The As It Happens Files by Mary Lou Finlay

Author:Mary Lou Finlay [Finlay, Mary Lou]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-0-307-37300-7
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Published: 2008-08-22T04:00:00+00:00

This story, like the one about Barbara’s Canada Council grant, raised the dander of a few listeners. Around the office, some people were shocked about how plausible Mr. Beatty made it all sound. They even worried for a time about whether we had accidentally stumbled on a plan that might turn out to be true. It was true that the RCMP had given Disney control over who’d be allowed to use the Mountie image around the world.

In the end, there was no deal between the CBC and Disney—but maybe there should have been. Constant budget cuts and failing ratings and ad revenues (CBC Television does carry commercials) and the neglect, benign or otherwise, of successive governments have left the corporation cash-strapped and stressed. I hope it survives these trying times as it has survived challenges in the past, because it’s hard to imagine Canada without the CBC and impossible to imagine it without As It Happens.

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