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● The real reason for your
email.
● Super polite restatement of
your request
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would like you to take [?].
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COMS 201: Introduction to
Communication and Media Studies

January 14
CBC Mandate
- national public broadcaster,

- predominantly and distinctively

- Ownership
Canadian
- Language (English/French)
- Reflect canada and its regions
- safeguard/development/
- flow and exchange of cultural
employment
expression,
- expression of differing views
- national consciousness and identity,
- reflect multicultural nature
- reflect the multicultural and

multiracial nature of Canada

Source - https://cbc.radio-canada.ca/en/vision/governance/programming-policies/
programming-mandate
CRTC-
- Created 1976
- regulating telecommunication
carriers

Functions-
- Licensing
- Promoting compliance with
regulations
- Making ownership decisions
- Approving tariffs
- Encouraging competition
- Providing information
 What is capitalism?

Cartoon Source - https://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/a/anti_capitalism.asp

Capitalism is an economic system, or a system for the production,
distribution, and consumption of goods and services.

What makes an economy a capitalist economy:

- Production for profit

- Wage labour (Jim Stanford, 2008: 34–5)
Competition Innovation Growth Inequality Conflict
Privatization of University of Calgary bookstore

- Increase in textbook prices

- Student employment
opportunities
- worsening of student customer
service
Public sphere

The “public sphere” is generally conceived as the social space in which different opinions are expressed,
problems of general concern are discussed, and collective solutions are developed communicatively.

“Political activity takes place in the public

sphere” (Habermas, 1989)