I have no disagreement. I think that is the case.
Having met with the former head of CBC English last week, one of the things he pointed out was the empire of the national news, which since 1985 has done its darndest to take money away from local news. Local news has suffered to the point.... You know, in 1985 CBC had more viewers of local news coast-to-coast than it had for the national news. Today the numbers for local news are almost non-existent. Very few people at CBC watch local news. The money for local news disappeared, and the national news took all that.
Those are the kinds of things that happen. What you are describing, yes, it does happen.