Ottawa restores state TV funding

After the government cut it’s funding of the television industry to $62.5m last year, the new budget announced that funding would be restored to the historical annual $100m until at least 2006.

Wonderful news! Long live our biased, unobjective, state-run media! Hooray that we have even less chance of hearing the truth about the government on TV! Ah, the glory days of Pravda and Goebbels’s Ministry of Propaganda are coming back. Canadians, too, can still boast of being better than China, for our People’s Daily is televised! Who needs a free press? It might be good enough for the USA, but not for us!

Television industry grateful for restoration of funding in federal budget

Members of the television industry breathed a sigh of relief as the federal government announced it will restore its financial contribution to the Canadian Television Fund.

Sandra Macdonald, president and CEO of the fund which supports the production of Canadian TV drama, said the announcement in the budget “clearly demonstrates that our government values the social and economic impact that Canadian television has on our society.”