You’d think SooToday.com could have found a better photo to represent the modern CBC listener for this news release. From this century would have been good enough.
Sure, a lot of old people listen to CBC Radio, but they are still mostly in color.
Rally to save CBC North comes 50 years too late for audience
Published April 4, 2009 4:40 pm
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Getting to the Ontario communities in question, it’s understood that they’ve become increasingly cranky at this particular news, yes? I’ve read items from Brantford, Sudbury and Guelph so far…
The photo is fine.
Calling Sudbury and Sault St Marie services “CBC North” is what’s really embarrassing.
Well the token UBC j-school Brit, ex-BBC, found a black and white photo which is actually the 1940s Radio Canada International reading to Czech listeners for his blog comment on cuts http://www.newslab.ca/?p=165.
It was in public domain and who cares if it is out of date….
Anonymous, this is a blog about the CBC, not by the CBC.
Is that too hard a distinction to grasp?
“they are still mostly in color.”
Another example of the creeping Americanization of the CBC.
http://www3.telus.net/linguisticsissues/BritishCanadianAmerican.htm
Uhhh…that’s not CBC North. CBC North covers Yukon, the NWT and Nunavut, with some specialty coverage in northern Quebec.