LETTER TO THE EDITOR: CRTC should listen carefully to Jessica

NEXT WEEK IN OTTAWA, TV broadcasters will tell their regulator, the CRTC, that they want fewer rules and more ways to make money. They will raise the alarm about how difficult it is these days to make money from traditional advertising because of all of the competition for eyeballs coming from new-fangled media, like the Internet, pay TV, and cell phones. They will plead for measures to help them climb back from merely profitable to very profitable. And they may well get their way. After all, they have powerful friends in Ottawa. In fact, the minister responsible for broadcasting regulation,...