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Canada Votes 2019
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Mad Mike
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Abacus Data has a good look at Canadian's feelings on media bias and "fake news" Abacus Data | Canadian News Media And “Fake News” Under A Microscope
As for Trump and Fox, that's a topic that deserves it's own thread. Sadly I think the average American is considerably more capable of having a meaningful civics discussion than most Canadians.
None of this is new, virtually every Canadian news media has roots in politics dating back to the mid 1800s when the leading papers had editors who were influential politicians, they used media as a tool to disseminate partisan POVs.
Abacus Data has a good look at Canadian's feelings on media bias and "fake news" Abacus Data | Canadian News Media And “Fake News” Under A Microscope
As for Trump and Fox, that's a topic that deserves it's own thread. Sadly I think the average American is considerably more capable of having a meaningful civics discussion than most Canadians.
CBC is slightly to the left, but not much. That said, most of the population is slightly left of center, so one could argue that it's right where it should be.
I've seen some claims it's "far left" but that's just not true. Well, it's true if you consider Sun News or Post Media center or center-left, I guess.
This site is fairly good for checking where sources fall on the spectrum: Media Bias/Fact Check - Search and Learn the Bias of News Media
I've seen some claims it's "far left" but that's just not true. Well, it's true if you consider Sun News or Post Media center or center-left, I guess.
This site is fairly good for checking where sources fall on the spectrum: Media Bias/Fact Check - Search and Learn the Bias of News Media
Curious why they are not threatening to sue the Liberal party for using their footage but did so to the Cons.
The key to digesting news media is knowing the bias beforehand. I also can't stand newstainment either. Sadly even the BBC is getting afflicted by this, their news website has been going a bit downhill recently with a few crappy clickbait stories popping up.
If I watch MSNBC I know they will be frothing at the mouth about everything that Trump does, if I watch Fox I know they will be making him out to be the second coming. I rarely watch CBC these days, I just skip it and watch BBC news. The problem these days is that there's a source of news to promote everyone's built in bias and if that's all you read then everything else is "fake news" to you.
If I watch MSNBC I know they will be frothing at the mouth about everything that Trump does, if I watch Fox I know they will be making him out to be the second coming. I rarely watch CBC these days, I just skip it and watch BBC news. The problem these days is that there's a source of news to promote everyone's built in bias and if that's all you read then everything else is "fake news" to you.
Mad Mike
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CBC has a notable Left-Center bias. By the way Canadians are centrist -- meaning they are evenly disbursed in a narrow range around center, there is very little far left or right. As a state run media outlet, any bias toward a political party becomes an issue. The CBC has often be accused of operating on behalf of Liberal leanings as a way to seek tacit approvals for their budgets and interests.
While CBC is generally found to be dependable and centered on news, they do not get the same ratings when it comes to editorial opinions, and programming where they are historically left leaning.
Trivial point: Anyone else notice mediabiasfactcheck.com has the left and right colors reversed on their arrows?
N234
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Those colours are true to American parties. Democrats Blue and Republicans Red.
Being public, CBC leans left or right depending on the government in power. A bit two-faced, but it's a bit understandable, I guess.
On average left of centre, or centre-left, is the bias I see.
Canadians are not centrist, as 60 percent of Canada votes left and 40 percent votes right. It is even more left when there is a higher turnout at the polls.
Being public, CBC leans left or right depending on the government in power. A bit two-faced, but it's a bit understandable, I guess.
On average left of centre, or centre-left, is the bias I see.
Canadians are not centrist, as 60 percent of Canada votes left and 40 percent votes right. It is even more left when there is a higher turnout at the polls.
I wish 338canada ran a live infographic tracking their predictions vs reality. It would be interesting to watch as polls closed across the country.
As for conventional new sources, the vast majority seem to be grouping leading and elected into the same category. You think the liberals have won 25 seats out east and realize only 10% of the polls have reported. Completely useless data.
680news has an easy to read table that separates leading, elected and popular vote. Thumbs up for them.
As for conventional new sources, the vast majority seem to be grouping leading and elected into the same category. You think the liberals have won 25 seats out east and realize only 10% of the polls have reported. Completely useless data.
680news has an easy to read table that separates leading, elected and popular vote. Thumbs up for them.
'leading the vote' is fairly misleading though, no idea what the spreads actually are.
LIB
120
Pop vote: 38.04%
Elected: 25
Lead: 95
CON
97
Pop vote: 30.88%
Elected: 16
Lead: 81
BQ
29
Pop vote: 3.86%
Elected: 2
Lead: 27
NDP
13
Pop vote: 14.97%
Elected: 1
Lead: 12
GRN
1
Pop vote: 9.74%
Elected: 1
Lead: 0
PPC
0
Pop vote: 1.4%
Elected: 0
Lead: 0
OTH
0
Pop vote: 1.12%
Elected: 0
Lead: 0
Multiple news channels have called it for the Liberals - only question now is majority of minority.
Interesting that news agencies are calling it already. Some of the seats that they are leading in only have a single station reporting out of hundreds. We'll shortly see whether there is any "news" left or just entertainment based on the world around us.
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