Thursday, September 01, 2005
CBC 47: Katrina notes. Why aren't we there?
Katrina note 1.
A failure to communicate
I turn on the TV this morning and see on ABC that the entire city of New Orleans is being evacuated. I've just seen a picture of an elegant southern mansion, with water just below the level of some old oil paintings and water lapping up a polished wood spiral staircase. Earlier there were pictures of refugees crowding in to the Houston Astrodome. The reporter is saying that some people will never return to New Orleans, another on a cable network says, no definitive source quoted, that people could be homeless for five years.
I switched to Newsworld. Some documentary. At the top of the clock, the BBC was back. I went back to ABC.
Last night "CBC News" returned. For 15 minutes at 9 p.m last night, the CBC covered Katrina, in a long, about four or five minute voice over "melt" from Washington by manager Judy Piercey.
And the supers? Who chose the supers? They're using white on red BBC style supers. Are they trying to pretend they're the BBC? Or can't they find the proper supers in the character generator?
Katrina is a major blow to the United States, it's destroyed much of the Gulf coastal region, sent oil prices to unimagined highs, and Bush said on ABC this morning he's going to solve all of it without raising taxes, which means the U.S. deficit will also go through the roof and that, together with the oil crunch, deal dangerous damage to the world's economy.
Why aren't we there? Why isn't Peter Mansbridge and the National in Mississippi? Why wasn't As It Happens talking to people in small towns in Louisiana for both the Canadian and its huge American audience?
Because the Guns of August have moved to the disasters of September. The tame the union plan must take precedence over everything, including the CBC's legal obligations under the mandate to serve the people of this country. I am sick.
Katrina Note 2. Radio is essential
I have noted on this blog in the past that a lot of U.S. radio is syndicated. But in the podcasting universe, and has we move toward more podcasts, it is worth remambering in that in a disaster, radio is essential to human survival and some US stations followed a long tradition and did great service during Katrina. But, of course, as that post also notes, there are now fewer of them to do it. (Originally linked from Micropersuasian)
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Katrina note 1.
A failure to communicate
I turn on the TV this morning and see on ABC that the entire city of New Orleans is being evacuated. I've just seen a picture of an elegant southern mansion, with water just below the level of some old oil paintings and water lapping up a polished wood spiral staircase. Earlier there were pictures of refugees crowding in to the Houston Astrodome. The reporter is saying that some people will never return to New Orleans, another on a cable network says, no definitive source quoted, that people could be homeless for five years.
I switched to Newsworld. Some documentary. At the top of the clock, the BBC was back. I went back to ABC.
Last night "CBC News" returned. For 15 minutes at 9 p.m last night, the CBC covered Katrina, in a long, about four or five minute voice over "melt" from Washington by manager Judy Piercey.
And the supers? Who chose the supers? They're using white on red BBC style supers. Are they trying to pretend they're the BBC? Or can't they find the proper supers in the character generator?
Katrina is a major blow to the United States, it's destroyed much of the Gulf coastal region, sent oil prices to unimagined highs, and Bush said on ABC this morning he's going to solve all of it without raising taxes, which means the U.S. deficit will also go through the roof and that, together with the oil crunch, deal dangerous damage to the world's economy.
Why aren't we there? Why isn't Peter Mansbridge and the National in Mississippi? Why wasn't As It Happens talking to people in small towns in Louisiana for both the Canadian and its huge American audience?
Because the Guns of August have moved to the disasters of September. The tame the union plan must take precedence over everything, including the CBC's legal obligations under the mandate to serve the people of this country. I am sick.
Katrina Note 2. Radio is essential
I have noted on this blog in the past that a lot of U.S. radio is syndicated. But in the podcasting universe, and has we move toward more podcasts, it is worth remambering in that in a disaster, radio is essential to human survival and some US stations followed a long tradition and did great service during Katrina. But, of course, as that post also notes, there are now fewer of them to do it. (Originally linked from Micropersuasian)
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CBClockout, Katrina
8:10 AM posted by Robin Rowland
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