please inform Harvey Weinstein of the news.

Is it insane to think that some country that is currently free may one day become non-free? It has happened before, so it is not clear by what logic you conclude that it can never happen again.

This isn't productive because your arguments are rather weak and now you are resorting to ad-hominems which is particularly distasteful.