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This sub is entirely CBC

Why is this sub just CBC news stories? Does a bot add them all? They are mostly empty with no comments. Makes for a strange feed.

Edit: I think I just need to figure out which way to sort my feed. Sorting by hot gives me almost all CBC.

Edit 2: CBC is great. I am commenting on the state of c/Canada, not the quality of CBC

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Perfect. The CBC is one of our best news sources if not the best.

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r/canada was 90% National Post opinion pieces and constantly manipulated by right wing bots. This is better.

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Lemmy is still young and not as active as reddit sub. It'll get better as time goes on no?

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- This thread has shown that it already has!
  
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Unfortunately, the CBC is kinda the only game in town for news media for a lot of Canada.

In Canada it's basically PostMedia, the Thomson family, and CBC. I think the Toronto Star is under different ownership than the rest, but lately The Star has been indistinguishable from PostMedia. And out of those only PostMedia and CBC cover local news stories. PostMedia has cut back on staff so much and are trying to do the Rupert Murdoch thing (so aren't trustworthy).

So that leaves us with the CBC. This is what the death of traditional media looks like I suppose. Only sources of news are either government funded or are grifters. And some like PostMedia are government funded grifters.

Not good to only have government funded media be the only source of news, but there really aren't other viable options.

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- There are other sources besides the big mainstream ones, such as The Walrus, The Tyee, The Conversation, Rabble, Canadian Dimension, and others I'm probably forgetting.
  
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  Yes but how reliable are the other sources? Anyone can easily set up a website and put some articles.
  
  The distrust of "mainstream media" is a paradox. You can't trust a brand new website for reliable information, because it could just be a random person making shit up. But once a site has been around for a while and has built up a reputation, it gets labelled as "mainstream media" and therefore also shouldn't be trusted.
  
  Besides that, a news site has to be fairly large to be able to afford having journalists spending time investigating stories. But opinions are cheap, and that's generally what the indie "news" sites are. Mostly just a collection of opinion columns with little to no stories resulting from investigative journalism. Sure mainstream media is doing a lot of opinion too, because its cheap and makes money, but at least there's going to be some people at a larger organization doing actual journalism.
  
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Better than the constant NP opinion pieces on /r/canada

I guess if you want to see different sources, post them

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- Honestly, the conversation in this post is what I was looking for lol. I don't care about the news source.
  
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Be the change you want to see.

Oof, it would be hard to say that out loud with a straight face. But it has some merit.

Most of the posts here are by a small group of people kind enough to repost stuff from their RSS feeds or other aggregators.

Any relevant content is appreciated at this early stage. And only a small percentage of an already small group comment on any platform. As the numbers grow we should see more interaction.

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- Because of this comment, Im going to comment on every post I see, hopefully I start some conversations... That always entertained me with Reddit reading 2 people talking about some small pointless thing
  
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  Im going to comment on every post I see
  
  Now I'm picturing your life with a sharpie in hand walking past lamp posts on the street.
  
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