Word: alle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stop & Start. The main theme of criticism is that the U.S. merely reacts to events-"stop-and-start" diplomacy, Capehart calls it-rather than taking imaginative initiative. One example of policy drift was Panama, where the U.S. was hastening to make concessions after a series of riots. Other examples: the...
* Even Harry Truman got into the act, with a judgment that Fidel Castro "would be all right if he had a haircut and decent clothes."
Corporately, CBC is a government-owned network with nine stations of its own plus 44 privately owned affiliates strung along the world's longest (4,200 miles) microwave hookup. Canada justifies government ownership by the need for serving up Canadian culture to an audience uneconomically scattered across a vast...
Fiction, Fact, Fun. Thus bankrolled, CBC regards advertisers with what the U.S. networks would consider downright disdain. Instead of turning over its programing to packagers, CBC puts together its own schedule, then sells ads under the same conditions as newspapers and magazines, confining commercials to seven minutes an hour. It...
Strenuous & Serious. Though CBC scorns the rating game,*its prize shows are highly popular. Closeup sends cameramen anywhere (Cuba, Egypt, Taiwan), interviews anyone (Evelyn Waugh, Brigitte Bardot), tackles any subject (homosexuality in Canada). CBC is strong on serious drama (recent example: The Crucible') and occasionally goes all out for...