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The inside story of decades of government interference in the work of our national public broadcaster, CBC/Radio-Canada.
Is there a quiet campaign to hamstring and silence the CBC? In Losing Our Voice Alain Saulnier, long-time head of news and public affairs at Radio-Canada, documents the decades of political interference that have jeopardized the very existence of one of Canada’s most important cultural institutions.
For French-speaking Canadians, with limited options in their own language, the national broadcaster is all the more important. But tensions surrounding national unity and identity have exacerbated the tendency of federal politicians to meddle in CBC/Radio-Canada’s content and management. Saulnier takes us behind the scenes as these tensions play out, and culminate in the punitive Harper budget cuts.
Is there a quiet campaign to hamstring and silence the CBC? In Losing Our Voice Alain Saulnier, long-time head of news and public affairs at Radio-Canada, documents the decades of political interference that have jeopardized the very existence of one of Canada’s most important cultural institutions.
For French-speaking Canadians, with limited options in their own language, the national broadcaster is all the more important. But tensions surrounding national unity and identity have exacerbated the tendency of federal politicians to meddle in CBC/Radio-Canada’s content and management. Saulnier takes us behind the scenes as these tensions play out, and culminate in the punitive Harper budget cuts.
Price: $26.99
Pages: 224
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Imprint: Dundurn Press
Publication Date:
08 December 2015
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781459733152
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Media & Communications, Media, entertainment, information & communication industries, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Corruption & Misconduct, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Media & Internet, Radio, Political corruption, Cinema, TV & Radio industries
[Alain Saulnier's] immensely sad and troubling book should be required reading for anyone who cares about the cultural future of the country.
Saulnier's timely book makes it clear that a lot more vigilance from those outside the CBC is going to be required if Canada's struggling public broadcaster is ever going to be rescued from the politicians.
Saulnier's timely book makes it clear that a lot more vigilance from those outside the CBC is going to be required if Canada's struggling public broadcaster is ever going to be rescued from the politicians.
Alain Saulnier is a career journalist who was head of news and public affairs programming at Radio-Canada’s French-language radio, television, and web services until 2012.
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Beginnings
- Chapter 2: Temporary Difficulties
- Chapter 3: The End of the Monopoly, the Beginning of Tensions
- Chapter 4: A Collision of Identities: From the October Crisis in 1970 to the Election of the Parti Québécois in 1976
- Chapter 5: Pierre Trudeau Promises Change
- Chapter 6: 1984: Marcel Masse and Pierre Juneau
- Chapter 7: From One Referendum to Another
- Chapter 8: From One Government to Another
- Chapter 9: The Lacroix Style
- Chapter 10: The Conservative Style
- Chapter 11: The Great Dismantling
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1
- Appendix 2
- Notes
- Index