{"id":77136,"date":"2023-01-12T01:00:11","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T06:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=77136"},"modified":"2023-01-11T09:16:32","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T14:16:32","slug":"qotd-describing-the-cbc-to-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2023\/01\/12\/qotd-describing-the-cbc-to-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Describing the CBC to Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>an audience of any size has yet to be found<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So far so CBC, then.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure how to describe the CBC to American viewers. The BBC routinely produces content that&#8217;s quite entertaining (deliberately, I mean) so it&#8217;s not a good analogy. I suppose the best analog would be if NPR and PBS merged and were run by the CPUSA with $20 billion dollars of taxpayer money, and still managed to produce nothing anyone wanted to watch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidthompson.typepad.com\/davidthompson\/2022\/10\/the-giant-testicles-told-me.html?cid=6a00d83451675669e202a2eed904e8200d#comment-6a00d83451675669e202a2eed904e8200d\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Ream<\/a>, commenting on David Thompson, <a href=\"https:\/\/davidthompson.typepad.com\/davidthompson\/2022\/10\/the-giant-testicles-told-me.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Giant Testicles Told Me&#8221;, <em>DavidThompson<\/em><\/a>, 2022-10-10.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>an audience of any size has yet to be found So far so CBC, then. I&#8217;m not sure how to describe the CBC to American viewers. The BBC routinely produces content that&#8217;s quite entertaining (deliberately, I mean) so it&#8217;s not a good analogy. I suppose the best analog would be if NPR and PBS merged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,84,28,53,41],"tags":[416,351,269,793,101],"class_list":["post-77136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-government","category-media","category-politics","category-quotations","tag-cbc","tag-politicalcorrectness","tag-propaganda","tag-subsidies","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-k48","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77136"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79226,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77136\/revisions\/79226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}