text: I still fail to understand the right's obsession with shutting down the CBC. Firstly, it's not going to happen. The out-sized opposition to such a proposal would be impassable. Do you think Harper would have kept that viper's nest of progressives and statists around if he could reasonably have shut it down? (I'm assuming that's what he thinks of the institution anyway.) Secondly, the arguments against the institution range from the idea of free market culture in the face of that cultural behemoth at our doorstep to the idea that if the private market didn't have to compete it would be able to survive the current mediascape disruptions. That's a fine bit of hypocrisy from CTV and National Post private enterprise free marketers - moaning about how they can't compete. I like the idea of the CBC going ad-free. It would free it to tell our stories and push the envelope instead of trying to be everything to everyone a la lowest common denominator services. Be bold and daring CBC!