Here’s something for CBC employees—freelancers, temporary, part-time, full-time, and management alike—to think about, particularly those few (anonymous, naturally) that need to get some serious anger-management therapy, and soon:
Fighting a war is easy. Destroying is easy. Building a new world out of what’s left of the old, that is what’s hard.
The people I’ve talked to on the line here in London understand this, and I know there are a lot of others in the corporation that do too: just read their weblogs. They understand the purpose of public broadcasting, and they know it needs to be strong in the face of opposition so that all Canadian voices continue to be heard by all other Canadians.
The vocal minority mentioned above, however, seem bent on destroying this communication by razing the organization they purport to defend. They’re a sect of fervent, crazed individuals who twist the meaning of the union and the CBC as a whole with every word; in another situation, these people are the ones who would become suicide bombers.
