COMMENTARY: The Commission can only fix the barn for next time

THE CLOCK CAN'T BE TURNED back on announced acquisitions (CTV/CHUM, CanWest Global-Goldman Sachs/Alliance Atlantis and Astral/Standard) but the CRTC has decided it must look into the overall affect of media consolidation on the tenets of the Broadcasting Act.As predicted, this turned into a "locking the doors after the horses escaped" analogy in some quarters.In an interview with Cartt.ca on Wednesday, CRTC chair Konrad von Finckenstein (who must be a little shell-shocked with all that’s gone on within two months of taking the job) said yes, a thorough review of the diversity of voices in Canadian media maybe should have been...