Unesco is expected to approve a resolution that would protect nations' rights to subsidize domestic film production and restrict foreign television and radio content. The US, with the sole support of Israel, unsuccessfully proposed some twenty-seven amendments to cripple the measure, which is broadly seen as a blow against US cultural imperialism.
Canada, who together with France first raised the initiative, has long had in effect its Cancon rules, which dictate the total percentage of radio and television broadcast time that must be dedicated to "Canadian content". According to at least one Canadian I've spoken to, this translates into the maddening repetition of Avril Lavigne, Shania Twain, and that Titanic woman with the freakishly long neck ...
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