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Legacy media dedicated far more coverage cheerleading Liberal programs than scrutinizing costs: study
A breakdown of media coverage found that CBC and CTV coverage promoting expensive Liberal government policies far overshadowed the few times the outlets reported on the programs’ cost to taxpayers.
According to a “machine content analysis” of government and media coverage, the two outlets spent more time covering the benefits of the government’s dental care, pharmacare, and childcare programs than they did on the programs’ costs for taxpayers.
A study released by the Fraser Institute on Thursday found that 4% of CBC and CTV television coverage of government programs noted the associated costs since 2021, when the federal childcare program, was announced.
The study used Wordstat an AI program, to analyze the content of the CBC and CTV broadcasts from Eureka, a database of television newscasts. It counted common phrases and individual word counts from the companies’ broadcasts on the dental care, pharmacare and childcare programs.
The Liberals’ childcare program was announced in Budget 2021. As part of the NDP-Liberal coalition deal, the dental-care program was announced Dec. 11, 2023, and pharmacare was announced Feb. 29, 2024. The programs were billed as an effort to make life more affordable for Canadians by further paying for healthcare costs.
Jack’s Note: I never watch CBC or CTV. I gave up on them long ago. The best thing that could happen to them is for their advertisers to pull their support. That would shake them up very quickly.
