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June 24, 2006
Senate Committee Prefers Tax Dollars to Ad-Revenue on CBC
I know there are lots of people out there who think that Canada needs the CBC so we don't lose our "unique Canadian voice". Whatever. It's just too bad that it has to cost a billion dollars a year in government support to do that.
I, like a lot of other people much younger than the people who made the recommendation that CBC go ad-free, don't really watch much TV and tend to get my information from the internet.
So, I'm quite happy that advertisers pay for my grandparents to have a Canadian network to watch than me having to via my tax dollars.
This kind of thinking just kills me. Government regulating things that they don't seem to genuinely understand is a pain and just disrupts the flow of business for the people who do.
The whole media space is just going to keep getting more and more fragmented. As long as they don't start horsing around with trying the regulate the internet I don't much care.
Posted by Derek Leverington at 8:50 AM | Comments (0)