pnewton:
That’s fine for Canada, but here in America, we don’t require members of the broadcast media to have knowledge of Geography… or History…Math?
Okay, we don’t require they have knowledge.
Please don’t put the CBC any higher on its secular humanist “pagan/GLBT-positive” pedestal than it places itself, my good Catholic American brother. They’re sucking you in. Don’t let them.
Here in Canada, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, “the public broadcaster” is roughly equivalent to NPR, but with nationwide separately programmed AM, FM and TV networks coast-to-coast-to-coast in both official languages, with a separate, simlarly-equipped set of broadcast networks for aboriginal peoples in the North. Given geography and population/tax base size, CBC is an unique technical accomplishment by world standards. Big whoop.
It’s also funded entirely by my tax dollars and has adopted a clearly visible mission to insult, denigrate, marginalize and otherwise degrade, belittle and at the very least misrepresent or ignore fact about the Catholic Church and faith. That’s the CBC’s capital-T tradition. Get a load of this story and site:
cbcwatch.ca/?q=node/view/219/296 For my American friends, imagine the effect of Paul Harvey comparing the Catholic Church to the Mafia. Page… Two!
Its management is a welcoming and encouraging sugar-daddy for “special interest” agendas. No behaviour is too much to merit its own celebrationally-toned documentary. This, in a Catholic nation (42% according to the latest Census:
www12.statcan.ca/english/census01/Products/Analytic/companion/rel/canada.cfm ) under a succession of Catholic leaders on whom John Kerry has nothing when it comes to “moral incoherence” (
wcr.ab.ca/bishops/henry/2004/henry061404.shtml ).
But the CBC is only the organ of discipline. If you really want an eye opener about freedom of speech, get your mind around the CRTC: the brains behind the operation. The Canadian Radio Television Commission, the public arbiter of taste in Canada, is a federal bureaucracy that has survived and spanned successive governments since the late 1960s. Originally commissioned to arbitrate allocation of public frequency spectrum (like the FCC), it has taken upon itself, and, ignoring legislators, has installed itself as the government agency that determines what I may and may not watch or listen to in Canada.
Until two years ago, the CRTC kept Canada on the list of countries that effectively blocks its citizens from receiving EWTN. Thanks to the tireless efforts of people in and out of Canada, like Mike Mishol of EWTN in the U.S., the only remaining country now on that list is Cuba. And yet, the CRTC still routinely refuses applications for Catholic Broadcasting on the public airwaves. They allow nationwide carriage of Radio Maria Canada as long as it’s mostly in Italian and only available on SCA-- (an essentially unused facility of commercial FM transmitters–you need a specialty radio).
Oh yeah–and cannot carry any other network’s programming.
(more, sorry but you MADE me open up this fresh can…)
and thought the same thing. He’s from St. Louis, you know. We know him well. He is indeed an ignoramus.
