Saturday, September 17, 2005
CBC 86: Layton to PM, fire Rabinovitch
NDP leader Jack Layton made a brief appearance at the Gala du Cadenas concert at Toronto's Tranzac club Friday. The concert was put together by locked out SRC and Francophone workers at CBC in Toronto.
Layton took the stage between sets by the musicians to slam the lack of coverage of Francophone Canada outside Quebec and then called on Prime Minister Paul Martin to fire CBC President Robert Rabinvotich, a statement that brought loud cheers from the packed club.
Layton's call for Rabinovitch to go is echoed by Antonia Zerbisias in the Toronto Star who asks "Who gave CBC president and CEO Robert Rabinovitch and his appointees, Richard Stursberg, executive vice-president of CBC-TV, and Jane Chalmers, CBC Radio vice-president, the mandate to destroy our national public broadcasting system?"
And by James Ferabee in the Ottawa Citizen, who repeats the same tired old refrain that the CBC is biased against Conservatives, with too many staff and says that employees, not managment control the Corpse (and what planet does Ferabee live on?), and is unfair to George Bush (has he watched CNN or ABC lately?) then says: "The best solution is for the government to appoint two or three Canadians with vision to spend a year studying the challenges faced by the national broadcaster. Then, appoint a new slate of executives at CBC head office to make the necessary changes." The problem is that if three Canadians with real intelligence and vision studied the future of the CBC and then recommended new executives for the CBC, not a bad idea in my view, it would drive small-minded conservatives like Ferabee further up the wall.
Let me put it this way, I wouldn't mind Preston Manning on that committee, I may personally disagree with some of his stands, but he has always struck me as an intelligent and fair man, and, if balanced by two other Canadians with vision, the outcome wouldn't be all that bad.
As for Layton's call for Rabinovitch's ouster; it's a minority government, isn't it?
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NDP leader Jack Layton made a brief appearance at the Gala du Cadenas concert at Toronto's Tranzac club Friday. The concert was put together by locked out SRC and Francophone workers at CBC in Toronto.
Layton took the stage between sets by the musicians to slam the lack of coverage of Francophone Canada outside Quebec and then called on Prime Minister Paul Martin to fire CBC President Robert Rabinvotich, a statement that brought loud cheers from the packed club.
Layton's call for Rabinovitch to go is echoed by Antonia Zerbisias in the Toronto Star who asks "Who gave CBC president and CEO Robert Rabinovitch and his appointees, Richard Stursberg, executive vice-president of CBC-TV, and Jane Chalmers, CBC Radio vice-president, the mandate to destroy our national public broadcasting system?"
And by James Ferabee in the Ottawa Citizen, who repeats the same tired old refrain that the CBC is biased against Conservatives, with too many staff and says that employees, not managment control the Corpse (and what planet does Ferabee live on?), and is unfair to George Bush (has he watched CNN or ABC lately?) then says: "The best solution is for the government to appoint two or three Canadians with vision to spend a year studying the challenges faced by the national broadcaster. Then, appoint a new slate of executives at CBC head office to make the necessary changes." The problem is that if three Canadians with real intelligence and vision studied the future of the CBC and then recommended new executives for the CBC, not a bad idea in my view, it would drive small-minded conservatives like Ferabee further up the wall.
Let me put it this way, I wouldn't mind Preston Manning on that committee, I may personally disagree with some of his stands, but he has always struck me as an intelligent and fair man, and, if balanced by two other Canadians with vision, the outcome wouldn't be all that bad.
As for Layton's call for Rabinovitch's ouster; it's a minority government, isn't it?
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