Monthly Archives: May 2009

Mediabeat Letter 2

May 29, 2009 – 8:06 am

Beat harder.

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The tweeting wounded

May 28, 2009 – 10:38 am

What was there to be unsure about, luvmuffin? Yesterday was a rotten day.
What makes it worse is that when someone is classified as ‘redundant,’ it’s not over yet. If they’re in the union, they get a chance to bump someone out who’s not in the union, or who has less seniority. Just as long as [...]

By The Tweet Makers | Tagged | 9 comments

A media lynch mob in Toronto

May 27, 2009 – 12:24 pm

Jeffrey Dvorkin has a bone to pick with Canadian crime reporting.

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Oh Pumpkins

May 27, 2009 – 12:17 pm

As I read the latest posts on “Inside CBC” — I feel like an Aberdeen Angus that slipped out the back door of the slaughterhouse when no one was looking. I am free, ambling through green pastures, my mind is beginning to clear and I realize how close I came to being turned into hamburger. [...]

By Ma Murray | Tagged | 15 comments

Open Doors, Open Hearts

May 24, 2009 – 4:19 am

Everyone was so nice.A Love-In.Much needed.(click on images to enlarge)

By Allan | 4 comments

you might like it … in about 8 months!

May 22, 2009 – 6:07 pm

Things are so “anything-goes-cause-there’s-no-way-this-paper-will-ever-make-money” at the National Post that Lia Grainger writes …If you’re one of those crime show addicts, try something made in Canada: CBC’s new The Republic of Doyle follows a father and son team of private investigators as they patrol the coast of Newfoundland. That is, once the CBC actually makes [...]

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A Little … Weird

May 22, 2009 – 5:20 pm

The Floor Director for The Hour is pointing out the many fire exits to the studio audience, as he must before each taping.
But there’s an extra addition to his comedic spiel (and The Hour’s audience will laugh at almost anything).
There are two tables off to the side that hold a couple of LCD monitors, and [...]

By Allan | 3 comments

Effluvia

May 14, 2009 – 8:10 am

From the fridge next to the CBC newsroom, posted by John Bowman.

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The $87,000 expense account

May 8, 2009 – 4:40 pm

New expenses reports have been posted, showing that in the closing months of ‘08, as the CBC was losing millions, Stursberg’s self-entitled billings didn’t just stay the same, they actually went up!Though we assume that he has an office, he still finds it necessary to have dinner with a “broadcast executive” and pick up the [...]

By Allan | Tagged | 3 comments

Hey you! Tech nuts!

May 8, 2009 – 7:39 am

Who you calling tech nuts, Dianne Buckner?
Look, I don’t have any time for the Facebook Phenomenon right now. I’m right in the middle of the Tweethole Meltdown. And I’ve a whole bag of tweets to get through before the Amazon buys twitter and teamakers and puts it all on the Big Kindle and behind the [...]

By The Tweet Makers | Tagged , , | 8 comments

JS&P to be updated at a future date to accommodate all this Googling

May 6, 2009 – 1:23 pm

Now you too can attend a pointless, long-ass strategy meeting, just like a real CBCer!
Esther Enkin throws open the doors to a public discussion on rewriting the Journalistic Standards and Practices to bring it up to date.
First on the agenda: comments. When should they be deleted?
If you ever wanted an example of “old media” struggling [...]

By Anonymous | 3 comments

CBC-inspired shoes

May 5, 2009 – 11:00 am

The unsanctioned CBC shoe is part of Fluevog’s Radio line.Can we sue them over this?

By Anonymous | 6 comments

Looking ahead to May

May 4, 2009 – 8:27 am

May 1, 2009 – It’s been a pretty interesting week (understatement!), so I thought I’d drop you a quick line.
CBC/Radio-Canada had two important appearances this week: mine before the Heritage Committee on Monday and another by Steven Guiton, Richard Stursberg, Sylvain Lafrance, Louis Lalande, François Conway and Bev Kirshenblatt before the CRTC on Wednesday. [...]

By the desk of Hubert T. Lacroix | Tagged | 5 comments

Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster. And when you gaze long into the tweethole, the tweethole also gazes into you

May 1, 2009 – 8:51 am

Social Media Professionals and Nietzsche will tell you that you only get out of social media what you put into it. So it goes without saying that when you make fun of the twitter people, sooner or later you become that which you made fun of.
“That site,” my friends, is this site. And noizangel is [...]

By The Tweet Makers | Tagged | One comment

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