It was a Town Hall segment

Posted on October 27, 2004 by Bene Diction

I have to tell Dispatches from Outland something and the rest of you are very welcome to listen in.

It started with this post.
Once again the real action was in the comment section.

CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) did go to Pennsylvania, and there was a live town hall meeting with US citizens.
Questions to US voters were taped across Canada, and who ever wanted to answered in the audience. Meantime Rex Murphy tried to handle the emails coming into the CBC.

The most predictable email was from Atlanta Georgia going on about influencing voters. I didn’t catch the full town hall segment, but I don’t think that is what happened at all. Peter Mansbridge had to explain what a loonie was to his US audience, but other than that, most people knew what page they were on.

I would have liked to have seen the CBC go further south or further west.

I think we do others a great dis-service when we assume that interest is coercion. We are so used to bad news, it doesn’t hurt to be reminded that people can sit down and talk in front of cameras without turning into talking head-spitting tack-adversaries.

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Have courage for the great sorrows, And patience for the small ones. And when you have laboriously accomplished your tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
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3 Responses to It was a Town Hall segment

  1. Roy Jacobsen says:
    October 27, 2004 at 9:55 am

    Bene,
    Thanks for the update.

    One observation about this event that I think applies to life in general: Anytime you get people involved, it’s a safe bet somebody will behave inappropriately.

  2. Bene Diction says:
    October 27, 2004 at 11:22 am

    Just on the US side…no tape delay;^)

  3. Roy Jacobsen says:
    October 27, 2004 at 3:40 pm

    Now was that appropriate?

    :-D