What a forlorn douchebag like Joe Clark has a hard time understanding is that even online, promises are your word and bond and need to be honored at all costs. That and the fact that writing under your own name doesn’t automatically make you in possession of couth or instill respect. So it goes that [...]
In recent weeks management, more likely the think-tank that spawned the HUB, have been finding 4th floor dwellers posting pics of crashed trains, broken wagon wheels, collapsed structures most with the word “HUB” scrawled beneath. Frustrated by the crimes but with no suspects to apprehend, bosses are looking to vent. So what is public enemy [...]
Saw these being loaded up I right away assumed they were pens for the 4th floor newsroom. We are maximizing space, after all.
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 [...]
How do new shows get chosen and developed at CBC? The public broadcaster presents two public seminars – one for radio, one for television – on Thursday, Oct. 29 and Nov. 4, at 12 noon ET. CBC employees who are free for the lunch hour are welcome to attend. On Oct. 29, at noon, look [...]
Free Battle of the Gay Blades tix. Via Craigslist, which of course makes things so much more reassuring
Sophia Hadzipedros wants “sports coverage, an 11:00 p.m. program, and a weekend show” for CBC Toronto
Stella Artois slices and dices the Exploding Pizza.
And another gang shot from Turn Up the Contrast
Scrolling eye takes a good look at BBM ratings, what they mean, and what’s wrong with them.
Depending on who you talk to, the first Nonfiction night at the Drake was a good laugh or a frivolous stab at creating a branded Toronto Media Party, the Spacing for frustrated media hacks. Maybe the whole concept is doomed. The CBC has been in a state of crisis for 70 years. I’ve never had [...]
Allan likes to walk around Toronto and take pictures.Here are some from yesterday.Enjoy.~O
I live in Toronto. Allan lives in Toronto. There’s no denying it.So maybe we should write about it sometimes?Enjoy.~O It was exactly forty years ago that I worked at Sam The Record Man, after hitchhiking from Vancouver to Toronto.Just passing through, so Sam asked for a reference and I got one for him from a [...]
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