Two media-related notes...no, make that three

[dewline]

First, there's this one:

http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/926428--truth-lies-and-broadcasting-in-canada

Bad enough that what trust we have for truth in advertising up here might be about to take a major hit in the breadbasket. For details on what the CRTC's announced on this:

http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2011/2011-14.htm

And then I'm hearing reports that the CBC's English-language stations' broadcast licenses are all coming before the CRTC for renewal hearings this year(along with everyone else's):

http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/process/tvcal2011_12.htm

And in a completely "WTH!!!" vein, with sympathy for my British friendlisters:

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/media/story/2011/01/24/bbc-online-cuts-budget.html

Talk about shock and awfulness.

Comments

Those sons of bitches

[ed-rex.livejournal.com]

Thanks muchly for the links, I'd missed the story. Maybe now people will believe me when I say that Harper's got a hidden agenda. (Well, probably not; but I'll keep trying.)

Hidden in plain sight perhaps?

[dewline.livejournal.com]

You do have to know where to look, but I don't believe his endgame goals have ever truly been hidden from any and all who care to look for them. After all, he wouldn't want them to stay hidden from those who'd share those goals for either the same reasons as the man himself or for reasons of their own to discover the fact. And apparently didn't. CTV's still got that infamous speech of his up on their online archives, and it's almost certainly been duplicated elsewhere by friends and foes alike.