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From: Paul V. Connelly connelly@web.net To: <procedure@crtc.gc.ca> Cc:srtv@srtv.on.ca Subject: Application (199812524) by JAN PACHUL Date: Saturday, October 16, 1999 3:20 PM 1. I am writing to support Application (199812524) by JAN PACHUL for a broadcasting licence to carry on an English-language low power television programming undertaking at Toronto. 2. I support the idea that it is very important to create a "sense of place" especially for people who do not see their own reality reflected in the dominant, mainstream media. For most of us, what we see on mainstream TV is not the norm for our lives, so there is generated widespead confusion about what is normal or acceptable. This confusion tends to make certain ideas, which actually may be an appropriate reflection of an existing local reality, somehow seem "weird", illegitimate or even not worthy of discussion. The homogeneous nature of the vision of the world that is played back through the mainstream media thus contributes to the narrowing and atrophying of public discourse and eventually impairs people's ability to exercize fully their right to participate in the political and cultural life of our society. I support the application in that it attempts to combat this homogenization by allowing the people to be served by the propsed TV programming in the East End of Toronto to participate in the creation and sharing of a sense of their own place as a legitimate part of the wider social fabric. 3. Please ignore my earlier communication on this issue. I failed to change the numbering of the paragraphs while composing and editing my communication to you. 4. I am also sending this message by fax to the Secretary General of the Commission (CRTC, Ottawa, K1A 0N2), at the number (819) 994-0218. ***End of document*** |