Saturday, August 20, 2005
CBC lockout VI: Blog war and other stuff
Storm warning
I was on the picket line yesterday afternoon when the storm struck around the Toronto Broadcast Centre, grabbing shots of our folks caught in the downpour. After about 40 minutes, camera batteries were pretty well exhausted anyway,so I headed home. I got soaked through just crossing Wellington Street to get to the subway via Metro Hall.
I was going downtown late Friday when the Bloor Danforth subway was shut down due "to a police investigation on the Bloor viaduct" the announcement said. That sent one poor woman nearly over the edge. She was telling everyone she had been trying to go somewhere for hours and this had all started, she said, when the Don Valley Parkway was flooded out near the Lakeshore. She fled the station just before the power came on. (That meant it wasn't a jumper, perhaps some fool on the tracks). The poor woman should have stayed five minutes longer.
Then this morning I saw in the papers how bad the storm was. ( No I didn't watch a newscast when I got home.)
A major storm with tornado warnings for Metro Toronto! This is the kind of situation where my colleagues at CBC Radio do consistently excellent work. So I wonder where the audience went while CBC Radio played second rate classical music? Was there anyone listening to that second rate classical music and missed the storm warning?
And it doesn't matter whether or not you support the CMG in this or not. Some on the right are now asking whether or not taxpayers' money should go to the CBC management ads. Now is the time for those on the right and the left to ask, what is the responsibility of a public broadcaster when a tornado is heading toward a major urban centre? Just what are the Canadian--and especially southern Ontario--taxpayers getting for their money at this moment?
Casual hell (A note from the blog war archive)
To backup what I said earlier about what happens to anyone who is stuck as a casual, my former colleague at CBC.ca Bill Doskoch posted this back in January as discussions were just beginning.
Bill argues with himself about casual hell. It's worth reading to show people, especially the Iron Rice Bowl jerks just what is really like, not only at the CBC but at the private broadcasters as well. The original post now has comments related to the lockout.
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10:24 AM posted by Robin Rowland
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Storm warning
I was on the picket line yesterday afternoon when the storm struck around the Toronto Broadcast Centre, grabbing shots of our folks caught in the downpour. After about 40 minutes, camera batteries were pretty well exhausted anyway,so I headed home. I got soaked through just crossing Wellington Street to get to the subway via Metro Hall.
I was going downtown late Friday when the Bloor Danforth subway was shut down due "to a police investigation on the Bloor viaduct" the announcement said. That sent one poor woman nearly over the edge. She was telling everyone she had been trying to go somewhere for hours and this had all started, she said, when the Don Valley Parkway was flooded out near the Lakeshore. She fled the station just before the power came on. (That meant it wasn't a jumper, perhaps some fool on the tracks). The poor woman should have stayed five minutes longer.
Then this morning I saw in the papers how bad the storm was. ( No I didn't watch a newscast when I got home.)
A major storm with tornado warnings for Metro Toronto! This is the kind of situation where my colleagues at CBC Radio do consistently excellent work. So I wonder where the audience went while CBC Radio played second rate classical music? Was there anyone listening to that second rate classical music and missed the storm warning?
And it doesn't matter whether or not you support the CMG in this or not. Some on the right are now asking whether or not taxpayers' money should go to the CBC management ads. Now is the time for those on the right and the left to ask, what is the responsibility of a public broadcaster when a tornado is heading toward a major urban centre? Just what are the Canadian--and especially southern Ontario--taxpayers getting for their money at this moment?
Casual hell (A note from the blog war archive)
To backup what I said earlier about what happens to anyone who is stuck as a casual, my former colleague at CBC.ca Bill Doskoch posted this back in January as discussions were just beginning.
Bill argues with himself about casual hell. It's worth reading to show people, especially the Iron Rice Bowl jerks just what is really like, not only at the CBC but at the private broadcasters as well. The original post now has comments related to the lockout.
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10:24 AM posted by Robin Rowland
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