However, despite initially being given approval to go ahead with the non-BBC project, bosses told Davis the podcast risked exposing him to accusations of political bias.

“As the series has gone on – in fact as the world has progressed over the last few months – they have become concerned that anything like this trying to inform people about heat pumps can be interpreted, rightly or wrongly, as somehow treading on areas of public controversy,” he told followers of the podcast’s YouTube channel.

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Based

His failings under Harper’s government were briefly mentioned.

Party leader debate happening at the time of the this comment.

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Claiming the bottom spot for the 35th year in a row was the US, whom researchers described as “firmly not giving a shit about what anyone thinks to a detrimental extreme”.

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Intelligence can be measured in many ways.

Well that stat is also surprising to me.

Which is that the people you need to convince aren’t going to trust a government funded news source at this point.

Which is why we need to reframe it more accurately. They government doesn’t fund it: we do.

They acknowledged my points so I appreciated that.

into corporate media

I usually hear that to refer to privately owned media, which this isn’t.

Well they sound like a petty bunch, but I still think it’s the oligarchs of the continent that hold most of the blame.

I don’t remember that, no. But CBC needs funding regardless.

I have trouble believing increased funding for CBC was the majority force behind our current media landscape.

The alternative is media owned by foreign (American) billionaires.

I much prefer the one our taxes pay for thank you very much.

It’s okay, you can say “FUND” here.

Are you proposing a majority of Americans could just go take a vacation outside the country right now?

Moderating across instance is wonky atm but Lemmy 1.0 should address this.

I’d like to emphasize that these questions on the fediverse/lemmy are always targeted at the admins/hosters of the instance (server) you signed up at.

There is an adjustment here. No one owns this space or decides the rules that define it as a whole. Not even the developers.

Your instance will have its rules/culture/vibes, but that’s just one entry-point here.

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