Time to pull the plug on these parasites.
http://www.torontosun.com/news/columnists/greg_weston/2009/02/22/8481486-sun.html
CBC wants more
In hard economic times others cut, the public broadcaster begs
While most Canadian media outlets are slashing jobs and other costs to stay afloat in a sea of bad economic news for the industry, the CBC is once again rattling its tin cup for more handouts from taxpayers.
The public broadcaster already covers its costs in large part by siphoning just over $1 billion a year from the public purse.
But what about the rest of this massive bureaucracy? According to government figures, the CBC employs more people than all of the country's private TV broadcasters combined.
At a time when the financial survival of private broadcasters turns on increasingly scarce ad dollars, it's a tad hard to justify the CBC's using $1 billion of public funds to suck hundreds of millions of dollars a year out of the same revenue pool.
Over the past year, Sun Media has reported on enough examples of excess in the CBC executive offices to make the average taxpayer want to toss the remote.
Splitting almost $1 million of "performance bonuses" among a dozen senior execs, for example, may be OK in private business, but is downright loopy in a public agency.
http://www.torontosun.com/news/columnists/greg_weston/2009/02/22/8481486-sun.html
CBC wants more
In hard economic times others cut, the public broadcaster begs
While most Canadian media outlets are slashing jobs and other costs to stay afloat in a sea of bad economic news for the industry, the CBC is once again rattling its tin cup for more handouts from taxpayers.
The public broadcaster already covers its costs in large part by siphoning just over $1 billion a year from the public purse.
But what about the rest of this massive bureaucracy? According to government figures, the CBC employs more people than all of the country's private TV broadcasters combined.
At a time when the financial survival of private broadcasters turns on increasingly scarce ad dollars, it's a tad hard to justify the CBC's using $1 billion of public funds to suck hundreds of millions of dollars a year out of the same revenue pool.
Over the past year, Sun Media has reported on enough examples of excess in the CBC executive offices to make the average taxpayer want to toss the remote.
Splitting almost $1 million of "performance bonuses" among a dozen senior execs, for example, may be OK in private business, but is downright loopy in a public agency.
