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From: robinson@ubc-cs.UUCP (Jim Robinson)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: Re: Nationalization/Crown Corps.
Message-ID: <1163@ubc-cs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 15-Jul-85 00:36:59 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 15 00:36:59 1985
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Reply-To: robinson@ubc-cs.UUCP (Jim Robinson)
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Organization: UBC Department of Computer Science, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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Summary: 

In article <1252@mnetor.UUCP> sophie@mnetor.UUCP writes:
>Wait a minute there!  CBC was never meant to be a profit-making
>operation.  It is a service operation providing information, ideas,
>entertainment to people.  I personnally am very happy that they are
>losing money.  It means that they spend more time producing services
>than selling them.  

On the other hand, a lack of profit could be the sign of an organization
which has become bloated due to the fact nobody ever told them to
watch their expenditures. 

>....................................................  Given the
>cuts in CBC's budget, it is amazing that they are still managing to
>produce such high-quality programs.  

See above comment for a possible answer to this one. 

J.B. Robinson