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- ‘The Strombo Show’ SUCKS – a fair and balanced perspective (195)
- "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
- "this still makes me really really angry. all the blah blah about diversity, serving communities, cancon playlists and all that..."
- Richard Stursberg fired (54)
- "Liberals cut CBC’s funding, Canadians didn’t care. Conservatives cut CBC’s funding (but not enough) and..."
by Anonymous on August 11, 2010 8:22 pm
- "Liberals cut CBC’s funding, Canadians didn’t care. Conservatives cut CBC’s funding (but not enough) and..."
- Hitler learns of Stursberg’s dismissal (20)
- "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
- "Do you need a pacifier and a blankie Mr. I can’t take a joke because I’m so, so, so offended ?"
- The Utter Boredom and Bullshit of Jian Ghomeshi (71)
- "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
- "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..."
- Do you think Jian tweets because he is lonely? (665)
- "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
- "Hey Jian! Would you mind not laughing at the Filipino slum people while Lights is filming herself trying to look sad!"
- ‘The Strombo Show’ SUCKS – a fair and balanced perspective (195)
You can’t expect the person who answers the phone is going to be able to help you with thisd sort of thing… just silly.
So cbc reported on it, but because they didn’t make a huge deal of it (since all the other piles of climate science stand, and consensus amongst every single major scientific body on the planet stands), CBC is somehow beholden to the pro-climate change cabal? More like beholden to reality.
Might as well post a comment, since Edmonton’s climate is not changing from -35 C today…
The reality is that the CBC Radio 2 runs two programs that feature lengthy ongoing coverage of climate change. See The Current podcast archive for their Nov. 25th feature on Suzuki and Gore, for example. Quirks and Quarks have a couple of stories on climate change in their podcast archive at the moment. So, given these programs’ devotion to the subject matter, one would expect some coverage of Climategate. As far as I can find, there was about 5-10 minutes on The Current’s letters segment Dec. 3rd when they responded to a listener complaint about lack of coverage. They got somebody who had written a pro-climate-change history of the CRU to pooh-pooh it. That’s it. I can find nothing on Quirks and Quarks.
For an interesting example of how touchy the CBC is on the subject, search the web site for “climategate bloggerheads” and watch the video. A right wing blogger dared to suggest they were ignoring it. The response was defensive to say the least.
The silence of Quirks and Quarks is more disturbing. I haven’t heard anybody denying the authenticity of the emails and it could make for an interesting story on the passions and politics behind the scientific method that is often thought to be dry and dispassionate.
Speaking of scientific method, I propose a prediction based on my hypothesis that CBC is suppressing this story due to bias: should some evidence emerge that big-energy money financed the hacking, either The Current or Quirks will give full coverage to it.
That’s an impressive interest you have in the topic.
Didn’t we know from the beginning that there was no story here?
The email revelation was more about human behaviour in private communication than any new understanding about climate change.
If it’s behaviour we want to reflect on, Tiger Woods is more interesting.
This AP story puts some of it in perspective
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/12/climate-change-science-no_n_389783.html
No point in dwelling on “Climategate” when the real story was always going to be, and is, what happens in Copenhagen.
The clip here is fun to listen to, and for a receptionist-type who isn’t told she’s being broadcast to the internet, she handles the call really quite well.