Thank you, Madam Chair.
I think we've lost a generation of news followers. In newsrooms, they don't think about what the consumer wants. Take time shifting: “We can't have the news on other than at 6:00 or 11:00.” They saw viewers coast to coast saying, “I want to watch the news when I have the time.” That's why the platforms won out. That's why websites won out. I look at the news industry. They're still back in the fifties. They haven't grasped what the consumers and eyeballs want. When I look at the news media in the United States, and even in Canada....
Mr. Speer, you made a good point about donations. Even though they're in the United States, PBS television gets thousands of dollars from Canadian viewers. Why is that? It's because we watch it. When they have a telethon, I see hundreds of people in my community donating to PBS.
Perhaps that's the model we need for public television, not only in the United States but also here in Canada, with the CBC.