OTTAWA – While one-third of Canadians say they have read the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, many fail to distinguish between its text and that of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, a new sur...
Like it or not a lot of people’s knowledge about the system they exist in comes essentially via osmosis from the media they consume. And most of the media we consume is American. We laugh at Canadians who defend themselves referencing American laws but I suspect a poll of people who mistakenly believe that some American legal concept applies to them would be disturbingly high.
This is why CanCon laws and more recently the Online News Act are so important. We have the average person in school for 12-16 years and then a lifetime where you’d hope people would be somewhat self-driven in keeping informed about this stuff, but we’ve got the humanity we’ve got and not the one we’d wish we’d got so we’d better ensure the media Canadians are consuming informs us about our own system.
@grte#Saskatchewan has been subject to essentially a state radio program for years that is the singular voice telling the population what to believe. They go unchecked and the population has been largely indoctrinated because they feel no need to question or challenge the blatant disinformation platform. Without strong journalism and fact checking, #Saskatchewan will continue to be fleeced.
CanCon isn’t the answer until it pushes actual content instead of writers and production staff.
If Dick Wolf had done things differently, he could have made Law & Order in Canada without changing one thing in the scripts and had it labeled CanCon.
On the other hand, if he had decided to make a Law & Order actually that takes place in Canada without changing anything about the various writers and staff or production facilities, it couldn’t have been labeled CanCon.
I’m all for trying to build the industry, but I think it’s more important to reflect who we are.
Like it or not a lot of people’s knowledge about the system they exist in comes essentially via osmosis from the media they consume. And most of the media we consume is American. We laugh at Canadians who defend themselves referencing American laws but I suspect a poll of people who mistakenly believe that some American legal concept applies to them would be disturbingly high.
This is why CanCon laws and more recently the Online News Act are so important. We have the average person in school for 12-16 years and then a lifetime where you’d hope people would be somewhat self-driven in keeping informed about this stuff, but we’ve got the humanity we’ve got and not the one we’d wish we’d got so we’d better ensure the media Canadians are consuming informs us about our own system.
Which is why the Cons having the CBC in their crosshairs is so terrifying.
@grte #Saskatchewan has been subject to essentially a state radio program for years that is the singular voice telling the population what to believe. They go unchecked and the population has been largely indoctrinated because they feel no need to question or challenge the blatant disinformation platform. Without strong journalism and fact checking, #Saskatchewan will continue to be fleeced.
I hear lying on AM Radio is a prerequisite for any Conservative party leadership these days
CanCon isn’t the answer until it pushes actual content instead of writers and production staff.
If Dick Wolf had done things differently, he could have made Law & Order in Canada without changing one thing in the scripts and had it labeled CanCon.
On the other hand, if he had decided to make a Law & Order actually that takes place in Canada without changing anything about the various writers and staff or production facilities, it couldn’t have been labeled CanCon.
I’m all for trying to build the industry, but I think it’s more important to reflect who we are.