Well, at least we won’t have to watch Law and Order re-runs

Posted by padams under Election 2008, Election 2008 Media commentary

Paul Adams

Elizabeth May is out…wow.

Unnoticed in the hoo-ha, however, was the fact that the consortium of broadcasters who control the debates scheduled the English-language outing for October 2, the same night as the vice-presidential debate in the United States.

So the Canadian people won’t be subjected to re-runs that night after all! And the networks won’t take a revenue-hit on the American shows they simulcast. I suppose you could say this is in the interest of all Canadians, couldn’t you? Hmmmm.

Time for a national debate commission, with clear rules and the public interest as its mandate.

A former political journalist with CBC and the Globe and Mail, Paul Adams is a member of Carleton’s journalism faculty and executive director of EKOS Research Associates.