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The minister kept referring to a 48-hour window for this dispute
to end. That's his number, but not one either side had mentioned or
agreed to. Neither side has budged yet on the issue of contract workers. [Via CBC Unplugged .com] . .< 8:36:27 PM  >CBC 110: How the mighty (CBC.ca) have fallen A web feed monitoring service called PubSub today launched a new list that says it measures the top 1000 "most influental websites" in the world. CBC.ca does not appear anywhere in that top 1000. How the mighty have fallen. The top 1000 ranking is based on numbers for the past 30 days and it counts mentions on RSS feeds. So it is one public measure of how CBC.ca is doing during the lockout. [Via The Garret Tree] Interesting review of this new tool. . .< 8:36:23 PM >"Here I come to save the day!" I think everyone knows that the CBC/Radio-Canada Board of Directors are patronage appointments. By that I mean someone owed these guys a favour so they got on the BoD.
I mean, Rai Sahi is on it. He’s the CBC’s landlord in Ottawa and Paul Martin’s close friend. This is kind of embarrassing. What could he possibly have to add to CBC board meetings? Tell us when garbage day is? [Via The Tea Makers] Also gives us some potential insight into the disaster that is the Ottawa CBC building. . .< 8:36:17 PM >Love Hurts-From CBC Radio’s Nancy Westaway, in th... Love Hurts From CBC Radio’s Nancy Westaway, in the Toronto Star (registration required): The lockout has served one interesting purpose — CBC's dirty little secret is now in the open. I have been astounded by the similarity in the stories of workers like me who have been strung along. It's like the woman who arrives at the hospital to visit her ailing spouse and finds a bunch of other women there, too. We were all given the same song and dance by the same Don Juan. I've been dumbfounded to learn the exact empty promises were spoken by different managers in different parts of the country, as if they all read the same book on courting casuals. Right on sister! Damn you CBC and your smooth talking ways! For the record: Size does matter (particularly when it comes to programming budgets). No, it doesn’t happen to everyone (certainly not at the BBC, NYT, hell, even at CTV). And I was faking it (especially in that power point presentation when you outlined the PARC ‘vision’ and had the gall to insinuate to the seasoned journalists in the room that telling relevant stories to Canadians was your brilliant, newfound idea that would save us all). [Via I've Been Locked Out!] . .< 8:35:36 PM >Edmonton Journal: "What should our contract with CBC be?" Edmonton Journal: "What should our contract with CBC be?" "Those of us who have attempted to watch CNN, Fox News and the big three American network news broadcasts, looking for serious coverage of, well, anything, sure have seen a lot of BIG SPLASHY ICONS and ENDLESS YAP ABOUT RESCUED PETS and DRUG ADS. Local CBC broadcasters like Erik Denison worry that contract journalists might be unwilling to fight for difficult and controversial stories, lest they upset bosses who want to see more pet yap on The National." [Via CBC Unplugged .com] |
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