It seems to me that a partial solution to this puzzle can be found in the moral impulse, which is both a necessary and sufficient condition for proving the existence of moral absolutes, that is, values that are applicable in all cases, at all times, in all places. (Or, alternatively, values that are recognizable from all social, cultural and temporal perspectives.) The very fact of the existence of the moral impulse certainly denies the validity of moral relativism as a coherent philosophy.
Author: Wade
There’s nothing wrong with the likes of Rogers and Google and Bell trying to make a buck on the debates. But it is important that these programs of national significance be made as widely accessible as possible. And that means that the CBC, with its television and radio networks and its online services—all built at public expense precisely to ensure universality—be included in the distribution process.
whether the new digital media are a natural extension of print, or of radio and television, is a moot point. Sites like thestar.com and cbc.ca are an amalgam of both traditions. So broadcasters might as easily complain about newspaper websites horning in on their territory as vice-versa.
Mr. Chambers, who led the team that came up with the CBC strategic plan just announced, appears to be a major part of that problem. The only viable strategy for the survival of our much–loved, much-criticized, and grievously afflicted CBC is for it to rediscover what it means to be a true public broadcaster, and to follow that path.
With a sense of great urgency, we, the undersigned, call upon you and all members of the Board,
to consider the inevitable consequence of this most recent funding cut in particular, and, in
accordance with your responsibility as Board members, to clearly and publicly inform the
Government that these cuts will effectively eviscerate CBC/Radio Canada and will ultimately bring
about the demise of this important and valued national public service.
r. Lacroix and his senior management team, and the Board of Directors—each in law and precedent charged with defending public broadcasting in this country—should resign, and call for an immediate and complete rethinking of CBC/Radio-Canada’s untenable financing and governance.
the public broadcaster is not a business in any conventional sense. It exists not to make money or to satisfy any financial goals, but to fill a public need—one that is not being served by private media outlets. The CBC is a public good, like the school system, like medicare, like our universities and colleges, our public museums and galleries.
New research on the impact of national public broadcasters has the potential to inject a fresh theme into the ongoing discussions in this country around what to do about the struggling CBC/Radio-Canada.