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5 steps to CBC success
How to program a national public broadcasting corporation:
- Operate a respected international cable news channel.
- Create an innovative, ground-breaking television program using all the techniques of social media Web sites more than five years before it becomes cliched.
- Get praise for the former, and inspire a former vice-president to copy the model outright.
- Stop producing content for the respected news outlet so said ex-vice-president can use the channel to host the aforementioned copy.
- Wait about four years, and strike a deal to create a Canadian version of the groundbreaking news channel that resulted from those deals.
The Batboy:
I respectively have to disagree with your obvious love affair with ZeD… yes it was groundbreaking, but really how great can it be if it never pierced the consciousness of even a wide range of alternative and creative types like yourself :) in the end it was suffered from the SNL effect - being very smart and creative, but boring and ultimately unwatchable by the mainstream.
Nov. 12 2008 at 7:40 PM EST
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Craig Saila:
True the later seasons were borderline pretentious and often dull, but the first couple were brilliant.
No matter, this little narrative just seemed so indicative of a lot of projects run through the Mother Corp. in the past few years.
Despite how it came to be, Current Canada, we can only hope, might reverse those recent trends.
Nov. 12 2008 at 9:02 PM EST
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The Batboy:
I also believe, unfortunately, that the whole failed ZeD experiment caused the big forehead types at MC to rethink the CBC’s identity and adopt an “If-you-can‘t-beat-’em-join-’em” mentality that produced the dumbing down of the product by ridding itself of docs and creative shows like On The Map for reality-TV schlock like How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria and soap operas like Little Mosque.
Nov. 12 2008 at 9:57 PM EST
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