Former CBC insider trashes its one-sided, 'thoughtless cheerleading'

Recommended Videos Article content “Everything ends in time,” he observes, “and I believe that (CBC’s) properties, its idea that it would belong to the audience, that it would stake its legitimacy on the audience, has brought it to a place where it has only one preferred audience — and can’t address the rest of the country, and can’t get outside or above or beyond the assumptions it shares with that audience — so it’s become a kind of boutique.” Between 1971 and 2012, Cayley worked as a producer, documentary-maker and program host at CBC Radio. Much of his career was spent at Ideas, a program that explained current affairs to Canadians and introduced people across the country to a range of themes and thinkers. More recently, he authored The CBC: How Canada’s Public Broadcaster Lost It