The sudden
cancellation of Backtalk with Pete Soucy, one of VOCM’s much-heralded talk show
hosts, represents a significant loss to the public affairs arena of this
province.
At first one
might think that the axing of the popular writer, actor, comedian, and teacher should
be treated as just another change in the minutiae of operating a radio station,
and that cancellation of one of three shows is not a matter for those outside
of corporate media to bother their little heads over.
But that is
not the case.
Underscoring
this decision by Steele Communications, the radio station’s owner, is the huge void that exists in a province bereft of public affairs analysis. After all, VOCM does news as
poorly as the other media.
