Its time for this white elephant to go..Come to my new blog and voice your opinions!

Spoiled leftists, IMO.

They don't want to acknowledge the reality of how many, many Canadians eke out a living. Most of us aren't unionized. Most of us aren't overpaid. We wouldn't even contemplate that sort of breath-holding-till-we-turn-blue.

While generally good, decent people, the picketers are also spoiled. No need to consider pay-for-performance or even of performance. Any criticism, even good-natured and kidding, of unionism is met by vicious defensiveness. Trust me. I know very well from working a while for the Feds. One gets the impression from them that only their opinions are valid and all others are malevolent and deserving of abuse. And they stand around a lot just chewing the fat while private-sector nonunionized productive people are toiling away...

Money does bad things to good people.

I myself am proud to be up for another raise next month, and all I had to do was mention in context and in passing how efficient and productive I have been as Production Manager of a small, relatively less-capitalized coffee factory. This is far more rewarding and soul-satisfying than standing around with a sandwich board around one's neck...

Please, union people, I was just giving my humble POV there. No need to badmouth me. Just consider my side, why not? Not everyone's unionized nor wants to be. You have all kinds of benefits. I have none. No pension plan. No dental. Virtually impossible to set up a vacation that's not coincident with a long weekend or major holiday. Unpaid, of course. So rather than calling us names, please have some compassion for the less fortunate in your society who get frustrated when seeing unionists demanding ever-more big globs of dough, especially when it comes out of MY paycheck...

Curt Petrovich's depiction of CBC management as worse than the 9/11 terrorists is incredibly vile and disgusting. And the best (worst?) description of this the Globe & Mail can come up with is "disheartening"? This is an outrage!

The CBC on strike? I did'nt notice.

What i find really interesting is the adoption of blogging/podcasting by the cbcv employees as a form of public relations media as well as to communicate across the country.

They haven't, until recently, acknowledged the utility of the technology which has become an increasing source (for your every day Joe/Jane) of first hand reporting/comment, until they needed a tool in order to communicate their views without the benefit of a national broadcast medium. This I feel, points out that they do realise the reach of blogs, but choose to ignore their impact.

Could this be a watershed in the CDN MSM where the experience is taken onboard after the lockout is over?

The Liberal Left's media arm can go to hell!
To emulate a phraseology brought to this country by some of whom I consider ... unsavory newcomers who seem to spend a lot of time in church ...
"DEATH TO THE CBC!"

Expat Canadian points out the curiosity of MSM employees who may feel some threat re: the Blogosphere, yet endorse it by participating in their time of crises... Flabbergasting! or is that .....casting?

People never seem to be able to negotiate, debate, cooperate, pro-create. Well three out of four anyway.

Being at the top seems to breed an ivory tower blind stupidity.

The same wisdom we see being exercised by two mature nations with diplomatc staff who are squabbling over a speck of bald rock between Greenland and Ellsmere. Absolute brilliance!

The total lack of diplomacy being practised between Canada and the USA over 5 billion in softwood skim funds.
More absolute brilliance!

The Jihadists must think they have it made. Who could lose against the Western idiots who have everything and yet quibble like tots in a playpen?

When are we going to grow up and get some *cool*? 73s TonyGuitar [BendGovt.blog.ca]

What's a "CBC"?

Mother Corpse.

Mark
Ottawa

Is there some way we tax payers can take over the union strike pay when it empties. I'd like to pay them to stay out permanently...we've never had better programming at such a cost savings on CBC for decades.

Interesting how all these died in the wool socialists at the CBC and other govt departments have no qualms about taxing my ass off so they can enjoy higher wages than me. I guess some people are more equal than others.
'Socialist greed', hmm, that has a nice ring to it.

Marxist-Leninist dogma has long established the "right" of those building the socialist dream to receive their due.

Does anyone know the purpose of the 'Media Monitoring & Analysis' search engine on the Foreign Affairs website.

http://206.75.155.11/fa/newlook/browseclips.asp?Lang=E&option=Daily

Is this for the benefit of the public, for the PMO, or diplomats living overseas?

If the beauracrats want to monitor what's happening across the country or globally, maybe they should consider revamping the program to include BLOGS. Or maybe it should be scrapped altogether for something called GOOGLE.

And how much of taxpayers money was spent on another government website created merely to satisfy the whims of a few managers sitting in Ottawa.

