{"id":2681,"date":"2010-06-17T08:38:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T12:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2681"},"modified":"2010-06-17T08:38:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T12:38:00","slug":"the-same-could-be-said-about-ed-stelmachs-cabinet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2681","title":{"rendered":"The same could be said about Ed Stelmach&#8217;s cabinet"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/calgary\/story\/2010\/06\/16\/calgary-blackett-banff-television-comments-backlash.html#ixzz0r4fChN3P\"><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">Canadian TV &#8216;crap&#8217;: Alberta culture minister<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><\/p>\n<p>Alberta Culture Minister Lindsay Blackett was backpedalling Wednesday after his disparaging comments about the quality of Canadian television sparked an outcry.<\/p>\n<p>Blackett was listening to a panel discussion at the Banff World Television Festival on Monday when he made the remarks in a question and answer session.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I sit here as a government representative for film and television in the province of Alberta and I look at what we produce, and if we&#8217;re honest with ourselves \u2026 I look at it and say, &#8216;Why do I produce so much shit? Why do I fund so much crap?'&#8221;<\/strong> Blackett told the panel, to ripples of laughter.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian TV &#8216;crap&#8217;: Alberta culture minister Alberta Culture Minister Lindsay Blackett was backpedalling Wednesday after his disparaging comments about the quality of Canadian television sparked an outcry. Blackett was listening to a panel discussion at the Banff World Television Festival on Monday when he made the remarks in a question and answer session. &#8220;I sit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}