Comment 81985

By highwater (registered) | Posted October 19, 2012 at 13:52:42 in reply to Comment 81982

I attended the panel discussion on the future of the CBC at MIP a couple of weeks ago, and was very disturbed by something Paul Berton said. He gave the CBC back-handed praise for crediting their audience with intelligence, but then claimed that all the smart talk makes the average person feel the CBC is "arrogant".

Leaving aside the disturbing revelation that the editor of our most influential media outlet thinks that not talking down to your audience is arrogant, I was struck again by this as I listened to RG's dilemma.

Here is a guy who is likely cognizant of the kind of criticism expressed by Berton (and probably under pressure from higher-ups to increase readership as well), and is trying to address it by providing content that is more 'popular', only to alienate the core audience they've cultivated over the years by providing quality journalism. He can't win.

Comment edited by highwater on 2012-10-19 14:02:38

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