Twitter pisses off NPR
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CBC is a decent TV and radio news source. Like the BBC in Britain, it is funded by tax dollars. No dispute there. It also has an admitted centre left bias in its reporting. It does not however kow-tow to the ruling government or any particular political party whether federal or provincial. Its public affairs reporting on national matters is miles ahead of its privately owned competitors - CTV and Global.
To place it in the same league as state owned and controlled media as in Russia and China is both absurd and ridiculous.
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CBC is a decent TV and radio news source. Like the BBC in Britain, it is funded by tax dollars. No dispute there. It also has an admitted centre left bias in its reporting. It does not however kow-tow to the ruling government or any particular political party whether federal or provincial. Its public affairs reporting on national matters is miles ahead of its privately owned competitors - CTV and Global.
To place it in the same league as state owned and controlled media as in Russia and China is both absurd and ridiculous.
@Renauda said in Twitter pisses off NPR:
To place it in the same league as state owned and controlled media as in Russia and China is both absurd and ridiculous.
I have not done that. However, for the CBC to be offended by...the truth about where their funding comes from is ridiculous. In fact, one might stretch it a bit and say dishonest - like the graph on their website.
And that sneaky little tilde confirms the fact that they want to deceive.
Here's what an accurate graph looks like.
I don't dispute the accuracy of their reporting, however, the hissy fit that CBC is having ("I'm taking my ball and going home because you hurt my feelings by telling the truth.") is pathetic and unbecoming to a "serious" news organization.
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@Renauda said in Twitter pisses off NPR:
To place it in the same league as state owned and controlled media as in Russia and China is both absurd and ridiculous.
I have not done that. However, for the CBC to be offended by...the truth about where their funding comes from is ridiculous. In fact, one might stretch it a bit and say dishonest - like the graph on their website.
And that sneaky little tilde confirms the fact that they want to deceive.
Here's what an accurate graph looks like.
I don't dispute the accuracy of their reporting, however, the hissy fit that CBC is having ("I'm taking my ball and going home because you hurt my feelings by telling the truth.") is pathetic and unbecoming to a "serious" news organization.
@George-K said in Twitter pisses off NPR:
@Renauda said in Twitter pisses off NPR:
To place it in the same league as state owned and controlled media as in Russia and China is both absurd and ridiculous.
I have not done that.
But Twitter sort of is. And it’s not hard to see who the main beneficiaries of that are.
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@Renauda said in Twitter pisses off NPR:
To place it in the same league as state owned and controlled media as in Russia and China is both absurd and ridiculous.
I have not done that. However, for the CBC to be offended by...the truth about where their funding comes from is ridiculous. In fact, one might stretch it a bit and say dishonest - like the graph on their website.
And that sneaky little tilde confirms the fact that they want to deceive.
Here's what an accurate graph looks like.
I don't dispute the accuracy of their reporting, however, the hissy fit that CBC is having ("I'm taking my ball and going home because you hurt my feelings by telling the truth.") is pathetic and unbecoming to a "serious" news organization.
It’s government funded in a similar, although not identical, way the BBC is government funded. Twitter for some reason gives the BBC a pass on the issue. Why is that?
As for the clip of Trudeau and what he says about Poilievre and the Federal Tories….Trudeau is right. The Conservatives are hell bent on shutting down the CBC and all its affiliates. I oppose this Tory policy which really only panders to a small minority of western anglophone Canadians who, for the most part, reside in rural Alberta and Saskatchewan and continue to believe that the metric system is a Bonapartist plot to retake Canada from the Hudson’s Bay Company.
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So, how is a government subsidy different? Because a subsidy is not supposed to be "on going" but is more of a one time thing?
Or, is a subsidy also government funding but under a different name?
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Indeed it is. It also has, as the Twatter link you provided crudely pointed out, drama, comedy and sports programming along with arts and science documentary productions. Best of all, it broadcasts throughout the country in both official languages, French and English.
It is produced by Canadians for Canadians. I support the CBC and regard it a treasured national cultural institution. I would willingly defend it with extreme prejudice.
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I'd go so far as to humbly suggest that Elon Musk is not to be trusted.
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I'd go so far as to humbly suggest that Elon Musk is not to be trusted.
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He is turning into a caricature. He is obviously a smart guy, but I think is starting to love publicity about himself a bit too much.
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He's a promoter. They like publicity.
But back to the subject at hand...What is Musk's ultimate goal here? You know he has one.
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He's a promoter. They like publicity.
But back to the subject at hand...What is Musk's ultimate goal here? You know he has one.
@Jolly said in Twitter pisses off NPR:
He's a promoter. They like publicity.
But back to the subject at hand...What is Musk's ultimate goal here? You know he has one.
- It's fun to make the papers due to bullshit
- Data mining
Please love yourself.
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He's a promoter. They like publicity.
But back to the subject at hand...What is Musk's ultimate goal here? You know he has one.
@Jolly said in Twitter pisses off NPR:
What is Musk's ultimate goal here? You know he has one.
Money.
And with any luck to spend it to go and live on Mars.
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@Jolly said in Twitter pisses off NPR:
He's a promoter. They like publicity.
But back to the subject at hand...What is Musk's ultimate goal here? You know he has one.
- It's fun to make the papers due to bullshit
- Data mining
@Aqua-Letifer said in Twitter pisses off NPR:
@Jolly said in Twitter pisses off NPR:
He's a promoter. They like publicity.
But back to the subject at hand...What is Musk's ultimate goal here? You know he has one.
- It's fun to make the papers due to bullshit
- Data mining
I get the first one. How can you data mine this event and what are you looking for?
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@Aqua-Letifer said in Twitter pisses off NPR:
@Jolly said in Twitter pisses off NPR:
He's a promoter. They like publicity.
But back to the subject at hand...What is Musk's ultimate goal here? You know he has one.
- It's fun to make the papers due to bullshit
- Data mining
I get the first one. How can you data mine this event and what are you looking for?
@Jolly said in Twitter pisses off NPR:
@Aqua-Letifer said in Twitter pisses off NPR:
@Jolly said in Twitter pisses off NPR:
He's a promoter. They like publicity.
But back to the subject at hand...What is Musk's ultimate goal here? You know he has one.
- It's fun to make the papers due to bullshit
- Data mining
I get the first one. How can you data mine this event and what are you looking for?
I don't think it's any one event per se. I think he can now get a first-hand look at common consumer behavior, and how social media attention actually works. That kind of information would be valuable for just about anybody.
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Imagine one day "@npr" on Twitter is someone or something other than the National Public Radio:
https://www.reuters.com/technology/musk-threatens-reassign-npr-twitter-account-npr-says-2023-05-03/
Musk, in an email to an NPR reporter, asked about its engagement with Twitter, the public broadcaster said.
“So is NPR going to start posting on Twitter again, or should we reassign @NPR to another company?” NPR quoted Musk as saying.
“Our policy is to recycle handles that are definitively dormant,” he said in another email. “Same policy applies to all accounts. No special treatment for NPR.”Twitter should have the right to do whatever it wants with its namespaces, barring any contractual obligation. If a reader is too careless to verify whether a tweet by a Twitter @ handle is or is not from the person or organization he thinks it is from, well too bad.
