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| | Canadian Journal of Communication - Vol. 17, No. 3 (1992) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) |
 | | After an opening sketch of the development of broadcasting in Canada, the author embarks upon an in-depth analysis of subjects as diverse as nationalism, the market economy, dependency theory, the intellectual and his relationship to television, the television audience, and the concept of national culture. |
 | | All this scholarship is directed toward support for the underlying theme of the work, that the Canadian case ``challenges the assumption central to nationalist theory and to the media imperialism thesis, that polity and culture are strongly interdependent'' (p. |
 | | Collins demonstrates that in the Canadian case, even though the bulk of programming consumed, in English Canada in particular, is of foreign origin, the polity is relatively robust. |
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