Recent debate about defunding the CBC often misses an important distinction — the problem isn’t that the CBC has a partisan bias per se, it’s that the organization has this bias while being a state broadcaster.
It’s natural, indeed beneficial, for news organizations to have political biases of some sort. A democratic society thrives when it maintains a vibrant marketplace of ideas, and that marketplace is healthiest when different ideological groups are represented, and empowered, by affiliated media outlets.
