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Originally Posted by Marc Montgomery
When it comes to elections, the CBC is under a very stringent microscope to ensure it gives almost exactly proportional coverage (in airtime minutes- and web word count coverage) to the major political parties--
The CBC does NOT do its own polls, it -like other institutions- hires outside well-respected pollsters....
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Yes, this is the crux of the matter, and it's the point I was trying to make. Public broadcasters are ACCOUNTABLE for the balance in their election reporting, whereas private media is free to campaign as it wishes, like the Murdoch examples below, which even gloat when they swing an election.
Furthermore, private media is free to do its own polling, for example Murdoch's News Corp owns Newspoll, which is the main pollster in Australia, and of course the ONLY poll published in Murdoch media. As such it can hardly be considered unbiased.
Whatever political bias one may detect or imagine in public broadcasters, it's an entirely different situation. Instead of objecting to bias in public broadcasting, real or perceived, we should be objecting to bias in private media. That's DEFINITELY real!
