CRTC TV Feedback Opportunity
With all things related to feedback to our government, you should take things with a grain of salt.
That said, the CRTC is encouraging feedback on local TV issues, fee-for-carriage and other problems related to our broadcasters.
A summary of my basic feedback: we can do better (to steal an oh-so inspirational line from Iggy).
The details: We can leverage the power of the Internet and user interaction to create content that will rival anything developed in the international community. We have many different, diverse voices in this country and all we seem to get is watered down and outrageously expensive pablum from the US.
Our broadcasters have been lazy, boring and dull for decades. More frustrating for the country’s progressives: they’ve been spewing biased vitriol for years under the guidance of Herr Harper and they are actively ruining our sense of democracy by taking our taxpayer dollars in the form of propaganda for the Harper Regime or for slagging the opposition leaders.
Unfortunately, now that they face a little competition, they’re running to the CRTC with their hands out begging for cash, whining about how the big bad Internet is stealing their business.
Conclusion: if you don’t want to pay for local content, pull the plug. Cancel your cable subscription (or satellite). If you want local content, plug in to what your friends and peers are saying on social networks online.