Monthly Archives: May 2009

Sudbury mayor ‘pissed’ at CBC plans

Well, John Rodriguez, who wouldn’t be? “ â€˜We’re even having people from the private broadcast industry come up to us and say, “If you guys don’t do it, where will we get our news?” ‘ â€

Looking ahead to May

May 1, 2009 – It’s been a pretty interesting week (understatement!), so I thought I’d drop you a quick line. CBC/Radio-Canada had two important appearances this week: mine before the Heritage Committee on Monday and another by Steven Guiton, Richard Stursberg, Sylvain Lafrance, Louis Lalande, François Conway and Bev Kirshenblatt before the CRTC on Wednesday. […]

Don Newman! Retiring!

Voluntarily!

‘In Lausanne this year, the Rose d’Or Awards are devoting an entire day to celebrating the CBC’

That’s quite the accolade! The Tea Makers thanks Richard Stursberg for bringing us this news. Stursberg also claims “CBC TV’s never been better”: Ah, say our critics, we’re not “distinctive” because CBC shows are made within the same narrative and format conventions as many U.S. television shows. They argue that the Canadian privates could make […]

Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster. And when you gaze long into the tweethole, the tweethole also gazes into you

Social Media Professionals and Nietzsche will tell you that you only get out of social media what you put into it. So it goes without saying that when you make fun of the twitter people, sooner or later you become that which you made fun of. “That site,” my friends, is this site. And noizangel […]

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