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Jeffrey Dvorkin

January 25, 2010 – 11:06 am

“Sources (digne de foi, as they say in Quebec) tell me that Trina and Peter found their board colleagues to be trying – deeply disinterested in and unfamiliar with public broadcasting values. It must have been a very frustrating tenure.”
- Jeffrey Dvorkin, CBC Board to Get New Blood

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The Year In Review

December 28, 2009 – 12:21 pm

2009 is nearly done, and depending on where you were standing in the CBC, it was a great one or a miserable one. It was a great year for the writers of press releases, for example. Kids who got bumped from their jobs were a bit bitter. Steven and Chris came out even.

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The Tea Makers shutters print, broadcast divisions, goes online-only

July 7, 2009 – 6:08 pm

Old Farmers’ Tea Makers now available in stylus, Etch-a-Sketch, Lite-Brite, Kindle

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NPR, CBC Radio, factual entertainment and the maggot

March 22, 2009 – 7:28 pm

2 chums have a civil exchange concerning the nature of public broadcasting.

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Hubert: make us an offer

February 26, 2009 – 3:53 pm

In his speech to the Empire Club today, Hubert suggested that the CBC may have to sell anything not nailed down to make it through the tough times:
“Frankly, all the options are on the table in terms of trying to monetize some of our assets to generate some revenues.”
According to the CP, “A CBC spokesman [...]

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Jeffrey Dvorkin’s mission: impossible

February 26, 2009 – 3:25 pm

From Now the Details:
Like many media organizations, the CBC is overextended in terms of content. In short, it produces too much for too few people. Its flagship TV newscast runs third in the ratings and its news department has lost money and influence to other programming department. CBC says it has no choice; the Parliamentary [...]

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CMG agreement ratified

January 30, 2009 – 9:29 am

According to the CMG, the future starts now.

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Wikipedia cofounder nearly ousted by spider-tattooed ex-CBCer

January 3, 2009 – 5:11 pm

From Valleywag:
How did Wales come to this embarrassing pass? The former porn merchant and options trader, who has traded sex and money for his help in getting Wikipedia entries edited, has met his Machiavellian match, in the form of Sue Gardner, a Gothy, spider-tattooed Canadian pop-culture expert who now runs the site he helped start [...]

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50 Tracks for Obama

January 3, 2009 – 4:56 pm

We did this once before. Actually twice. But fresh ideas can be hard to come by.
Just ask Maestro Fresh Wes, who suggests that Obama listen to.. um, Maestro Fresh Wes.

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Merry Recycled Christmas

December 23, 2008 – 12:55 pm

With a hiring freeze on non-essential senior managers and the chilly no-party zone that is the CBC this Christmas season, it might warm you up to look back on a time when holiday-themed promotional animated gifs flowed like unused drink tickets in the Atrium.
In these frugal times recycling old sentiments seems not just natural, but [...]

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Confessions of a CBC Girl

December 4, 2008 – 2:20 pm

For obvious reasons, Confessions of a CBC Girl will not be added to the Tea Makers sidebar links.
But Jeffrey Dvorkin’s Now The Details will be.
These links have not been updated since 2007. If there any other CBC-related sites we are missing, let us know in the comments.

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One vp to rule us all

December 1, 2008 – 6:02 am

It seems like only a week ago President Hubert was declaring war against wastefulness at the CBC, like Eliott Ness going after Al Capone:
In other words, if it’s discretionary, it’s gone. If it’s anything less than a bona fide requirement, it’s gone. If it’s not absolutely strategic, it’s gone.
Well, that was last week. War is [...]

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Stursberg and Cruikshank and your media

November 28, 2008 – 8:51 am

The Globe and Mail quotes Stursberg:
He was a great fit here. We got on great. I’m very fond of him. People in news admired him as a great leader. Sometimes these things happen.
And Fake Tod Maffin at insidethecbc quotes Cruikshank:
I’m going to The Star because I want to go back to newspapers because I understand [...]

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Dining with The Culture Makers

November 25, 2008 – 7:14 am

Outrage over CBC executives’ expense accounts is all the rage this season. Much as it was in the 40s, when execs regularly used these accounts to double their salaries. Most of it was spent on hard liquor in the prairies. Those were the days! Nowadays you spend it on a Harvard education and the media [...]

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