u/TwoFingersWhiskey

I grew up watching BCTV (later Global). It's always on thanks to my mother watching it (so I don't have a choice), and have noticed a distinct rightward swing in their broadcasting. It looks neutral, but then you look up their cited sources and they're allllll conservative or conservative-friendly. 😑

Examples include the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, The Fraser Institute, Angus Reid Institute, Second Street, etc.

There's next to no representation for the left, and only a few decidedly centrist sources like Ipsos.

They present themselves as neutral, trustworthy etc but then have a multi day all-out BC Conservative election knob-slobber a little while ago.

My ex was a journalist, and she did not see nearly this bias back then. I know, because she did some of her university experience stuff with both Global and CBC about 15 years ago. My estranged dad (who, incidentally, is a brainpoisoned conservative shithead now) used to do radio, back when it was BCTV, back when he was much more centre-left. They used to not accept sources that were clearly partisan.

I've been a leftist my entire life. I went to a hippie dippie arts school, I learnt how to form a union as part of a graded activity. We would go to protests, go to school district and city hall meetings, hold mock elections, conduct sit-ins, etc. Global used to send their reporters there to cover our first and last days, they'd record our protests and speeches for opinion stories, and sent Mark Madryga to teach us about meteorology in the library. They often came out to our anti old growth logging protests, would LISTEN, and didn't editorialise over it when broadcast. Just stuck to the facts, offered a differing opinion (fairness laws), and moved on.

Now, that story would be critical over the spending of time doing this, how much the protest cost taxpayers, the children's educations in a public school being too costly, interviews with the logging corp, etc. If they covered an ecological story *at all.*

I've had to watch this damn channel almost every day of my life for decades, thanks to my mother watching it (and she's not conservative at all) and I'm just always groaning at how they're presenting major issues.

I think it's time we stopped using them as a source on here, uncritically, too.