velusip (02:41:36)
The history of the NFB (National Film Board of Canada) is a wild ride. They were responsible for creating a cultural identity for Canadians.

mirrorbird (02:40:56)
it's not gonna achieve the desired purpose

mirrorbird (02:40:50)
so if i'm a canadian-born person with an inteest in producing tv, but it so happens that MY childhood was all about US tv, and i copy what i know...

velusip (02:40:11)
Originally, there were content rules, but now it's just source and funding related.

mirrorbird (02:39:14)
so does it detail what this ca-produced content must *include*? does it have to be about maple syrup and stuff (dumb joke) -- but what stops them producing genuine local material that's maybe got nothing to do with local heritage

velusip (02:38:47)
s/my/by/

velusip (02:38:39)
Last stand of defiance from being gobbled up my US media.

velusip (02:38:13)
Very much still a law across all media outlets.

mirrorbird (02:37:56)
anyway they don't do that to preserve accents or vocab, i suppose, it's more about some nebulous idea of culture. whether kids' tv is going to preserve that, cough

mirrorbird (02:37:03)
canada has (or had?) that interesting law about having to show x% screen time of canadian content. i don't think we ever had such a law altho because of the BBC we traditionally did produce a bunch of stuff

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