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Recent comments:
- ‘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)
Right! We have to wait for them to leave the country & “make it” in New York, LA, London or Paris before we will pay any attention to them and find them as interesting as the rest of the world does.
According to Strombo success in Canada doesn’t count for much.
So no surprise that The Hour only serves to re-enforce that view by fawning over Americans more than Canadians.
In an interview with the National Post, explaining what he would do if he were Mayor of Toronto …
“I’™d address the city’™s entertainment brain drain. I don’™t understand why Canadian TV stations and Canadian radio have to program a minimum amount of CanCon, but movie theatres don’™t have the same rules. CTV is a publicly traded company just like Cineplex. If we’™re saying CanCon laws exist to protect Canadian culture, why aren’™t we protecting Canadian-made films? The film industry feeds the television business and if we have homegrown film stars, it will help radio and TV. Also, it will encourage the next generation. The reason Toronto has had so much success with local bands like Metric and Broken Social Scene is because all of those bands from the ’™90s ’” I Mother Earth, The Rheostatics, Blue Rodeo, Our Lady Peace ’” were played on the radio. Grow up listening to the band from around the corner on the radio, you think that you can do it, too. Actors from Toronto still only see their peers succeed in America.”
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/toronto/archive/2010/01/16/if-i-were-mayor-george-stroumboulopoulos-amp-annie-kidder.aspx
CBC Radio is boring because almost no content is made for it. There’s Ideas and some re-purposed stuff like The Debaters and The Vinyl Cafe but there is virtually no scripted entertainment. I wouldn’t say Canadian’s are boring so much as they are too cheap to pay for shows.
Allan, you suck so bad lately that you’re not even worth hating on.