CBC may be standing by their porn but the Harper government, not so much.
If you missed last night’s show or haven’t caught the news today, CBC’s French division has been using tax dollars to pay for pornography.
This isn’t a joke, this is true.
They paid Canal Plus, a private firm from France, for the rights to put a pornographic show called “Hard” on a CBC website.
I wonder what they mean by “Hard?”
Anyway, CBC denied this material was pornographic and defended tax dollars being used in this way while also of course refusing to say how many tax dollars were being used.
On Parliament Hill, MPs from all parties called the material an inappropriate use of tax dollars. But not James Moore.
He refused to watch the program but he did not refuse to shoot the messenger.
Well it seems the adults are back in charge now and Moore’s office is questioning this material.
“This programming cannot be defended. Having now seen the show in question, it raises serious concerns about some programming decisions being made with taxpayers’ dollars by CBC/Radio-Canada. Today I contacted the CBC and asked them to review all of their online content to ensure offensive programming such as this is not repeated,”Moore office wrote in an email to Sun News.
The office of Prime Minister Stephen Harper also said this was not the best way to use your hard earned tax dollars:
“This content is clearly adult in nature and should not be available to children.”
While the government doesn’t control CBC’s content, we are confused by their decision to purchase sexually explicit content and make it available to children.
The CBC’s mandate is to deliver quality programming to the regions and rural areas, not this material,” said Andrew MacDougall, press secretary to the prime minister.
Good, I’m glad that is settled.
Anyone with their eyes open would see that this show is pornographic, anyone but the CBC it seems. And Moore who as I said originally refused to watch it and then attacked Sun Media.
A quick side note here.
After last night’s show, I learned of Moore’s full attack on Sun Media and our reporter Kris Sims, I detail it in a column that was published in several papers today and can be found on Lilleyspad.ca.
Moore, the minister in charge of the regulator for the entire broadcast industry, not only verbally attacked Sims, he attacked our parent company Quebecor and company CEO Pierre Karl Peladeau.
I encourage you to read the full details as Moore’ actions call his impartiality into question.
So far, no response on Moore’s outburst from the minister himself or the PMO.
No response either from the rest of consensus media.
I’m not surprised either.
CBC is their favourite media outlet.
When a member of the Ottawa press pack says they heard something on the radio they mean CBC because trust me, to them there are no privately own radio stations.
When they say they saw something on TV, they mean CBC. They all watch The National with Peter Mansbridge as if it were the only TV newscast out there, even though Mansbridge has helped drive The National lower than ever. They are in third behind CTV and Global National.
And as we’ve told you many of them are on CBC’s payroll.
Pornography paid for by you at CBC? Not a story.
Unfounded claims that the Harper government is targeting transvestites by requiring people to look like their ID when boarding an airplane – that gets run.
Story after story about granny having her pension taken away despite a single comment or shred of evidence to support that? Sure.
Get outraged when a Conservative Senator says what the majority Canadians already believe, that sick serial killers like Olson and Bernardo should be killed or given a noose in their cell? Oh you bet they will be outraged and express moral indignation that anyone, anywhere would hold such a view.
But cover a story about CBC taking tax dollars to pay for porn? Not a chance.
Thankfully the government has seen the light of day and changed their mind, no doubt it was partly a result of your emails and phone calls.
Time to give yourself a pat on the back.
And that’s the Byline.
