altruism is a thing of the past?

[Howard Beye]

wow folks Gaetan struck a nerve, i worked as a studio potter in a
workshop ten feet wide and twenty feet long all by myself  ten miles
outside of Creston BC Canada for five years. I would listen to CBC all
day long and found that i really connected with Canada. The CBC for any
of its faults had as its primary mandate to reflect Canada back to
itself, good bad or ugly. Well  you know the story government
money....lean mean times..... etc etc...i guess your right Guillermo the
drive for the dollar is understandable acceptable and forgivable. I
didn't realize how tough it is to be Conrad Black.
    Now i am aspiring to a career in theatre and i am told that i should
perhaps put aside my idealism.... granted i haven't yet been in the real
world of the theatre....but i have been in the real world working for
years. Yes i will take the paycheck of Phantom if it were available but
what i want to do is theatre that challenges, enlivens, disputes,
contradicts, complains, explains, destabalizes, attracts, and causes
heart attacks. But how am i to go out with, as Chaucer put it in the
cantebury tales, `Stout heart and full devout courage' if i have to
accept as a role model, a company holding itself up as a national voice
that can not and will not be held accountable for its hypocrisy
because........In these lean and mean times, newspapers can no longer
afford such altruism.......bullshit...... if the Globe and Mail or the
new National Post want to advertise themselves as National Newspapers
then they should shit or get of the pot.
Howard