Is the End Near for CBC News?

The trip down the slippery slope started pre-9/11 but inevitably over the last decade or so nearly every US broadcast news organization has lost credibility with me. Fox never really had much to begin with but in 2008 I consider CNN, NBC, ABC, and CBS just one small step (or less) above Paparazzi.

This morning there is a disturbing post from Teamakers that suggests that CBC news may be standing on that same slippery slope.

Now we deliver news by poll. The imperatives of editorial advice given by a private consultant based on audience research poses obvious hazards for the public broadcaster and to Canadians who pay for it.[x] Consider Magid’s advice in the spring of 2003 (after the Iraq invasion) to its more than 150 U-S newsroom clients. It’s research suggested the public had very little appetite for stories about "casualties, prisoners of war, and anti-war protests."[xi] As for the role of journalism as a pillar of American democracy defending the voters right to know: irrelevant.