Government should be the LAST entity we want involved
Anyone who has ever watched a cat chasing its own tail should note the similarities to the Canadian Broascasting Corporation (also known as the CBC) reporting on its own labour woes.
What credibility can a news source claim when someone intimately involved in the process gets to put the spin on the story itself. Are we hearing Management's perspective, Mid-management perspective, Government perspective, or perhaps Ownership perspective (that being the Canadian taxpayer)?rnLast week, this newspaper was e-mailed a thinly disguised Letter To The Editor from CBC Vancouver's afternoon personality lamenting the sad state of labour relations at CBC and blasting the CBC for its low calibre of replacment programming including features ripped off from other media.
And yes, times are tough at the Corporation at the moment (as they frequently seem to be) but the bigger question today is who is in control at the CBC anyway? As taxpayers it should be you and I who are in charge. After all isn't that why the CBC is run as a government funded enterprise – to safeguard it from the ravages of free enterprise capitalism?rnIt's not working… again. That's just one more example of a misguided sentiment among many Canadians who beleive that if an enterprise is in financial or organizational difficulty, then the government should step in and try to fix that problem. If something's not working, then the government (be it federal, provincial or whatever…) is the LAST entity we should want fixing the problem. Take Air Canada, take Petro Canada, and now take the CBC. Do you see any unqualified successes in that list of government projects?rnPerhaps it is like CBC's current non-coverage of events like CFL football football: the less said the better.
