Not Watching For The Asteroid

Didn't I just see that on the CBC last night?

That is the Graduate School final exam at CBC.

Perfect.... He forgot to mention that they only select the crap they want to promote. With a prominent "left" angle... CTV drags this kind of bullshit out for 2 hours every day in Calgary from 5 to 7. The whole program could be over in 15 minutes. I quit watching long ago.

I've always wanted to see someone right a gag about all these reporters at a major news story walking and talking with their microphones but bumping into each other and getting their mic chords tangled.

I wonder if Dowdy Kitchen Man has a facebook page, hmmmmm....

I'm glad you posted this, I've watched it atleast once a day for the last 4 days, funny every time!

"...ignoring all the other pr!cks around him, like he's gliding through the f*cking matrix" ROFL!

I think he left out the part where the film is carefully edited to make sure only one point of view is presented.

That guy must have watched a lot of Monty Python, as a youngster. They spent a lot of time lampooning the BBC, and running ridiculous news reports. This chap has a similar style.

I'd say he's put the news into a nutshell. And funny, too.

Brilliant. Nailed it. Dead on.

I've always made fun of CBC reporters, for this very reason. They're all friggin' robots, using the exact same inflection, and punctuating their sentences at the same moments. Fred and bethesdaguy are exactly right, further up in the thread.

And their sign offs. Oh, God, the banal CBC sign off:

- Neil McDonald
{subtle pause}
- CBC News
{subtle pause}
- Washington

Can somebody tell CBC reporters to grow a personality?

That was hilarious!!!

I just got off the ground

I read a book once called "Subliminal Seduction", it was about how porno was put into ads to make your mind connect the product with sex. In this clip I saw two terrorist porno promos, a beheading (the lighthouse keeper - a conservative, grandfatherly looking white man - and then the pipe hanging out the window looks like a burnt body of a headless human. Am I reading too much into the newscast or are those talking heads trying to lull us into the acceptance of terrorist porno, in the 'news'?

Supremely banal and spot on. They could just run that piece at the Beeb on slow news days - or every day for that matter and everyone there could just put their feet up.

Writing as someone who has a degree in broadcast journalism, I can tell you that this is pretty much exactly how we were told to do it. Yes, they actually teach this stuff in j-school -- in fact, this clip nicely summarizes many of my TV reporting classes.

It reminds me again of my personal mantra throughout school: "Stuart McLean can suck my ass."

I thought it was brilliant and right on target ...that really is the shite spewed out of your television set like a pre-teen that drank to much right after a thanksgiving dinner ...that is what the msm calls "NEWS" these day's ...i would refer to it as views ..not news ....it is how someone views a specific event especially the leftards "VIEWS" anyway i got a chuckle out of it but in reality it is sad .

Paul in calgary.

LOL I loved that, CBC cracks me up when their reporters report a weather event from outside CBC mothership headquarters. To freaking lazy to go out and get real pictures of weather events so they shiver in front of their office.

How about the CBC's Terry Milewski and how when signing off he pitches toward and away from the camera, as if he thinks it's Doctor Tongues 3D House of Stewardesses.

Whicker Island:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn8Pua5rhj4

I loved it. I can't wipe the smile off my face.

Thanks Kate

He forgot the throw back to the studio, where we see the talking head give a tsk, tsk, as if the world is surely to end if action isn't taken on the tragic news item.

I believe we can turn this clip into a newscast version of Buzzword Bingo and amuse ourselves for weeks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzzword_bingo

Now THAT was good TV. :)

Don't forget about having a wailing siren at the beginning of any report featuring a disaster or car accident. "Made you look!"

I'll go on record as a Heheheheheh

Whicker Island:

Now THAT is like EVERY f#$king CBC story I've ever seen, period. Over to you Loid.....(as in mongloid)

loved it!

That's hilarious! CBC & CTV must follow the same playbook.

On the local Ottawa news front, we have Kimberley Walker @ CJOH who speaks in italics. I rarely ever watch CJOH anymore. By the time 6 pm rolls around, I've heard all the news on the radio throughout the day.

Then there was A-Ottawa where I never could figure out why Doug Hemptstead was carrying a video camera while being filmed by someone else.

Don't forget the all-important adjectives. "The (ruthless, exploiting, greedy, insensitive, uncaring, angry, spiteful, big) (businessman, corporation, capitalist, conservative, Israeli, white, male) did (hideous, unspeakable, craven,. . .) things to the (innocent, struggling, oppressed, unfortunate, towntrodden, trapped) (insert politically correct victim group du jour) blah, blah, blah."

Ah...The new CBC format. New sets, new sounds, no desks, all legs...All American "When we come back from break..." style.
So clumsy, they crack me up.

The funniest is morning "news" in Canada:

-At the Ceeb we have Heather Hixcox who still seems to practise her jaw exercises she learned at school to pronounce words clearly and her loud mouth Sports/weather screecher sidekick Colleen Jones.

-At CTV we have the bleeding heart pack: Bubble headed Marcy, Sad-eyes-all-AAauuh! Beverly, East coast whimp boy Seamus and of course their own unfunny, speaks too fast about stuff none cares about weatherman/sports jester, Jeff.

We need a "FOX" something bad in Canada. I already have the perfect name for a Canadian format of FOX News: LYNX news.