Denise LaFrance’s painting of Ernie Coombs, Casey, Finnegan
Monthly Archives: October 2009
‘Trust me, I’m a journalist’
October 23, 2009 – 12:16 pm
Twitter rewards those who are echoed, copied, and retweeted with fame, peer approval, and a cold kind of love. Who wouldn’t want some of that sweet action?
BREAKING: Classic ‘exploding pizza’ CBC logo appropriated by scarf-making Italians
October 23, 2009 – 9:37 am
The latest development in foreigners stealing CBC history comes from Helen Spitzer, who confirms that Oliva Rosselli of Rome is the culprit this time. Someone alert CBC Media Relations director Marco Dubé so we can have two people with cool made-up-sounding names involved in this story, to offset this “Helen Spitzer” we have here.
CBCNN onscreen graphics now hung like a horse
October 22, 2009 – 10:36 pm
CBCNN’s new font is Stag
A new moniker for Newsworld. Minus content in the title
October 22, 2009 – 2:11 pm
Didn’t Anne-Marie Mediwake leave Global “to spend more time with her family�
Liveblogging apologia
October 22, 2009 – 1:08 pm
Why yesterday’s news spectacular wasn’t liveblogged
Paul Mcgrath’s high standards
October 22, 2009 – 12:42 am
“Hollywood Reporter: CBC rebrands CBS Newsworld,†says Paul Mcgrath
FarLeft
October 21, 2009 – 5:24 pm
‘I don’t care what the CBC “doesn’t know about a story.†For crissake, make sure your reporting is accurate. Be responsible yourselves for your reporting! Don’t shirk your journalistic responsibilities by shifting the choices to the viewers!’
The last generation of CBC News
October 21, 2009 – 5:08 pm
‘I want to mock you again for your half-assed work and lacklustre commitment. I know that each one of your skills and talents will be wasted in news content that is built on a foundation of conformity, passivity, and commitment to abandon a standard of journalism faster than anyone else in this country’
