Cl LOUD are the lamen- tations from the elite over the cuts faced by the CBC. You might think that war had been declared. The’ “Friends of the CBC” are sure it has been. Would you lose any sleep if it disappeared? A case can be made for CBC radio, which at least provides some decent music. But in the main the corpse is like some old battleship that’s being towed off for scrap. On its rusting decks a skeleton crew from the cul- tural elite is to be seen jump- ing up and down, waving for help unhceding peasants who are on shore picking their - Noses. Some of the messages to be heard from the poor old scow when the wind is in the right direction are good for laughs. . ‘In Toronto, Michael Valpy of the Globe & Mail _ Stamps his little feet and shouts that “without the CBC we don’t have a coun- try.” Then what did we have ; before the CBC was invent-. . ed? West Van’s Daryl Duke ‘beats his drum in the Vancouver Sun, recalling the days when the old boat’ boasted some ie big guns and Cn not tune Mad enseeneeneseaneeseeescnatarsacesdoeeesnanes Wg) ON the a other band was watched, Daryl is a fine film pro- ducer. He also founded CKVU in the 1970s and pro- duced some good programs in the days when the CBC was just about the only ship in the dock. That was then. This is now, And the scene has changed slightly. Like some retired admiral who snorts that nuclear subs can’t be compared with the glories of the Dreadnoughts, Duke recalls the good old days when money was no object and he and others had a free hand to shoot first and ask questions afterwards. He also quotes the boss of the BEC in England who said, with an eye on his own interests, “A single global culture will mean an Americanized world culture.” That’s what we have now, stupid. Haven’t you been to the movies recently? The headline over Duke’s lament in the Siz was “Who stands on guard?”, which 0 Canad suggested that without the CBC we are all dished. But we are dished anyway. Even with the CBC, Especially with the CBC. More than any other sin- gle media outlet the CBC is responsible for smashing tra- ditional values in this coun- try. [t has also been femi- nized, especially in Vancouver. It has led the attack on things of which Conadians used to be proud, like the military — past and present. Do I have ro remind you of The Valour and the Horror, which a professor of military history and others denounced as “pure propa- ganda?” Then there was that pro- gram on Dieppe. Certainly, Dieppe was a disaster. But as Col. Cecil Merritt, who won the VC there has stated, the CBC has no interest in paying trib- ure to Canadian hae “They just want to make an aati-war message.” Less than 10% of us watch the CBC even though we have to pay for it whether we watch it or not. 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