If you’ve been reading all the comments at The National Post, the Star and elsewhere slamming the CBC for alleged anti-military, anti-Canadian Forces coverage (of course these people never watch CBC, so how would they know?), well here is what Fox News, the favourite network for the neo-Cons, including probably most of the Conservative Party, […]
Monthly Archives: March 2009
Come the revolution, we don’t know WTF is going to happen
March 22, 2009 – 3:29 pm
As we continue to debate and wonder what future there is, if any, at the CBC, there is a much more important post than Robert Fulford’s emeritus musing. Posted on his blog March 13 by Clay Shirky, an adjunct professor in NYU’s graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program and net expert since the 1990s, it “went viral†[…]
Bonus culture can lead to resentment
March 22, 2009 – 2:40 pm
“Civil servants now expect big bonuses if they meet their targets, and if they don’t, bonuses to encourage them to try harder,” “These bonuses are not linked in any tangible way to any dimensions of performance – in fact, just the opposite.” “I think it’s actually a way of fudging the books in terms of […]
A Fulford Fix
March 22, 2009 – 12:26 pm
Having just turned 77, Robert Fulford is so behind the times, he still has an email address at the U of T.But you’d be hard pressed to find a more rational view of the CBC these days than his recent blog Post.Here it is in full, because you won’t want to miss a word.And here’s […]
Shorter Kirstine Layfield
March 22, 2009 – 6:39 am
The BBC, the CBC, and the Privates are all pretty much the same. This fails to explain why CBC Television looks so much like the Life Network.
More work for Vince Carlin
March 21, 2009 – 5:30 pm
Another government official wants to tell CBC reporters how to do their job, because “Canadians have a higher level of compassion” than Americans.
Parsimonious Punditry
March 20, 2009 – 10:36 pm
Only one of the four people here knows exactly what’s wrong with the CBC.And he’s not talking.
Most Prolonged Cringe-Inducing TV Moment of 2009
March 20, 2009 – 3:50 pm
Yes, there’s still 9 months to go but could anything possibly top this show? Still not clear why Trebek was flown up for this or what currency he was paid in.Bullard would have been way better.
Not quite sporno
March 20, 2009 – 12:41 pm
The Other Solitude runs a parody sports site and podcast, le Sportnographe.
Where innovation goes to die
March 20, 2009 – 11:27 am
It’s a well known fact that on any given moment there are at least 3 Technology Conferences or Unconferences going on in Toronto at once. These are places for underemployed nerds and “Social Media Experts” to gather and discuss the future. This future usually involves their services. They must, at all cost, be Twittered. This […]
If the CBC is Canada’s eyes & ears, what are CTV and Global?
March 20, 2009 – 11:05 am
Curt Petrovich defends the CBC.Will his essay win him a trip to Ottawa?
Providence protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America. How do we go about getting the CBC signed up for this?
March 20, 2009 – 7:26 am
Have you read Jeffrey Dvorkin’s essay in yesterday’s Globe? You should. A former managing editor of CBC Radio, and ombudsman at NPR, Dvorkin, floats the idea that CBC consider abandoning commercial advertising in favour of direct audience financial support. That’s right… the dreaded funding drives. While I’m not confidant that this approach would fly in […]
Gamma Ray Scanning?
March 20, 2009 – 7:03 am
From: Andrew ByerlaySubject: Preparation for Ground Floor Drilling Preparation for Ground Floor Drilling In the early hours of Tuesday, March 24, the post for the access card reader that operates the mobility access door at the Front Street gates will be relocated to a better position. This operation will involve gamma ray scanning underneath the […]
Droit de seigneur
March 20, 2009 – 6:51 am
In the Middle Ages, it is said that the lord of the manor had “Droit de seigneur” described by Wikipedia as a term now popularly used to describe an alleged legal right allowing the lord of an estate to take the virginity of the estate’s virgins. (Wikipedia now says scholars are disputing whether that right […]
