Kayne West/Katrina

The lack of real coverage of current events is seem at it's most obscene now with Katrina. I saw all the faces of African Americans left behind on the news and I was baffled no talking heads on CTV or the US networks (I won't even bother mentioning Fox News or Global) made mention of this. It's taken till now. Till a rapper finally stated what is right in front of our faces. Not the CBC. Not Peter Mansbridge. Not George Strempelous (or however his name is spelt.


This is the shame of the CBC lock out. This is the shame of Rabinovitch.

The world should be using the CBC lens as the only honest network in North America. The only honest voice. Even CNN which has done a decent job during disaster of a disaster relief still has Wolf Blitzer saying crap like "So poor and so black". Even their acknowledgement of the racism of this disaster is racist. Yet the CBC give me more antiques. It started off as a joke but now I'm really wishing I would have learned french years ago so I could get some truth from RDI. And I'm wondering if that may be the only choice for the future.

From the Tea Makers blog it seems that management is hell bent on getting their agenda through. They have it planned out for months in advance. I suppose that plan includes pulling out more archive tapes of "This hour has 7 days" or whatever for Newsworld and more topless women ala Old School.

I'm getting the impression that the management of CBC would be quite content if the progressive voice of the "Mother Corp" would wither away and die. With the "McJobs" that is being proposed in the contract negotiations I wouldn't be surprised if they used this as a barometer to find out whose "right" for the position if you get my pun. I wouldn't be surprised if the world renouned coverage of Peter Mansbridge and The National/Journal (yep I watched the CBC as a kid and I'm still calling it that :p and while we're on that topic the great orange logo should have stayed) will end when Mr. Mansbridge retires. If you're working a McJob there really isn't the time or energy to dig deep to get to the truth. There's too much time being eaten up by trying to stay afloat in your own life.

If the bigwigs at CBC get their way I might as well follow my life long dream of working for the CBC. After all I'm allowed to work up to one shift a week on disability and I imagine that's what the new "CBC" will look like. Part timers, journeymen, people with no real devotion to the truth. At least I'll have the latter. Hell I'd apply now if I didn't have this pesky moral thing against crossing a union line. ;)

The CBC's apparent lack of interest in any sort of real news coverage during the lock out is an omen. The coming of the PBS'ing of CBC. Better get a parka Tucker Carlson. Looks like you'll be heading north.

The unedited video of West telling the truth that the workers at CBC have been gagged from telling

Like a town cryer I've posted this to every CBC lock out victim blog I saw that looked active and allowed comments. The end of the CBC could be here unless the federal government steps in soon. But perhaps that's what the "libera" Martin wants. btw - I did not mispell cryer. The most you can accuse me of is a bad pun over a bad situation in the corp.

sigh...

Watching newsworld. It appears they've cobbled together a 10 minute newscast for the 9 pm slot b4 going to BBC. Don't want to mention any names incase I got it wrong but I could have sworn atleast one of the reporters who filed something had a name I know from watching the CBC.

Originally Posted by firehawk12

God, it's been one week and I feel sad... I really miss Newsword and The National.

Originally Posted by NG
Swing low, sweet chariot, Comin' for to carry me home, Swing low, sweet chariot, CBC come on home.

Source

Watching Newsworld for a bit. Finally Canadians know the answer to "What if PBS was Canadian" The Answer: Just as boring.

I'm suprised that anybody is watching this shell of network without the people who actually made it interesting.

10 PM on Sunday. Usually I'd be watching CBC Sunday right now however the Mother Corp has on Star Wars. Guess it's Seinfeld repeats out of Buffalo.

During the Sunday night toon fest on Global (Simpsons, Family Guy et al) I saw that Global is running some very veiled knocks at the CBC with "Missing Canadian News...tune into Global National". Ugh. I assume they realize that this can be nothing more than a slag against the CBC since no CBC viewer/listener with 1/2 a brain would mistake the quality of The National/World @ 6 with the slopfest of news that Global National presents.

Who knows....perhaps they'll (finally) take this chance to become a real, impartial newscast, like the CBC that doesn't appeal only to Alliance Con voters (but I doubt it).

One week today

the CBC locked out the reporters and behild the scenes people we've come to trust for years on CBC and CBC Newsworld.

Oy the news sucks now.

Here's a round up of a quick flip of the channels when I got up one day last week:

CBC: BBC World News: The settlers being removed from the occupied areas of Isreal

CTV Canada AM: Weather

CityTV: BreakfastTV: kids reading sports

GlobalTV Morning: Anchors discussing how P. Diddy has dropped the P from his name.

Reminds me why I've stopped watching the private broadcasters for the news (however having said that CityTV is enjoyable at times)

On to today.

Being a news (CBC News) junkie I've filled the past week with lots of TV Shows on DVD to fill the CBC void however on my way to get some of the last few Fuji Made in Japan DVD spindles (they're switching to lower grade made in Taiwan) Radio One happened to be on the dial when I flipped on the engine.

Here's the weird thing. I happened to catch it at the 1 p.m. news update and there was a report filed by Adrienne Arsenault?!? Has she crossed the line? Was she never a member of a union? I'm not sure what to make of it to be honest. Perhaps I was mistaken - I was only on my third cup of coffee ;)