Cable / Telecom News

COMMENTARY: Journalists should look past the easy mark

THERE'S SO MUCH UNINFORMED nonsense on display in the Canadian consumer media about how the Canadian television industry works and the CRTC's role in it that most of us in the business tend to just ignore it. Columnists and reporters at many daily newspapers, in on-line forums and sometimes even on radio or television, misplace blame for many things broadcast – and most often they lay fault for anything they perceive is wrong with the system at the feet of the CRTC. For a reporter, it's a really easy score. Why do a little work and figure out what's what...