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.

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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 ;)