I’ve been carefully avoiding writing anything about the whole CBC connundrum, primarily because it’s such a huge situation and would entail a lot of work to put together a blog entry (links, photos, etc.) that has been done so much better by many other people. Just amassing a pile of links would be one approach, but I have a big mouth (with tippy-typy fingers attached) and could never hope to keep my opinions out of it. So I’ll keep it brief, because the corporate boneheads at CBC seem to be on the verge of letting the good folks who bring me my daily news get back to work. I am less than impressed that CBC has done all of the following:
- locked its employees out five times in five years
- subscribed to an Americanised way of organising their business, complete with melodramatic television and ads on their webpage. CBC is Canadian public television and that is why people watch it. Pick one thing you do well and do it better, already!
- made themselves out to be a reasonable coporation and portrayed whacking ordinary people (their employees) across the back of the head as a necessity for running a business. In case you hadn’t noticed, guys, my tax dollars help to pay for your “business”.
- it’s redundant, but I really, really hate the ads on the webpage. Even adblocker only gets some of them. There is something wrong with our public news broadcaster appearing to pollute the quality of the enws they provide with ads that may, in fact, contradict the words of the reporter on the same display.
So enough on the CBC. I haven’t bothered with listening to the radio since I heard one of the announcers refer to the far east as being Nunavut. I might turn it back on again late next week. As for television….. who’s broadcasting the Olympics this year coming? Not CBC, is it?
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