Path: utzoo!yunexus!maccs!riehm From: riehm@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Carl Riehm) Newsgroups: can.general Subject: Re: CBC Subsidy - he who watches should pay? Keywords: CBC, economics, pay, viewer Message-ID: <24FC259E.27426@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> Date: 30 Aug 89 18:21:18 GMT Article-I.D.: maccs.24FC259E.27426 References: <3249@watale.waterloo.edu> <639@UALTAVM.BITNET> <1989Aug27.190417.10461@tmsoft.uucp> <620274961.3538@myrias.com> <3714@uwovax.uwo.ca> Reply-To: riehm@maccs.UUCP (Carl Riehm) Distribution: can Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario Lines: 17 In article <3714@uwovax.uwo.ca> J G Miller writes: >In article <620274961.3538@myrias.com>, dre@myrias.com (Duane Eitzen) writes: >> You enjoy listening to CBC. I enjoy listening to my CD collection. >> You don't help me pay for my CD's. Why should I help you pay for >> the CBC? > >Well if one is going to approach Canadian culture from the aspect >of "who uses it, pays for it" monetarism, then why not re-organize >CBC along the lines of PBS, and individual stations have to raise etc. etc. I think an earlier correspondent has already made the point that if Canadians by and large don't watch it (or participate in it, or...) then it isn't Canadian culture. This is not a matter of "monetarism", but the point of view of "who uses it, pays for it" does have the beneficial effect of allowing Canadians to decide for themselves what Canadian culture is rather than having the CBC or any other small group of people make the decision.