NOTE TO STAFF – Management Changes at CBC News

By the desk of Jennifer McGuire

It’s now been about five months since we launched our new programming under CBC News Renewal. First of all, I want to thank you all for your commitment and hard work as we continue to build our new programs, structures and processes. We’ve enjoyed some significant successes and despite the inevitable bumps along the road, I’m confident we are well advanced in building the kind of integrated, round the clock news organization that our audiences expect. Our strategy is working and remains in place.

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Posted by the desk of Jennifer McGuire on March 11, 2010 2:23 pm and tagged as , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
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CBC News managers get new job descriptions

By Anonymous

As reported by (and to) CBC News:

CBC News says it has made organizational changes meant to improve operations as part of an ongoing news renewal process.

I mean really now, shouldn’t CBC News be reporting on something else besides this? Is the Canadian public dying to know that “Heaton Dyer, formerly senior director of strategy and innovation, becomes executive director for programming strategy and innovation.”

But if you’re going to report it, how about some actual reporting? Namely, what every Canadian reading this is asking themselves: “does this involve a change in pay?” And secondly, how does changing Heaton’s title “improve operations?”

And what is he doing, anyway?

Are there any journalists left in the CBC? Or are they all too busy emptying their own wastebaskets to do any reporting?

Posted by Anonymous on March 10, 2010 1:00 pm and tagged as , , , , , ,
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The Hour’s propaganda

By Allan
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Ryerson Review of Journalism, 2005:

Jennifer Dettman, executive producer, helped create the show’s concept by targeting audiences with Stroumbo’s youthful personality. “I suppose that’s cool,” says Stroumbo, “because for the longest time, getting people under the age of 15 engaged on a Newsworld program was rare.” Doyle, on the other hand, argues that no program on television should be so outlandish and different that it alienates a portion of the viewers by age group. But Stroumbo denies that the show is doing that. “People say the show is aimed at getting younger viewers,” he says. “But if it were, why would I interview a holocaust survivor?”

“In the meantime, Stroumbo sticks to advice he learned early in his career from Canadian radio guru Bob Mackowycz: Never talk down to your audience, and fuck ‘em if they don’t get it.”

Posted by Allan on March 9, 2010 4:29 pm and tagged as , , ,
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Elect The CBC

By Allan

If Mesley, Mansbridge and the whole lot of them are so gung ho on public broadcasting, why don’t they quit and run for Federal office?
Nothing could be easier or more effective to bolster funding for the CBC.
It’s a given that celebrities are easily elected. People assume they know them almost personally. All that’s necessary for the celebs to do is give a few speeches like they’re going to take the job seriously.
A few months of campaigning and it’s the gravy train for four years.
Any one of them – Jian, George, Andy Barie,Brent, Quarks guy, all of the recognizable faces of the CBC could quickly hold office in Ottawa if they chose to go for it.
Jian already has the glimmer in his eye, wondering how far he can take his ambitions as a political cardboard cut-out of someone who stands for … something. He’ll wing it using his well practised “has an answer for everything” gift of conversation.
Ian Hanamanshing could realistically become the Premiere of British Columbia.

Look at Peter Kent.
What does he know?
And why should only CTV people like Duffy and Wallin get into the Senate? Where’s Patrick Watson? Not savvy enough to rate? In truth, probably more so than anyone else.
Why doesn’t the CBC just take over the country, and put an end to getting its butt kicked all the time for being “lefties”?
Rise up, CBC.
Rise up.

Posted by Allan on March 8, 2010 10:00 pm and tagged as , ,
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Likes Tall Blondes

By Allan

In the corner with George Stroumboulopoulos at the lead-up to the Haiti Relief Telethon.

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Nosey camera guy interrupts George’s attempt to fly the friendly skies

Posted by Allan on March 8, 2010 1:19 am and tagged as ,
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The CBC, Jian Ghomeshi, and Wikipedia’s ‘conflict of interest’

By Allan

If you’re eager to learn more about the many accomplishments of Jian Ghomeshi and the high regard in which he holds himself, there are three presumably reliable places to go.
There’s the CBC page of his biography.
There’s Jian’s own home page.
And there’s good old Wikipedia.

And if you do go to each of these three pages, you’ll find them to be a very quick read.
That’s because the bio’s are identical on each page.
It means that the bio prepared by the CBC which is used for marketing and public relations (some might wish to say propaganda) is the same one that appears, word for word, on the Wikipedia entry for Jian.

Where advancing outside interests is more important to an editor than advancing the aims of Wikipedia, that editor stands in a conflict of interest.
A Wikipedia conflict of interest (COI) is an incompatibility between the aim of Wikipedia, which is to produce a neutral, reliably sourced encyclopedia, and the aims of an individual editor.
COI editing involves contributing to Wikipedia in order to promote your own interests or those of other individuals, companies, or groups. Where advancing outside interests is more important to an editor than advancing the aims of Wikipedia, that editor stands in a conflict of interest.

~ WIKIPEDIA

This begs a few simple questions.
Can you trust a Wikipedia entry that’s written by the individual’s employer and their promotions department?
Can you subsequently trust that employer or that individual?

Wikipedia’s entry for Jian is the most extensive, given as it is to repeating the same thing twice:

- “He is also a writer whose editorials and opinion pieces have been published in The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, and The International Herald Tribune.”
- “Ghomeshi’s opinion pieces have been published in the Sunday Washington Post, The National Post, The International Herald Tribune.”

But for anyone interested in reading the editorials that Jian wrote for The Guadian, The Washington Post or  The International Herald Tribune, they’re going to find these very difficult to locate.
We can only hope that Jian will be more helpful with his citations in future updates.

Posted by Allan on March 7, 2010 7:10 am and tagged as , , ,
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