They offered me the office, offered me the shop. They said I'd better take anything they'd got. Do you wanna make tea at the CBC? Do you wanna be, do you really wanna be a cop?
They don’t know what Al-Jazeera is? (No wonder, seeing our pusillanimous cable companies) or that it is staff with a bunch of American and British ex-pats, often from India or the Gulf who do understand context which is more than white-bread CBC does.
Perhaps they’re sun-stroked. They’re certainly rudderless without Tony Burman’s leadership. How is anyone supposed to know what to do? Only Al-jazerra would have the courage to display feedback, on the viewers own terms. And to do it frequently. That’s clearly a genuine and respectful and mature direction to go if you want to claim to serve the public. Just by taking that public seriously.
The response was so creative. Does the CBC have an agenda?
"this still makes me really really angry. all the blah blah about diversity, serving communities, cancon playlists and all that..." by Anonymous on August 11, 2010 8:22 pm
"A year ago – Aug. 10th, from torontomike.com “George had called to discuss his independent FM … With regards to..." by Allan on August 11, 2010 7:18 pm
"Do you need a pacifier and a blankie Mr. I can’t take a joke because I’m so, so, so offended ?" by PoonGirl on August 11, 2010 6:20 pm
"FYI, any instance of a Downfall meme is considered pre-Godwinned. This was a particularly good example though, especially the..." by Kev on August 11, 2010 11:27 am
"I agree, Hitler jokes are offensive. He was evil and wrong, as are the words that Ouimet has put in his mouth in the..." by Mary Soderstrom on August 11, 2010 10:41 am
"Thank you for reading. The post is a bit long and even a bit strange. This is a reaction to spending a couple hours watching Jian..." by Allan on August 11, 2010 5:58 pm
"This is a long opinion piece, and given how it keeps hammering away at certain points, it starts to come across as a..." by Dave in Vancouver on August 11, 2010 5:32 pm
"Hey Jian! Would you mind not laughing at the Filipino slum people while Lights is filming herself trying to look sad!" by ^^^^^^^^ on August 11, 2010 11:55 am
"Is this guy Jian? He seems to be enjoying himself a little too much during what’s supposed to be a sombre photo op for..." by Yuk Yuks on August 11, 2010 11:45 am
"If you pause the video at the 3 second mark, you can see Lite’s personal photographer. Yeah, she’s not doing this..." by Photo Op on August 11, 2010 11:11 am
"Maybe he’s holding the camera?" by Anonymous on August 11, 2010 10:58 am
"Seriously, why wasn’t Jian in that video? He claims to be over there with Lits helping poor..." by Where's Wonderboy? on August 11, 2010 10:53 am
"I would love to see Lights/Jian go all Brangelina and start adopting some of these poor Filipino kids!" by Anonymous on August 11, 2010 10:25 am
"If Jian & Lites donated even a fraction of the hundreds of thousands of Radio Starmaker Fund money that they waste..." by Jet-Setter Jian on August 11, 2010 10:20 am
Why has no one picked up on this?
They don’t know what Al-Jazeera is?
(No wonder, seeing our pusillanimous cable companies) or that it is staff with a bunch of American and British ex-pats, often from India or the Gulf who do understand context which is more than white-bread CBC does.
Perhaps they’re sun-stroked.
They’re certainly rudderless without Tony Burman’s leadership.
How is anyone supposed to know what to do?
Only Al-jazerra would have the courage to display feedback, on the viewers own terms. And to do it frequently.
That’s clearly a genuine and respectful and mature direction to go if you want to claim to serve the public.
Just by taking that public seriously.
The response was so creative.
Does the CBC have an agenda?
And how is Patrick Watson these days?