Evan gets his dream job – Don’s
Monthly Archives: July 2009
And though you fight to stay alive, your body starts to shiver. For no mere mortal can resist the evil of the Twitter
July 10, 2009 – 12:15 am
For indeed it is another journey down the Tweethole. @petermansbridg, is that you?
‘CBC cameras don’t stay on the prime minister long enough sometimes’
July 9, 2009 – 11:26 am
What does Dimitri Soudas think of “CBC cameras�
Next Sensation: Jailhouse Rock
July 8, 2009 – 9:44 pm
Allan walks a mile in Eddie Greenspan’s sandals
The Tea Makers shutters print, broadcast divisions, goes online-only
July 7, 2009 – 6:08 pm
Old Farmers’ Tea Makers now available in stylus, Etch-a-Sketch, Lite-Brite, Kindle
Nothing actually funny up for Canadian Comedy Awards
July 7, 2009 – 11:25 am
CBC contingent? Gumtoothed news parodies. Oh, that’s right – it’s all we’ve got. (Plus the Halifax Comedy Fest, but all that takes is aiming a camera at somebody else’s work.)
‘RRJ’: Student hit job?
July 7, 2009 – 10:46 am
The Spring ’09 Ryerson Review of Journalism (launch photos) runs a piece that essentially enables every competitor of CBC.CA to whine about its unfair advantage. Globe apparatchik: “I don’t think that you could possibly argue that they don’t have an unfair advantage.†(Billinger: “We do everything better.â€)
MAX(imum) HEAD ROOM
July 2, 2009 – 5:02 pm
He’s funny, cheerful, confident.He can read a teleprompter better than the average bear. And it takes only four people to write every word that comes out of his mouth.
Seven percentage points
July 2, 2009 – 11:25 am
Inside the CBC gripes that Friends of Canadian Broadcasting may have overstated CBC’s AmeriCon by seven percentage points. (It’s 18% when it’s not 25%!) Nobody seems to have noticed that the list of American movies in Friends’ press release covers a viewing period ten times longer than the study data it cites.
Three for three bucks not quite the deal it was cracked up to be
July 1, 2009 – 2:57 pm
It seems Jim Shaw was just pulling Ivan Fecan’s leg all along. Oh, and “who watch Channel Zero?†Hamilton and Montreal watch Channel Zero. (News all day!)
