{"id":646,"date":"2006-07-19T20:09:14-04:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-20T00:09:14+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2006\/07\/19\/not-about-cbc-and-the-one-but-it-could-be\/"},"modified":"2006-07-19T20:11:08-04:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-20T00:11:08+00:00","slug":"not-about-cbc-and-the-one-but-it-could-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2006\/07\/19\/not-about-cbc-and-the-one-but-it-could-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Not about CBC and &ldquo;The One&rdquo;, but it could&nbsp;be"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/thestar.blogs.com\/azerb\/2006\/07\/not_so_chummy.html\" title=\"Glen Kirby\"><p>News programming used to be a social commitment. Stories would reflect the community and its values, not unlike a politician elected to represent the ideals of his or her voters. A TV station&#8217;s identity was forged largely through the faces, attitudes and responsibilities of its news division.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Now, the overriding concern of every TV program is to make money.  Cheap syndication replaces more expensive local news content. The ability to reflect one&#8217;s community through educating, enlightening stories is tarnished by ratings-driven titillation. New York Times columnist Frank Rich wrote of <q>a 20-year trend in which the media &#8230; have steadily replaced journalistic standards with those of show business.<\/q><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div><div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"News programming used to be a social commitment. Stories would reflect the community and its values, not unlike a politician elected to represent the ideals of his or her voters. A TV station&#8217;s identity was forged largely through the faces, attitudes and responsibilities of its news division. Now, the overriding concern of every TV program&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"venue_id":0},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}