The title of the Save the CBC petition might sound a little alarmist—it’s not at risk of disappearing à la GM or Chrysler—but it’s not hard to extrapolate an eventual result from the actions (and inactions) of the party that’s currently in control of the purse strings. So go sign it already. Among other things,…
In the last few weeks, several CBC podcasts have regularly been truncated in mid-interview or mid-sentence. For example, the As It Happens podcast is one which has been running short: yesterday’s “Best of”, which usually runs near 45 minutes, was cut off just after the 15-minute mark (ironically in a story about amputation). The worst…
For those who read Planet CBC, there have been a few recent changes. After adding a number of Flickr feeds several months ago, I’ve pulled the lot of them. I’ve also added three blogs—Blake Crosby’s, Jesse Hirsh’s, and Emm Gryner’s—and removed one: The Tea Makers is gone, now that it’s being run by a non-CBC…
A couple of weeks ago I received an email out of the blue from Emerald Austerberry, a journalism student at Ryerson University. She was working on a story about blogs and journalism, specifically about the recently-released and much-discussed CBC blogging policy guidelines for Self-publishing and self-expression on the Internet. I told her I’d be willing…
As friends, relatives, casual passersby and, most recently, Fringers (I was the guy in the ’70s-logo CBC hat and T-shirt) know, I’m an avid fan of the CBC. My parents originally turned me on to CBC Radio back in the days of Basic Black, Jack Parr, the last few years of Max Ferguson’s shows, and…
News programming used to be a social commitment. Stories would reflect the community and its values, not unlike a politician elected to represent the ideals of his or her voters. A TV station’s identity was forged largely through the faces, attitudes and responsibilities of its news division. Now, the overriding concern of every TV program…
The real error in the quiz has been fixed, so I’ve removed the style that required people to swipe over the hidden answer. Thanks, CBC.ca editors!There are two more spelling, grammatical, typographical and careless errors in CBC.ca’s You be the editor quiz than the answers indicate. Ironically, one is in the entry that’s purported to…
The CBC’s new WordPress-powered official weblog. Neat. There are several articles cross-posted (actually, copied… annoying if you read both via their feeds, because the articles don’t share an ID and thus appear twice in aggregators) from honcho Tod Maffin’s iloveradio.org weblog so far, but a good selection of original stuff too. There’s also a status…
…when you read the headline Da Vinci movie will open Cannes and think they made a movie of Da Vinci’s City Hall?!
Jim Harris, leader of the Green Party, was on CBC’s The National last night in one of their interactive Your Turn segments. Before I watched all I really knew was that the Greens are focused on the environment… and afterwards, that’s still all I know about their platform. I’ll give this to Harris, though: he’s…