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By Wade Rowland
Monday June 6, 2016
Bell Media’s brusque announcement that it is killing Canada AM represents more than the loss of a morning news and current affairs program with a 40-year legacy. It is further evidence that private television, now in the hands of a clutch of corporate behemoths, is no longer in the business of serving the public interest.
It may come as a surprise to some readers that in law and regulation, the federal government continues to regard the entire Canadian broadcasting system as a public service-oriented enterprise. Under the current Broadcasting Act, responsibility for providing citizens with quality news, information, and entertainment is shared between private industry and our public broadcaster, CBC/Radio-Canada, both of which are heavily subsidized.
This “single-system” vision has been with us since the earliest days of radio in the 1920s, through the arrival of television in the 1950s, and into the current era of digital media delivered on a kaleidoscope of platforms.
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The CBC isn’t much in the business of serving the public interest either (especially considering it’s operating on the taxpayers’ dime), only the interests of their Liberal Party controllers, regardless of whether the Liberals form the government or are in opposition.