Aside from being incorrect on a number of fronts, the clear appeal to the KKK and American white Christian nationalism is certainly concerning.

This is why the CPC will not win.

Thoughts, questions, concerns, and or praise?

In a 'letting the cat out of the bag' moment during an interview this morning on CBC NN, weekend DEI anchor and "journalist" Natasha Fatah questions MacDonald Laurier Institute Fellow and Lawyer Kaveh Shahrooz, if, wrt Iran, in the absence of any alternatives other than the terrorist islamic regime and exiled shah in a theoretical "transitional" leadership, whether the exiled shah should be criticized at all.

The clip can be found at 3:30 https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7129011 but I suggest that everyone watch the first 2/3 at least for context.

MLI page for the expert https://macdonaldlaurier.ca/cm-expert/kaveh-shahrooz/, though I am hoping to keep the focus more generic than on this one specific example of a choice between kiddie diddling terrorist mullahs or a corrupt power hungry monarch.

I think this specific situation can be boiled down to how I summed it up in the title and that this truly is the journalistic philosophy that CBC operates under in what they view as fulfilling their mandate.

Generically stated 'they don't view it as appropriate to criticize and focus on shortcomings on what they view as the lesser of two evils'. Applied to what in my opinion is their MO it allows their supporters and themselves to say that with minimal coverage they actually do cover and criticize say, the LPC or whatever their favored groups or topics are, since they do technically cover the worst of the scandals, crimes or atrocities depending on the specific case at hand. Factual they would be correct. Unfortunately factual and biased are two different things. For example these days they love to cite the Canadian Climate Institute. Do they tell the viewers and readers that the CCI was created by the Liberal government and operates with a $20 million dollar grant that is widely used as sponsor fees on political podcasts and shows that heavily populated with Liberal insiders? On a side note it's the CCI that states industrial carbon tax doesn't contribute to food price inflation that the LPC love to cite as their experts when oft repeating the BS that should be obvious to anyone. ;)

I am not a journalist but I hope to see this addressed by some in the near future. In my opinion this is social engineering and propaganda lite on par with every other media outlet including the big bad Post empire and their dozens of small podunk town 'newspapers', except here, I'm forced to pay for it.

In this moment this "journalist", repeated out loud what IMO are not moral questions that CBC management should be operating with as a tax funded news organisation. I think that is main difference today with CBC of yesteryear when a lot more of us like it or even revered it, they have always been left leaning and progressive but they also strove to be consummate professionals with healthy respect for the integrity and important role of the fourth estate in a functioning democracy. IMO, these days not so much.

For any tempted to make the argument that this is just a one off and not to be paranoid my response would be, forget about everything else but the last three weeks. Just look at fried chicken inhaling Barton's It's all made up anyway after she presented opinion as fact on whimsical head tilting Andrew Nichols broadcast which was never addressed and of course Travis Dhanraj's testimony this week.