Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Can you do the CanCon?

Hello HSMUN 2011 Delegates!

As you may have heard before, in a lot of countries there exists a content quota for radio and television broadcasters. In Canada, for example, it is required that all channels must air a certain percentage of content that was at least partly written, produced, presented, or otherwise contributed to by persons from Canada.

Similar rules are found across the world- in the Philippines, Mexico, Nigeria, France, Israel,Ireland, South Africa, Jamaica, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand.

Obviously, rules and regulations like this exist to protect and prolong culture. Do you think these means are effective? Are citizens generally influenced by these rules at all, or has media made access to a multitude of outlets so easy that regulations like the aforementioned are ineffective? What are some similar rules/laws exist in your delegation that follow the same mandate?

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