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Tuesday, June 13, 2006

SELF-CORRECTION... in the media!?

I found this article/headline most comforting:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060612.wdougg0612/BNStory/Entertainment/home

Apparently the CBC has gone to the trouble of getting a historical expert's opinion on the recently released to TV, movie on Tommy Douglas' life. While this has already aired it caused a fair bit of controversy due to its protrayal of certain other characters and personalities that surrounded Douglas at the time.

After this the CBC, it seems, got an independent opinion on how accurate the movie protrayed characters and found that it was not very accurate at all. CBC has now pulled the movie and the video/dvd release until the problem can be fixed.

This is a credit to the CBC and filmmaking in Canada. One cannot imagine such a thing happening in hollywood or on any of the US networks who make a habit of 'chaging the characters just enough so we don't have to pay royalties...' I'm quite proud of the CBC for this and am very very happy my tax dollars go to support this venerable, if left wing, institution.


Also, this is going to be wild. Normally I'd never recommend to anyone to watch Leno but this will be well worth missing letterman. Oh and KT Tunstall is the musical guest... this is going to rawk.

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060613/leno/20060613?hub=Entertainment

Cheers,

P

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