One-sided information

Armine Yalnizyan points out that the same network which considers the Tommy Douglas Story too political to air during an election campaign has aired a show cheerleading for private health care during the same time frame:

When I first read about the CBC decision not to air the Tommy Douglas documentary, I could see a certain logic to that position, though I didn't agree with it.

But the CBC's subsequent decision to run Medicare Schmedicare is worse than irrational and incoherent. It is an utter repudiation of its very reason for existence: a voice for the public interest, across the whole country, and for the majority of the public.

Obviously, nobody expects the CBC (or any other news source) to completely avoid providing content which may take a side on a given issue. But there needs to be some balance to ensure that all sides of the story are told...and unfortunately, it looks like the CBC is willing to tell only the wrong side of the Medicare issue.