OT - Stop The TV Tax

[Darryl Moore]

I'm not quite sure what the point is you are trying to make here, but I
doubt very much there was any political interference, particularly of
the kind you imply.

The quality of shows that can be produced by public broadcasters is as
good as any other broadcasters. It has been demonstrated by BBC, PBS,
and yes even the CBC, many time over.

Given that, and with the threat our current Internet presents to the
private broadcasting business models, I am sure that the real solution
is to pump more public money into our public broadcasters for drama and
cultural production, and leave the public broadcasters to service the
live entertainment TV market such as sports, news and special events.

Mel Wilson wrote:
> Darryl Moore wrote:
>> Oddly enough a real tax that the government collects, like the BBC TV
>> tax, I'd be all in favour of.
>>
>> If we can actually manage to make the paradigm shift in the right
>> direction, then this will be a really good way to fund the creation of
>> national cultural content. That content could then be distributed freely
>> via efficient Internet P2P.
> 
> This, through no fault of its own, hit one of my hot buttons.  Both
> _DaVinci's City Hall_ and _Intelligence_ got canceled.  Both were shows
> about the use of politics and political power in Canada -- DaVinci could
> have been Canada's _West Wing_.  But no!  There are words you can't say
> on television; two of them are "senator" and "cabinet minister".
> 
>     Mel.
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