TONIGHT: Traveling to Sydney to speak of Ontario, Urumqi, Beijing. Then to Tehran, Beirut, Jerusalem, and Straits of Hormuz. From Toronto to Buenes Aires to DC, from Minsk to the South China Sea.
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
4.5 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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TONIGHT: Traveling to Sydney to speak of Ontario, Urumqi, Beijing. Then to Tehran, Beirut, Jerusalem, and Straits of Hormuz. From Toronto to Buenes Aires to DC, from Minsk to the South China Sea.
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| 0:28.5 | Good evening. Tonight a conversation with my colleague Conrad Black writing for the |
| 0:35.4 | National Post about the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Conrad says it is always under |
| 0:42.0 | pressure from some members of the Conservative Party who wanted to raise its own funds and |
| 0:47.3 | no longer be in some fashion subsidized by the state. On the other hand, the Liberal Party |
| 0:53.0 | now in power many years believes that the CBC is a helpmate and wants to subsidize it |
| 1:01.6 | the more. I learned from Conrad that the CBC can be divided into four parts. There's French |
| 1:08.5 | radio and English radio. Those are two. There's French TV and there's English TV. Three of those |
| 1:14.7 | are very successful. French radio and French TV. And English radio is very excellent and |
| 1:23.0 | successful across the country. The weak member of the quartet is English TV, perhaps because |
| 1:32.5 | it spends a deal of time unhappy with Canada according to Conrad. In any event, all of this |
| 1:39.6 | lends to a positive air for having a national broadcaster, especially radio that allows |
| 1:46.4 | the Canadian people to experience the news. Canada is a G7 country. I endorse National |
| 1:53.5 | Public Radio in this country and the public broadcasting company, system company because |
| 2:01.0 | they are a national voice. And in small towns across America, especially college towns, |
| 2:08.6 | National Public Radio is extremely successful. Very, very prominent. Morning edition. My |
| 2:13.8 | many years in my writers, Garrett and Manhattan, the radio news I listened to each morning was |
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