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"Just Visiting"? Not on CBC's watch

Network rejects Tory attack ads

by macleans.ca on Thursday, June 4, 2009 9:59am - 63 Comments

The CBC may be strapped for cash, but that doesn’t mean that they’ll let just anyone buy ad time on the public broadcaster. The Ottawa Citizen reports that the Conservative Party’s latest anti-Liberal ad campaign – which lambaste the Liberal leader for his 34-year absence from the country, and portrays him as a self-serving, hyper-ambitious elitist — runs afoul of a “longstanding policy.” According to CBC spokesman Jeff Keay, the network has “pretty strict guidelines” when it comes to party-funded ads: “We’ll only accept political advertising like that when there is an election campaign on.”

Ottawa Citizen

Tags: Canada

john g

That got debunked. There was a theory that Shauna McDonald, who apparently did some voice over for CBC Newsworld, was the female voice in some Liberal attack ads. That turned out not to be true, according to Steve Janke.
ProCnd

Good for the CBC, these attack adds are uncanadian. They always stand up for our culture and way of life

EKl

What is uncanadian? Telling the true??? Do you really want to get back to Liberal lies???

bruno Cociani

Yes! At least we are going to remain Canadians and not Republicans Americans.

Let's see, te Liberals are the "bad guys" who brought us out of debt, so to say and who, at least most of the time mean what they say and do not change and lye at every opportunity, just to gain power.

What a disgusting lot these, so called, conservatives. (actually I used to be a conservative, but since he advent of this lot I swore I'd never ever vote for them again..Nt Ever!).

Bruno

Maureen

The only responsibility that any news outlet has is to ensure that the ad is not 'hate" or false. Neither apply in the case of these ads. Once again the CBC demonstrates its bias.
George

Well, by not showing the ads, CBC clearly demonstrates that they don't need extra money and that Harper was right by not giving extra funds to them.
Cal

Sbt says, "Whether or not we like pre-writ advertising or not isn't the point here. The reality is that pre-writ advertising is legal and for the CBC to draft some guidelines and throw itself into the middle of a political debate over pre-writ political advertising when it is supposed to be neutral is completely unacceptable."
I think that public reaction to pre-writ advertising should be the point. I don't like it, and I didn't like the Conservatives' pre-writ advertising on the lead-up to the last election. As a conservative supporter, I'm nevertheless dismayed to see the party stooping this low. And I suspect its over-all impact is counter-productive.
John

Since when are statements of fact considered an attack? Perhaps the CBC should get off their high horse and accept some ad revenue instead of picking the tax payer's pocket.