Did anybody happen to watch CTV Question Period today? They actually had two REAL journalists on: David Akin and Paula Newton. Not one giggle throughout the whole hour, lots of intelligent questions not who's hot/not b.s. Had three young (under 30) Tories explaining what they want from their party and what the party can give young people. Talked to party chairs, Reynolds, McKinnon and McGrath (NDP) about fall vs winter election. The Libs tried it on with the anti-Christian (that's gonna be the theme, folks) remarks and David Akin told him he was sounding too much like the last Liberal campaign and did he have anything new. I sent CTV an e-mail congratulating them on allowing two real people to host their programme instead of Gidget and the way-past-expiration date Craig Oliver.

Thanks for the heads up, Mrs. Thatcher. That WAS refreshing, wasn't it? I particularly enjoyed (I can't believe I'm saying this) the Screecher's interview - not too many softballs thrown at her! She's SOOOO out of touch with what's going on in Alberta. "Western alienation" is overblown my butt.

Was channel surfing a little while ago. Came across the CBC. Screen said, "...Sorry for the Inconvenience".

What makes them think there's any inconvenience? Funny.

CTV News has a poll up regarding the effects of the CBC lockout. Highlights: 10% called it a major inconvenience; 27%, a minor inconvenience; and 61%, no impact at all.

But the stunner in the article is this - apparently, and contrary to what I have always been led to believe, the CBC is NOT for ALL Canadians but only a special elite. That 88% of us are equivocal about the lockout doesn't bother them one bit. It's only that 10% (or less) whose opinions matter.

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1125257115408_51/?hub=Entertainment

Union spokesman Arnold Amber, CBC branch president of the Canadian Media Guild, helped frame and analyse political polls years ago when the public broadcaster did its own surveys.

He dismissed the Decima results as premature and "totally meaningless.'"

"They're polling the entire population rather than the population that actually cares and listens (consistently) to the CBC," he said in an interview.

Kudos to Tim for outing the elitist nature of the billion-dollar broadcasting boondoggle. Yes, I'm now declaring the CBC a boondoggle!

Other than hockey night in Canada, it's programming is dreck, unless you like 'The road to Avonlea' and 'Trudeau' etc.

It's 'news' is diabolically biased.

It's a liberal propoganda machine.

It doesn't represent or care about the opinion of the majority of Canadians who finance it. Just the 10% committed socialists.

Kill it. Or better yet, sell what's left to Rupert Murdoch and pay the proceeds back to the taxpayers.

I occasionally tune into the CBC news or quazi news/talk, but only for short periods of time. Too much of that can grow hair on your palms.
I suppose it's the same type of motivation a child gets trying to catch a peek under the tent of the local circus side show when they used come to town for a few days each year.
The hope is to not get caught too soon and to come away giggling in disbelief of what was seen or heard under the hem of that old canvas tent. Weirdness!
After only a few minutes of peeking at whatever freak show is being presented by the ever-so intelligent hosts and guests I come away feeling relieved that this is not the norm and that few are actually watching. Those who do watch this unreal crap regularly, rarely step out of their upscale intellects and don't spend much time with real Canadians, or real people for that matter.
I usually come away feeling relieved, knowing that we can peek and have a good laugh, while keeping tabs on the enemy within through the CBC network.

The CBC strike/lockout has had no effect on me. I enjoyed a lot of the well done and witty programs on CBC radio, I don't think my television has ever been tuned to CBC. When the radio programs got too lefty, which they invariably did, I exercised my right to turn the radio off, or to another station.

I figure life is meant to amuse me, and I find great amusement in the fact that the hockey strike may be over, but it may not be televised. (Hockey is the opiate of the Canadian people)

Where else in Canada would Shelagh Rogers (the replacement feel good St. Gzowski) go for employment? CBC Radio was always Toronto-centric, and people from the rest of the country were brought in as exhibits to be ogled, so maybe Toronto will be the loser? (By the way, does this mean that I will get some of my tax money back?)

"They're polling the entire population rather than the population that actually cares and listens (consistently) to the CBC," he said in an interview."

Crap, I swallowed my gum! Don't DO that without a 'spit/monitor' warning...;)

They should be only polling those who actually view/listen to the CBC? Such a small sample size would make the poll statistically insignificant and irrelevant. Besides, we already know that Libranos watch the CBC!

The CBC?

I simply don't care.

Next item please, Kate.

And for God's sake, don't let it be Marc Emery.