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Throughout this dreadful lockout (which has gone on far too long already), I've been going to the online version of the Globe and Mail for my news fix. And yesterday, I'm sure you all saw it, the poll asked, "Does Canada need the CBC?" Sadly, 59% of those who voted said no. Can you believe it? And it wasn't like there were only 50 votes. Oh no, there were 48,104 votes in total! That's a lot of dumbasses. But, rather than tracking each one down and handing out individual Dumbass Awards, I'm just going to present a collective award to the whole lot of them. Congratulations to each and every one of you—you truly deserve it.
I don't need to go into the reasons that we need the CBC. It's been said much more eloquently by other people on this site and on the street. Just let me say that the flow of information that streams at us every day needs to be intellectual, and it needs to be more than just information. It needs to be well researched, well contextualized and well articulated so that we're being given knowledge, not just information. And the CBC does that best. So let them do it!
I did not vote in that poll. But here is what I have done:
Programmed the TV and radio stations to skip the CBC. Set up the computer "hosts" file with.
127.0.0.1 www.cbc.ca
Life is much better now.
The poll had been taken down by the time I read about it on CBCunplugged.com, but I'd certainly have voted that Canada needs the CBC. People who talk about shutting it down and giving its funding to healthcare or other projects conveniently forget that it's often only the CBC that let them know there was a healthcare crisis in the first place.
Hooray for the (entirely unscientific) 41% who understand why the CBC exists.
there was a concerted effort to stack votes. the globe and mail knows it too. they had a HUGE rush on no votes very early in the morning.
because of this, it's being dismissed as not any kind of real gauge of public opinion.
I noticed that at around 3pmET the split was around 54% yes and 46% no - which means some serious effort was put in to skew the results in such a short time.