I'm sorry, George, that the limited space allowed here prevents me from dealing with more than one of your points.

Insofar as your point about the CBC as "the national media informing the nation" is concerned, I take great umbrage with this.

Frankly, I find this to be the kind of elitist arrogance so inbred in the CBC crowd and their Liberal benefactors in Ottawa.

If one were to use viewership/ratings as the indicator of which network actual Canadians outside the Ottawa bubble consider to be the national media, it would not be the CBC.

In any case, there are now numerous networks and channels and the reason for a government subsidized network no longer exists except among the minority who want to stack the deck for the Liberals.

Hard news only is the only thing that could justify the CBC's subsidized existence, IMNSHO.