If you happened to miss Michael Geist's article on the CBC at Canada.com today you should go now and unmiss it. Geist is, according to his website , the Canada Research Chair in Internet & E-commerce Law, University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law and his article echoes much of what has been said, in various forums in discussing what the future of the CBC should look like.
I do not agree with him completely, but I rarely agree with anyone completely. For example:
While the 500-channel universe may have eroded the need for publicly funded programming choices,
is not really a statement that I can get behind. I think that the erosion of commercial funding is going to make publicly funded, or at least subsidised programming a necessity if Canada is going to have a voice in North America or the world.
But beyond that, Geist points out steps that the Norwegian, British, and Australian public broadcasters have taken to create a more user friendly, on demand, content rich, interactive public broadcasting experience. As you know if you've been reading this blog for any time at all, I'm all for that.
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