Wednesday, August 31, 2005
CBC 41: Katrina
It's 0431 as I start to type this. Outside what Environment Canada calls "post tropical storm Katrina" is sending a steady, sustained, heavy rain (no nasty wind thank the Gods).
Half an hour an hour ago a tapping noise outside my bedroom woke me up. Yes, I have Katrina damage. Extremely minor compared to what has happened in the United States, but there is an ugly yellow stain and one small hole in the ceiling so far, so there's a towel down there right now, (the plastic bucket is too noisy) so I can get another couple of hours sleep before my early morning assignment, photographing for the Guild newsletter whomever is braving the picket line early in the morning.
I heard someone else had roof damage from that storm last week, a couple has a baby due tomorrow and at least two people I know just bought their houses,
Things like this happen in other labour disputes of course. And we do stories about it and we the journalists move on while the strikers/lockoutees also continue with their lives. We never hear about them again unless someone decides to do a "follow-up."
CTV, which is covering the destruction in the southern United States, will move on when their managers decided it is no longer cost effective. CTV is blanketing the Katrina story largely because they are out to prove they are, at the moment, Canada's TV news service. If CBC was not locked out they would have probably sent one reporter. They have at least two from what I have watched plus Tom Clark watching from Washington.
As for the CBC, at least some people are writing to the papers to say how much they appreciate blanket Coronation Street.
I checked both the Environment Canada and NOAA radar tracks. Looks like its the tail end of everything and it will only last a couple of more hours.
But to the game players in Ottawa who started all this, and it is a game, a propaganda sheet mailed to us by the CBC made it clear that this is all tied to what we thought it was, a pre-emptive strike to make sure the Guild didn't strike during the hockey season, once we go back, you've done absolutely nothing for employee morale. Or respect for the leadership of the CBC.
And if you win, having the disposable work force is not going to help save the CBC, no matter what your myriad of overpaid consultants tell you. But by that time, the managers who planned all this will also have moved on and the worker bees at CBC will have to pick up the pieces,
Back to sleep, I hope.
4:31 AM posted by Robin Rowland
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It's 0431 as I start to type this. Outside what Environment Canada calls "post tropical storm Katrina" is sending a steady, sustained, heavy rain (no nasty wind thank the Gods).
Half an hour an hour ago a tapping noise outside my bedroom woke me up. Yes, I have Katrina damage. Extremely minor compared to what has happened in the United States, but there is an ugly yellow stain and one small hole in the ceiling so far, so there's a towel down there right now, (the plastic bucket is too noisy) so I can get another couple of hours sleep before my early morning assignment, photographing for the Guild newsletter whomever is braving the picket line early in the morning.
I heard someone else had roof damage from that storm last week, a couple has a baby due tomorrow and at least two people I know just bought their houses,
Things like this happen in other labour disputes of course. And we do stories about it and we the journalists move on while the strikers/lockoutees also continue with their lives. We never hear about them again unless someone decides to do a "follow-up."
CTV, which is covering the destruction in the southern United States, will move on when their managers decided it is no longer cost effective. CTV is blanketing the Katrina story largely because they are out to prove they are, at the moment, Canada's TV news service. If CBC was not locked out they would have probably sent one reporter. They have at least two from what I have watched plus Tom Clark watching from Washington.
As for the CBC, at least some people are writing to the papers to say how much they appreciate blanket Coronation Street.
I checked both the Environment Canada and NOAA radar tracks. Looks like its the tail end of everything and it will only last a couple of more hours.
But to the game players in Ottawa who started all this, and it is a game, a propaganda sheet mailed to us by the CBC made it clear that this is all tied to what we thought it was, a pre-emptive strike to make sure the Guild didn't strike during the hockey season, once we go back, you've done absolutely nothing for employee morale. Or respect for the leadership of the CBC.
And if you win, having the disposable work force is not going to help save the CBC, no matter what your myriad of overpaid consultants tell you. But by that time, the managers who planned all this will also have moved on and the worker bees at CBC will have to pick up the pieces,
Back to sleep, I hope.
4:31 AM posted by Robin Rowland
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