The CBC is having a strike?

"The CBC is having a strike?"

Yes, but we only noticed because it affected Kid's CBC in the morning, and that leaves me with a distraught pre-schooler. We're less than a week away from having access to our DVD player again, and after that point we won't notice whether CBC is on the air, or not.

Fascinating. They blame the liberals, yet are perhaps the most responsible for keeping them in power. They bemoan the state of the cbc, yet are an integral part of the programing. They know the words of the 'Iternationale', yet blame their neo-con overseers for being out of touch. They want a journalist in power, but the one they have, has been perverted by the corporate/profit margin ethos.

I used to enjoy the cbc radio, for the simple reason that they insulted my intelligence the least. Across the bands of public radio, they had a certain cache. But that has changed of late. Some years ago they decided the demographic they apealed to were a) not our sort, and b) unsustainable. For example. they brought in Suk Yin Lee (sic?), she who once was a much music personality. They brought in two ditzts to "supplement" the Sad Goat of the afternoon. They got rid of one of the true menchs of the radio, a man who knew music back and forth and sideways, David Wisdom, for a bunch of dilattantes and wannabes. They disposed of WISDOM!

I think the last straw was the end of this last Parliment. When hell was a poppin, the 'nations radio' was talking to some guy in God knows where, about God knows what.

A last cbc anecdote. I remember one report in a news segment on a Saturday. It was a report of how cold it was in the Arctic. It was so cold see, that this guy couldn't get his ski-doo started. Because of that, he couldn't get to his job. Oh, his job? Teaching the younger folk the traditional way of life. You see I find that funny - that "why am I fighting against this maddness? don't you see the irony? am I going crazy?" type of funny. And yet it was presented in the most deadpan and grave manner.

Never was the phrase 'a plague on both their houses' more fitting.

That would be a nice change from their being a plague on our houses. When you read enough of their blogs, it becomes apparent that the locked-out CBC employees believe, from the bottom of their union hearts, that they have a fundamental right to suck the public tit in perpetuity.

The language is priceless: "the struggle continues" for "the workers". "I learned the words to Solidarity Forever. I shall hum them in my sleep" -- you'd almost think that they were being beaten by company thugs. Well, pull up a chair: They spent four hellish hours parading at the Canadian National Exhibition, with "almost nobody...to watch us go by". Even though "it was hot" and "the music was terrible", it was "better than four hours on the Circle of Death", i.e. walking around, coffee in hand, carrying a picket and demanding a perma-teat.

Could someone please explain the concept of "weaning" to these people?

Sean; they don't have the 'Showcase' channel in your neck of the woods...;)

I loved this comment, on parading through the CNE grounds on Labour Day:

"The last day of the CNE was the usual horror show. I couldn't wait to get out. It all seemed so quaint, and old fashioned. Such a waste of time and energy."

Yes - please hurry back to the Annex, or College Street. Wouldn't want to actually spend time where people who work for a living - and get paid less than CMG scale for the privilege - unwind at the end of a summer.

Nobody watched? I guess the tree falling in the forest didn't make a sound, then.

Shooting the CBC in the head to put it out of its misery and spare us its pathetic view of the world would be cruel and unjust punishment for the bullet.

Just pull the budget plug and get it over with.

Circle of Death is about the right way to describe that picket line. The network has been so incredibly out of touch with Canadians they made themselves irrelevant. I don't care if they ever settle this strike. To the guy/gal who doesn't own a house or a car. Get a new job - one that's not controled by a union pay scale and that pays well enough that you at least have those options.

A tad off topic, but not seen in MSM in our own banana republic: www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,168591,00.html

I bet Ms. Pink the tea maker blames the president for the skid marks in her undies as well. Again, we see some diaper-Dostoevsky
activist that obviously slept through basic management classes.

Blaming a CEO for the destruction a union does to the corporation is like blaming your sex ed teacher when you get yourself a dose of clap.

I would remind Ms. Pink tribe that there were no problems in the CBC before the union arrived.

When the CBC are working :) all you have to do is go by their parking lot north of portage ave in winnipeg and see that they have a lot of nice SUV's while David Suzuki prattles on about how we should walk every where.

Three million a day we save by them being on strike. A bigger tax cut than Martin gave families with Mom's and dads.

I love the self righteous letters to the ed in various MSM exclaiming the writers love of the CBC and how our nation is defined by it - it is to vomit! Todays hot flash by some striker - with the loyal Troskyite workers on strike or lockout or whatever, the CBC will get Gov't $ and no expenses ergo the Gov't should claw it back and give it to (taxpayers NO!) the stikers!

I said it before and I'll say it again.
Death to the CBC!
Death to the CBC!
Death to the CBC!
Death to the CBC!
Death to the CBC!
Death to the CBC!
Death to the CBC!
Death to the CBC!
Death to the CBC!
Death to the CBC!
Death to the CBC!
Death to the CBC!
Death to the CBC!
Death to the CBC!
Death to the CBC!
Death to the CBC!
Death to the CBC!
Death to the CBC!

I have not watched the CBC in three years, nor listen to the CBC on the radio, and I have not used the CBC web site. I have programmed the TV and the preset radio stations to skip the CBC. To block the CBC on your computer there is a file called "hosts", insert the line:

127.0.0.1 www.cbc.ca

I used to get mad at the bias the CBC has, now I just ignore it.
I only wish I could get my taxes back.

Hang in there, CBC employees. Don't listen to these people. Listen instead to the encouraging words, like those in this (for real) letter in Tuesday's Globe and Mail.

"How do I miss thee? Let me
count the ways.
I miss thee for thy depth and
breadth and height
Of worldly coverage. Without
you, my CBC, the world is
out of sight
For that offered by others
pales by comparison..."

It does go on. I hope that these words will be of comfort to all of you who walk or stand in the "Circle of Death".

As the guard dogs of culturally embedded Liberal propaganda narratives, you do have a right to permanently seal your collective lip around the copious taxpayer breast.

I mean, Joe Hill -- right?

burp!