Wednesday, August 31, 2005
CBC 46: The gutless CBCphobe
Usually it's not worth it paying attention to those who, for no legitimate reason, hide behind anonymity. (I have no problem with lockedout CBC employees who chose to be anonymous or Ouimet who is at least up front about what that blogger is doing)
But one gutless blogger is beginning to really irritate me because he shows up so often on Technorati searches. He (pretty sure it's a he) has only a blog name, "Loyalist" and no e-mail contact.
At least other CBCphobes like Peter Worthington and Andrew Coyne put their names on their writing.
Ever since the lockout began, day after day, Loyalist has been sending cheap shot after cheap shot at the CBC and its locked out employees on his conservative/ Conservative blog "dissonance and disrespect". He even has the gall to grab picket line pictures from Flickr and make his own snarky little remarks about the people on the line including:
So an assignment for all the investigative reporters and web geeks out there. Let's go through the blog, find the internal evidence and technical clues and drag this guy out of his closet (an appropriate analogy, he's also a homophobe)
Why?This hypocrite is a PR man, someone who smiles at us when we are working, calls us and flatters us when he needs us and then goes home and, usually late at night, writes his blog, venting his disdain for most journalists, not just CBC reporters, he gets paid a lot of money to be "friends" with.
He also takes aim at every conservative target, not just the CBC. For example he doesn't like the idea that Air France survivors are purusing a class action suit, thinks biodiversity is a joke (what planet does this guy live on?), calls Michaelle Jean a separatist and says that women in the Canadian Armed Forces are emascualting the troops.
To understand this guy's total lack of logic he says:
1)No one watches the CBC.
2)The CBC, the propaganda arm of the Liberal Party, is solely responsible for orchestrating defeat after defeat of the Conservative Party who are, of course, in his view, the natural governing party for this country.
Huh?
Huh 2? What was happening when Brian Mulroney was Prime Minister?
It's time we found out who Loyalist is, who he works for and put him on our permanent shit list, and take that shit list with us whether we walk back in the doors of the CBC or end up somewhere else.
So let's get started:
General clues:
Many of the blogs are well written. This guy could actually write a column, only problem is the National Post is firing, not hiring.
He monitors all the news services, probably on his employer's dime.
Clue number one.
He's a Journalism school graduate.
Clue Number two. He grew up in rural Nova Scotia.
Clue Number three. He's a flack.
Clue Number Four: He lives in Toronto and reads the Toronto Sun.
If people find other clues, send me the URL and I will post them.
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CBClockout
6:39 PM posted by Robin Rowland
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Usually it's not worth it paying attention to those who, for no legitimate reason, hide behind anonymity. (I have no problem with lockedout CBC employees who chose to be anonymous or Ouimet who is at least up front about what that blogger is doing)
But one gutless blogger is beginning to really irritate me because he shows up so often on Technorati searches. He (pretty sure it's a he) has only a blog name, "Loyalist" and no e-mail contact.
At least other CBCphobes like Peter Worthington and Andrew Coyne put their names on their writing.
Ever since the lockout began, day after day, Loyalist has been sending cheap shot after cheap shot at the CBC and its locked out employees on his conservative/ Conservative blog "dissonance and disrespect". He even has the gall to grab picket line pictures from Flickr and make his own snarky little remarks about the people on the line including:
The collective intelligence of a picket line can be determined by taking the IQ of its least intelligent member and dividing it by 10.
So an assignment for all the investigative reporters and web geeks out there. Let's go through the blog, find the internal evidence and technical clues and drag this guy out of his closet (an appropriate analogy, he's also a homophobe)
Why?This hypocrite is a PR man, someone who smiles at us when we are working, calls us and flatters us when he needs us and then goes home and, usually late at night, writes his blog, venting his disdain for most journalists, not just CBC reporters, he gets paid a lot of money to be "friends" with.
He also takes aim at every conservative target, not just the CBC. For example he doesn't like the idea that Air France survivors are purusing a class action suit, thinks biodiversity is a joke (what planet does this guy live on?), calls Michaelle Jean a separatist and says that women in the Canadian Armed Forces are emascualting the troops.
To understand this guy's total lack of logic he says:
1)No one watches the CBC.
2)The CBC, the propaganda arm of the Liberal Party, is solely responsible for orchestrating defeat after defeat of the Conservative Party who are, of course, in his view, the natural governing party for this country.
Huh?
Huh 2? What was happening when Brian Mulroney was Prime Minister?
It's time we found out who Loyalist is, who he works for and put him on our permanent shit list, and take that shit list with us whether we walk back in the doors of the CBC or end up somewhere else.
So let's get started:
General clues:
Many of the blogs are well written. This guy could actually write a column, only problem is the National Post is firing, not hiring.
He monitors all the news services, probably on his employer's dime.
Clue number one.
He's a Journalism school graduate.
J-school grads (of which this blogger is one) are usually quite quickly seduced by union rhetoric about the need to protect the interests of workers--except, of course, when one particular union, its seniority rules and mediaeval trade-guild mentality stand in the way of working for Holy Mother Corp.
Clue Number two. He grew up in rural Nova Scotia.
Clue Number three. He's a flack.
I too was taught by professors who had worked for years at the CBC and thought it was the sine qua non of Canadian broadcasting, even of the Canadian national identity itself. I also was caught up in the same sterile debates about whether journalists were debased by mucking about with the technicians' work, as if we were part of an officer corps who could not be seen fraternizing with the enlisted men.
Many of these debates ended up turning me off journalism altogether. This blog is about as close to the field as I ever hope to come again...
We all talked about becoming great freelancers when we were in school. Few of us had the stomach to survive the uncertainty and gravitated towards PR jobs instead. Perhaps with this lockout, we'll find out who's really cut for broadcasting and who isn't.
Clue Number Four: He lives in Toronto and reads the Toronto Sun.
If people find other clues, send me the URL and I will post them.
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CBClockout
6:39 PM posted by Robin Rowland
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