CBC’s leaders bring it to the brink of an existential crisis: Burman

If there was any doubt that Canada’s public broadcaster is confronting an unprecedented existential crisis, it vanished Thursday. CBC President Hubert Lacroix unveiled the corporation’s latest five-year plan at a “town hall” meeting of staff in a performance that was as disingenuous as it was depressing.

The CBC’s enemies are not only circling their prey from the outside, including the Conservative government with its unrelenting budget cuts. Its enemies are also working from within. The CBC has a compliant board of directors overwhelmingly stacked with Conservative party donors and a president, also conservative, who appears ready to implement any budget cut in virtual silence.

Lacroix delivered for the government Thursday. Although confirming the CBC will cut up to 1,500 more jobs in the next five years, including CBC’s renowned documentary unit that produced Canada: A People’s History and other groundbreaking programs, he described it as “a good day, it’s an important day. This is a plan that’s going to work.”

But that’s his problem. Our problem is much worse. More than ever, our challenge now, as Canadians, is to grab back the future of our CBC before Lacroix and his patrons destroy it. There is not much time left.

http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2014/06/26/cbcs_leaders_bring_it_to_the_brink_of_an_existential_crisis_burman.html

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