Comments on: Oscars > Dem Debate > … > Honoring Canadian Lifetime Achievement http://www.tunerds.com/stuff/content/blog/2008/02/22/oscars-dem-debate-honoring-canadian-lifetime-achievement/ Everything and Anything Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:58:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tim http://www.tunerds.com/stuff/content/blog/2008/02/22/oscars-dem-debate-honoring-canadian-lifetime-achievement/comment-page-1/#comment-5180 Tim Fri, 22 Feb 2008 23:15:11 +0000 http://www.tunerds.com/stuff/content/blog/2008/02/22/oscars-dem-debate-honoring-canadian-lifetime-achievement/#comment-5180 With this, http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080222.worderofcanada22/BNStory/National/home, at least one media outlet picked up on the event today. However, it's clearly more a story about Chrétien and Kosovo. With this, http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080222.worderofcanada22/BNStory/National/home, at least one media outlet picked up on the event today.
However, it’s clearly more a story about Chrétien and Kosovo.

]]> By: Riz http://www.tunerds.com/stuff/content/blog/2008/02/22/oscars-dem-debate-honoring-canadian-lifetime-achievement/comment-page-1/#comment-5176 Riz Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:32:31 +0000 http://www.tunerds.com/stuff/content/blog/2008/02/22/oscars-dem-debate-honoring-canadian-lifetime-achievement/#comment-5176 The idea proposed in the nyt article seems plausible. Regardless of the root causes, the symptoms are still the same You're right about the question of if recording the event is even allowed but as the press release indicates the media is welcome at the event and have an opportunity to interview the inductees. I can't see any obvious reasons why recording devices would be prohibited. Maybe some of the inductees don't like them? But I can guarantee everyone wants a picture of them shaking hands with the governor general. I'm not sure. The idea proposed in the nyt article seems plausible. Regardless of the root causes, the symptoms are still the same

You’re right about the question of if recording the event is even allowed but as the press release indicates the media is welcome at the event and have an opportunity to interview the inductees. I can’t see any obvious reasons why recording devices would be prohibited. Maybe some of the inductees don’t like them? But I can guarantee everyone wants a picture of them shaking hands with the governor general.

I’m not sure.

]]> By: Tim http://www.tunerds.com/stuff/content/blog/2008/02/22/oscars-dem-debate-honoring-canadian-lifetime-achievement/comment-page-1/#comment-5175 Tim Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:13:22 +0000 http://www.tunerds.com/stuff/content/blog/2008/02/22/oscars-dem-debate-honoring-canadian-lifetime-achievement/#comment-5175 You pose a very good question. Looking at this year's list of inductees, I can see a group of interesting people who have all had significant involvement in the makeup of Canadian life. Molly Johnson and Pamela Wallin are names certainly recognizable by a sizable portion of Canadians. While Gerald Schwartz is one of Canada's most prominent businessmen, this list also recognizes the healthcare with Dorothy Pringle and Ginette Lemire Rodger. I'm not suggesting that we should force 'Canadiana' on people against their will, there certainly is something wrong when we don't seem to show enough interest to warrant CBC showing this important ceremony. I wouldn't place immediate blame on the lowest-common-denominator style culture from the US, but rather something more along these lines: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/14/books/14dumb.html?ei=5087&em=&en=ed986aa2c486c13d&ex=1203310800&pagewanted=print (on an related note, do we know if the Governor General allows this ceremony to be recorded?) You pose a very good question. Looking at this year’s list of inductees, I can see a group of interesting people who have all had significant involvement in the makeup of Canadian life.
Molly Johnson and Pamela Wallin are names certainly recognizable by a sizable portion of Canadians. While Gerald Schwartz is one of Canada’s most prominent businessmen, this list also recognizes the healthcare with Dorothy Pringle and Ginette Lemire Rodger.
I’m not suggesting that we should force ‘Canadiana’ on people against their will, there certainly is something wrong when we don’t seem to show enough interest to warrant CBC showing this important ceremony.
I wouldn’t place immediate blame on the lowest-common-denominator style culture from the US, but rather something more along these lines:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/14/books/14dumb.html?ei=5087&em=&en=ed986aa2c486c13d&ex=1203310800&pagewanted=print

(on an related note, do we know if the Governor General allows this ceremony to be recorded?)

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