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Get Brian Lilley’s book about the CBC FREE — for a very limited time

November 5, 2013 By Kathy Shaidle

“The political book of the year” — a cool read about Canada’s state broadcaster and what they really do with your tax dollars.

FREE for Kindle until this Friday.

Rick McGinnis reviewed it here:

Like many Canadians, I’ve tied myself in knots trying to understand and even defend the CBC, motivated mostly by a nostalgic fondness for its place in our history and national mythology. I’ve made suggestions for how it could survive and even thrive in a transformed media marketplace, with the stubborn sentiment that the CBC has a role to play. But thanks partly to books like Lilley’s, but mostly to the CBC’s own actions, I find it hard not to agree with Lilley that we might have passed the point where a national broadcaster plays anything like a vital, or even healthy, role in Canada’s future.

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