VITAMEDIAS
The Canadian television industry is stupid.: Not necessarily the people who make the programs or the shows that end up on our TV screens. What's stupid is the system in which these people work and which provides the money for the programs we supposedly want to see. And because it is stupid -- or, as Bill Mustos, a senior vice-president with CTV, puts it, "complex, contradictory and labyrinthine" - it makes people say and do goofy things, including Heritage Minister Sheila Copps and Finance Minister John Manley.
All this has become especially and painfully obvious in the last three weeks, following the April 14 announcement by the Canadian Television Fund (CTF) - that hodge-podge of government agencies and cable and satellite industries concocted by Jean Chrétien's Liberals in 1996 - that it was going to be able to assist only 73 of 202 applications for drama, variety and kids shows from its $75-million Licence Fee Program (LFP).
[O que dizer então do sistema de financiamento português?...