CBC pushes 'anti-American melodrama': WikiLeaks

[alp227]

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 to be 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."

The diplomat goes on: "While this situation hardly constitutes a public diplomacy crisis per se, the degree of comfort with which Canadian broadcast entities, including those financed by Canadian tax dollars, twist current events to feed long-standing negative images of the U.S. — and the extent to which the Canadian public seems willing to indulge in the feast — is noteworthy as an indication of the kind of insidious negative popular stereotyping we are increasingly up against in Canada."

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

[riverbendviewgal]

1. We are different

Canadians mindset is We are all in this boat together. We are caring...we don't go for the almighty dollar... We are living on greed.

Two of the shows the cables discussed was THE LITTLE MOSQUE ON THE PRAIRIE....and THE BORDER........

I am proud to like these shows....Another good one is FLASH POINT.

I am proud to be Canadian

see our poll today on the front page of The Toronto Star.
http://www.thestar.com/

Do you think the release of government documents by Wikileaks this week is a threat to our national security?

Yes (29%)
No (71%)
Total Votes: 7172

[riverbendviewgal]

2. oops..

We are NOT living on greed

[Newsjock]

3. Good thing our spies never saw 'An American In Canada'!

That was hilarious, and it certainly did not present the USA in the best of lights.

[applegrove]

4. My grandmother was 18 when the Soviet Revolution happened. She used to say she

wasn't afraid of the Soviet Union, .... it was THE AMERICANS we had to worry about. She was born in 1898.

I think canadians generally really like democratic americans.

[alp227]

5. Americans living near the Canadian border can see those "anti-American" Canadian shows

if you live in places like Detroit (near Windsor) or Buffalo (near Toronto) or around Lake Champlain (near Montreal) you might be able to see the Canadian networks on TV. Or if you have cable around the Great Lakes area.