Local Television

In the past year or so, we have been informed of the danger of losing local television due to the cable companies charging us for their programming and yet not giving that money to the stations that they are providing.  Now that doesn’t seem fair at all.  So for the past while, there have been campaigns to save local television that, to my understanding, have been fairly successful.  It would be a shame if we lost local programming, because then we would likely lose local news (either that or local news would change, not for the better).  For as long as I can remember, my household watched CTV news.  The attitude and format of the local Winnipeg station is something I have grown accustomed to.  I was reading CTV.ca this morning, and I read a story about a U of M student was stabbed on campus.  The student did not die and apparently is in stable condition.  You would not get stories like this on a national news broadcast.  It is not relevant enough to the whole of Canada.  Local stations also seem to actually cover stories relevant to the people of the community, instead of running their own agenda.  (That is not to say that they don’t have their own angle.  After all, they are media.)  I would genuinely miss local news programming if it was not around all of a sudden.  Alright, that’s all I have to say about this as I grow aware of the fact that I have inevitably just given a plug for local CTV news.  Oh well.

Quote of the day:

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

   -John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)-

Word of the day: milieu:

\meel-YUH; meel-YOO\ , noun:

1. Environment; setting.