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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: Free trade, Canadian culture, $$
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Date: Mon, 23-Feb-87 16:43:21 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 23 16:43:21 1987
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In keeping with my recent nasty comments about "Canadian culture" == "TV",
here's a concrete proposal.  This first came to mind as a silly idea, but
then I thought about it for a moment and decided it might have merit.

We all know that TV is mostly crud.  The CBC may be a bit above average,
but it's not a major exception to the general statement.  This suggests to
me that most of the money spent on CBC TV is not a terribly good investment
in Canadian culture.  Unless this can be changed -- how? -- it should stop.

Now, I have no idea what proportion of the CBC budget goes where, but I
suspect that physical realities put an awful lot of it into TV production.

What awful consequences would there be to our National Identity if the CBC
went back to being radio only?
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