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- Title: Politically Correct and Lovin' It
- Author : Inroads: A Journal of Opinion
- Release Date : January 22, 2008
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 49 KB
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One of my first jobs in journalism, back in the 1970s, was as researcher on CBC radio's Cross Country Checkup, the national phone-in show. Generally it was serious political stuff, but around April Fool's Day we decided to go light. In the era before the top ten list, we hit on a novel idea: plumb callers for Canada's best jokes. Because the rules governing radio required it, the program was broadcast on a seven-second delay, a safety valve to excise that which should not be broadcast. On this occasion, we used that heavy, whirling delay mechanism over and over. As the technician deftly pulled the tape so we went to dead air (the biggest no-no in radio), I kept muttering, "Another dirty joke, without the joke." It turned out that for many callers, Canada's best joke involved either a Newfoundlander or a French Canadian along with the back end of female livestock. The cynic in me says they stuck to these tried-and-true themes because there were too few visible minorities in Canada at the time, too few gays out of the closet, for jokes honed over generations to have incorporated them.