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Wasteland'”, Laurie Ouellette and Justin Lewis critique how public broadcasting functions in the US. Liberal reformers hold to the view that television needs protection from commercialism. The liberal reformer view contains cultural and class hierarchies. They believe that public television is for the white, college-educated middle-class viewer who has “cultural capital”(Ouellette & Lewis, 96). As a result, funding for public broadcasting has gone primarily towards high culture and intellectual programs

(2013c) 'Broadcasting Regulatory Policy on the Distribution of Canadian Category C national news speciality services' marks a new regulatory approach to distributing competitive news and sports programming in Canada. This policy is a response to Canadians' concerns over consumer choice due to program bundling and an inability to select news and sports programs on a stand-alone basis (CRTC, 2013c; CRTC, 2014). Based on the Commission's public notice on 'Regulatory Framework for Broadcasting Distribution

The question then becomes do we need a public broadcaster to enhance democracy? The answer is yes. Public broadcasting is needed to enhance democracy in Canada because our society depends heavily on media influence and this influence has increased over the years, it is a platform for Canadian culture to be represented in the media and it ensures that Canadians

Charles Marius Barbeau’s Ethnography and the Canadian Folklore Born on 5 March 1883, in Sainte-Marie-de-Bauce, Charles Marius Barbeau is widely seen as the first Canadian educated anthropologist. He graduated from Université Laval in Québec, from his studies of law, in 1907; he never practised law. Upon graduating, Marius was awarded – as the first French-Canadian recipient – the Cecil Rhodes scholarship which allowed him to study at Oxford University where he was introduced to the emerging

Television news vs. Newspaper When it comes to finding about the news of what’s going on in our world, we want details and facts. We want the juice of what’s actually going on. The debate between the efficiency of newspapers and TV news, TV news is a lot more effective. Watching the news on TV is a lot easier for people to understand and is more convenient than reading it on paper. For the people who are always in a rush in the morning, it’s more convenient to turn on the TV and listen to what’s

Dealing with a Dictator. Directed by Mark Kelley. 2016. In the documentary, “Dealing with a Dictator”, Mark Kelley, the director, tries to uncover a Canadian mining company name Nevsun. Nevsun is a company that has invested money in a country called Eritrea which is located in Africa. Eritrea is a country rich in minerals such as gold, copper, bronze, silver, etc. Nevsun invested in Eritrea by digging a mine to obtain minerals and make business in Canada. As shown in the documentary, one of the

funded, in part, by corporations. In discussion section 306 Joe mentioned that the Ford Motor Company is one of PBS’ big corporate sponsors (2016). The very definition of public television is that the content is publicly funded; whether through government grants, or public donations. A corporation stepping in to supply funding ruins the sanctity of the public broadcasting, by taking the bias out of what is produced and how it is produced. If PBS is in part funded by corporations, the whole idea of

“Each year the United States spends .014% of its budget on public broadcasting. This amounted to approximately $445 million spent on funding towards public broadcasting in 2012.”(Defending Public Broadcasting Should Not Be Done Lightly) The funding was meant to help public broadcasting stations get to a state where they could support themselves on their own. However, many stations continued to take the funding even though they did not require it. Despite this, the stations that abused the funding

subcultural classes to enable them to be knowledgeable concerning sport, weather, finance, and general issues from around the world, using this easily accessible and logical medium. Two of the most well-known services are Channel Seven and the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC). The Channel Seven Network gains funds from commercial revenue and concentrates on providing news that is appealing to the general public and entertaining. High ratings are crucial to Channel Seven as it is privately owned and

Canada. They are the world’s largest producer of newsprint, nickel, and asbestos. Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver are rated some of the best cities in the world. There is also Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), which bring us Canadians radio and television broadcasts the news, music, and entertainment. (Schwind, 2010, p. 3) Even though Canada is a leader and a top competitor around the world in regards to business, resources, talent, and innovation, there are still many challenges facing