As part of the new The National, reporters have been putting together low-rez promos featuring themselves (all with pre-roll CBC promos, so 2 promos for your money). Claire Martin talks about the weather. Rex Murphy talks about his innovative approach to incorporating E-mail into his broadcasts. And Muhammad Lila wants you to know he’s just [...]
Did someone say “transparent”? The anchor desks are now see-through. The incompetence of management is obvious, and on full display. But other than that, in what way is the CBC News now “more transparent”? Wendy? Anyone?
“What they should have done is try something new. Something that reflected both the opportunities the internet has to offer, and its potential to bring real substance and investigative journalism back to televised news. A number of newspapers, like the Toronto Star, have returned to a heavy diet of investigative reports as a means of [...]
Ten days later and the problems in the Control Room seem to have become a way of life for the most experienced broadcasting enterprise in the country.
“The folks who run CBC and CBC News are making complete asses of themselves with their responses to what I would consider a crisis or even a catastrophe.” – Howard Bernstein, Heads in the Sand at CBC
The Globe and Mail writes about the brain trust behind the new CBC News Network, featuring a huffy, shrugging Peter Mansbridge in a “well-appointed office in a corner of the newsroom.”
CBC News Network is generating plenty of work for the online spokesperson for CBC/Radio-Canada.
Leave it to Wendy to find a new angle on a story. We have one too. Was teaching math to Wendy Mesley a waste of time? In a feature segment on last night’s The National, Wendy looked at how much the U.S. spends on NASA compared to how much it spends on education. She found [...]
Didn’t Anne-Marie Mediwake leave Global “to spend more time with her family”?
‘I don’t care what the CBC “doesn’t know about a story.” For crissake, make sure your reporting is accurate. Be responsible yourselves for your reporting! Don’t shirk your journalistic responsibilities by shifting the choices to the viewers!’
