Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! === {{Anchor|Catherine Tait comparing Netflix's influence to colonialism}}CBC President's comparison of Netflix's influence to colonialism === In January 2019 CBC President [[Catherine Tait]] came under fire for comparing [[Netflix]] to colonial [[imperialism]] in [[Western imperialism in Asia|India]] and parts of [[Imperialism in Africa|Africa]].<ref>{{cite news| url=https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/cbc-president-tait-warns-of-cultural-imperialism-danger-from-netflix| title=CBC president Catherine Tait compares Netflix to colonialism of the British and French empires| website=National Post| date=January 31, 2019}}</ref> Tait did not offer an apology and [[Heather Mallick]] defended her comparison.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/2019/02/04/cbc-chief-stands-up-to-us-cultural-swamping.html| title=CBC chief stands up to U.S. cultural swamping| website=Toronto Star| date=February 4, 2019| access-date=April 11, 2019| archive-date=March 25, 2019| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190325060827/https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/2019/02/04/cbc-chief-stands-up-to-us-cultural-swamping.html| url-status=live}}</ref> Tait's comments made American headlines with J.J. McCullough of ''[[The Washington Post]]'' suggesting that "the state-sponsored" corporation shielded her from criticism and that the Canadian industry "was built in part as a bulwark against American influence".<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/02/07/no-popularity-american-tv-canada-is-not-imperialism/| title=No, the popularity of American TV in Canada is not 'imperialism'| first=J.J.| last=McCullough| newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]| date=February 7, 2019| access-date=April 11, 2019| archive-date=March 22, 2019| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190322190659/https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/02/07/no-popularity-american-tv-canada-is-not-imperialism/| url-status=live}}</ref> Canadian TV critic [[John Doyle (critic)|John Doyle]], who has long criticized what he perceives as the low standards of Canadian programming, claimed that CBC had a problem of complacency rather than imperialism.<ref>{{cite web |last=Doyle |first=John |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/television/article-cbcs-problem-is-complacency-not-netflix-imperialism/ |title=CBC's problem is complacency not imperialism |website=The Globe and Mail |date=February 6, 2019 |access-date=December 29, 2019 |archive-date=July 27, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200727070224/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/television/article-cbcs-problem-is-complacency-not-netflix-imperialism/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page