Friday, December 03, 2010

CBC News - Canada - CBC shows anti-U.S. 'melodrama': WikiLeaks

CBC News - Canada - CBC shows anti-U.S. 'melodrama': WikiLeaks

U.S. diplomats in Ottawa wrote to Washington that the CBC pushes "insidious negative popular stereotyping" with "anti-American melodrama" in its entertainment TV programs, according to documents released by the website WikiLeaks.

In a cable dated Jan. 1, 2008, an unnamed U.S. diplomat writes that the CBC has "long gone to great pains to highlight the distinction between Canadians and Americans in its programming, generally at our expense."

The cable then warns that an increasing number of CBC television programs such as The Border, Intelligence and even Little Mosque on the Prairie "offer Canadian viewers their fill of nefarious American officials carrying out equally nefarious deeds in Canada while Canadian officials either oppose them or fall trying."



Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/12/01/wikileaks-cbc.html#ixzz174uflJhU

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