For most of us you are either for or against CBC but it doesn’t matter what you think of the CBC, you can’t pretend to think this qualifies as journalism by the London Free Press. CBC bureaucrats, production people, and journalists are feeling a little cramped in their 23-storey broadcast palace in Montreal. Earlier this [...]
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What’s Wrong with Television Journalism
Wow, what a post by Kai Nagata Aside from feeling sexually attracted to the people on screen, the target viewer, according to consultants, is also supposed to like easy stories that reinforce beliefs they already hold. This is where the public broadcaster is caught in a tough spot. CBC Television, post-Stursberg, is failing in two [...]
My political worldview
Economically (apparently I prefer deficits) and on defence spending I agree with the Conservatives but on Senate Reform, Quebec, and Moral Values, I am with the Liberals. It’s kind of a fun survey but I realized that locally I find myself politically at odds with four of the city councillors at the left end of [...]
Where have I seen this photo before the Toronto Star used it tonight?
I was on David Olive’s excellent blog tonight, the Great Recession and I was reading that Saskatchewan was celebrating our entry into Confederation today. We joined it back in 1905 and have won three Grey Cups in our time as a province. I was noticing the great looking photo of the Saskatchewan Legislative Building. You [...]
Now on Twitter
The last couple of days I have been having a running discussion with Karen over at The Hedge Society on Twitter about why Apartment Therapy doesn’t use Twitter. Several of my favorite design sites all use Twitter and I follow many of them over at The Cooper Cabin. During our discussion made me realize that [...]
Public Broadcaster = Public Parking
Inside the CBC has a wonderful post showing a CBC van parked illegally in a fire lane. While the photos are kind of funny, it’s the sense of entitlement in the comments that are worth reading. It also reveals that our tax dollars get spent on paying CBC staff parking tickets. I don’t know about [...]
Live coverage from your living room
CBC’s live coverage and play by play of the Olympics will be done from Toronto. It’s this: A good number of the on-air people covering the Games for the CBC, TSN, NBC, BBC and other international broadcasters will not be in Beijing or anywhere near the Olympic city. They will call events off a monitor [...]
