CBC responds by Jeff Keay
Source : National Post
September 6, 2008
Re: CBC Blocked Listeners' E-mails: Watchdog, Sept. 4.
The "campaign" currently being undertaken by Ian Morrison of Friends of Canadian Broadcasting against CBC Radio 2 is both misguided and detrimental to the country's rich musical community. Generally, his claims are inaccurate or misleading: Radio 2 has not and will not abandon classical music. And he is incorrect in suggesting we are not fulfilling our broadcasting mandate, which is to represent the musical diversity of the country. Incredibly, he suggests our programming decisions are somehow being driven by the Prime Minister.
But it is his central thesis which is most fundamentally off the mark and which we categorically reject: that there is no Canadian music other than classical worthy of airplay on the public broadcaster's main radio music service. Perhaps Mr. Morrison could identify those Canadian artists who should be excluded? Canada's musicians don't need "friends" like these.
Jeff Keay, CBC media relations, Toronto.
© National Post
The "campaign" currently being undertaken by Ian Morrison of Friends of Canadian Broadcasting against CBC Radio 2 is both misguided and detrimental to the country's rich musical community. Generally, his claims are inaccurate or misleading: Radio 2 has not and will not abandon classical music. And he is incorrect in suggesting we are not fulfilling our broadcasting mandate, which is to represent the musical diversity of the country. Incredibly, he suggests our programming decisions are somehow being driven by the Prime Minister.
But it is his central thesis which is most fundamentally off the mark and which we categorically reject: that there is no Canadian music other than classical worthy of airplay on the public broadcaster's main radio music service. Perhaps Mr. Morrison could identify those Canadian artists who should be excluded? Canada's musicians don't need "friends" like these.
Jeff Keay, CBC media relations, Toronto.
© National Post
