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Manufactured consent masquerading as news.
Hey CBC, if Canada Post gets privatized you may be next.
Did you read the article? They talk about this one guy who says they should be privatized, then go on to talk about why that isn't feasible or the problems those examples are already having with their privatized systems, including the drastically different population density. Its pretty clearly a "this doesnt make sense to do" article, even ending with "who would even want to buy it"
Its pretty clearly a “this doesnt make sense to do” article, even ending with “who would even want to buy it”
Good points but it isn't at all clear based on the headline, and there are other ways they could have phrased the headline. I've seen several pro-Freeland CBC headlines with articles that don't really back the headline up lately. I have a hypothesis that curating headlines may be a way higher up editors can apply the spin the even higher-ups tell them to while authors have more independence in the content of article. More people might read the headline than the article. To be clear, I don't know any of this is true, but my trust in mainstream news to do journalism versus PR is at an all-time low after the last year (e.g., US election, ethnic cleansing of Palestine)
Ask people in the UK well how privatization of services is working out for them 🤡. Privatization of public services is the rich stealing from everyone else
No, and I don't like people saying Canada Post lose millions per year, it's a service, like the military, do we say Canadian Forces are losing 40 billions per year?
Of course not.
Betteridge's Law of Headlines in full effect
No.
Why are we listening to what some American economist has to say? It's a public service, not a business. It's not there to make money. It costs money to deliver packages to remote locations, which Canada has plenty of.
Comparing Canada to UK, Belgium or Germany is nonsensical, as they don't have similar geography or population density.
No.
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