Tuesday, October 5, 2010

CBC studies its news, finds it "balanced." The ultimate in navel gazing

From Jennifer McGuire on CBC.ca:
"CBC News has now completed its comprehensive News Balance Study.
In June, we released the interim results and I explained then in some detail why we think it's important to evaluate the journalism we do and the way we do it. So what have we learned? First and foremost, that Canadians are sophisticated and critical consumers of news who are not satisfied getting information from any one source. Canadians' perceptions about journalism are changing. They believe journalism plays a vital role in society and is critical to the health of democracy. However, they think there is much less fact and more opinion in contemporary journalism, that over time the quality of journalism has been declining and that most journalism reflects the corporate point of view of owners and shareholders. . . "


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