miller@uwovax.uwo.ca (Greg Miller) (08/30/89)
In article <620274961.3538@myrias.com>, dre@myrias.com (Duane Eitzen) writes: > You enjoy listening to CBC. I enjoy listening to my CD collection. > You don't help me pay for my CD's. Why should I help you pay for > the CBC? Well if one is going to approach Canadian culture from the aspect of "who uses it, pays for it" monetarism, then why not re-organize CBC along the lines of PBS, and individual stations have to raise money from the viewers who watch. If you feel you should not pay for CBC television (presumably you are only referring to the English language service) then surely you must also object to la television de Radio Canada being provided in areas where the number of French speaking viewers tends to zero (similarly for CBC in purely Francophone districts). //Greg Miller
riehm@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Carl Riehm) (08/31/89)
In article <3714@uwovax.uwo.ca> J G Miller <a4346uwocc1.uwo.CA> writes: >In article <620274961.3538@myrias.com>, dre@myrias.com (Duane Eitzen) writes: >> You enjoy listening to CBC. I enjoy listening to my CD collection. >> You don't help me pay for my CD's. Why should I help you pay for >> the CBC? > >Well if one is going to approach Canadian culture from the aspect >of "who uses it, pays for it" monetarism, then why not re-organize >CBC along the lines of PBS, and individual stations have to raise etc. etc. I think an earlier correspondent has already made the point that if Canadians by and large don't watch it (or participate in it, or...) then it isn't Canadian culture. This is not a matter of "monetarism", but the point of view of "who uses it, pays for it" does have the beneficial effect of allowing Canadians to decide for themselves what Canadian culture is rather than having the CBC or any other small group of people make the decision.