{"id":24,"date":"2008-09-09T08:35:24","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T13:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/election08.cusjc.ca\/?p=24"},"modified":"2008-09-09T10:57:20","modified_gmt":"2008-09-09T15:57:20","slug":"well-at-least-we-won%e2%80%99t-have-to-watch-law-and-order-re-runs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"Well, at least we won\u2019t have to watch Law and Order re-runs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>Paul Adams<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Elizabeth May is out\u2026wow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Unnoticed in the hoo-ha, however, was the fact that the consortium of broadcasters who control the debates scheduled the English-language outing for October 2, the same night as the vice-presidential debate in the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">So the Canadian people won\u2019t be subjected to re-runs that night after all! And the networks won\u2019t take a revenue-hit on the American shows they simulcast. I suppose you could say this is in the interest of all Canadians, couldn\u2019t you? Hmmmm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Time for a national debate commission, with clear rules and the public interest as its mandate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>A former political journalist with CBC and the Globe and Mail, Paul Adams is a member of Carleton\u2019s journalism faculty and executive director of EKOS Research Associates.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Adams Elizabeth May is out\u2026wow. Unnoticed in the hoo-ha, however, was the fact that the consortium of broadcasters who control the debates scheduled the English-language outing for October 2, the same night as the vice-presidential debate in the United States. So the Canadian people won\u2019t be subjected to re-runs that night after all! And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election2008","category-election-2008-media-commentary","tag-add-new-tag"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46,"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}