ANALYSIS: Looking hard at the Yale report and why the new CRTC model should not be adopted

To effectively regard the whole communications field through the broadcasting lens results in a distorted view By Konrad von Finckenstein and James Mitchell IN AN EFFORT TO PROVIDE a critical overview of the recent report by the Broadcast and Telecommunications Review Panel (the so-called Yale Report or BTLR Report), with particular focus on its ‘machinery’ recommendations (i.e., those having to do with institutional and ministerial mandates and powers), this analysis will highlight why the new-concept CRTC should be set aside. What the panel recommended The BTLR was asked, as part of its mandate, to comment on the institutional framework employed...