Can you imagine the huge flood of job applications coming in at the National Inquirer?

Aside from not wanting to give Bush credit, this may also explain why the U.S. media kept reporting the economic sky was falling despite great GDP, unemployment numbers.

Their little world is crumbling, and they just don't see, or care to see, that the rest of us are doing just fine.

So when do we see job cuts at the CBC?

The way the Tories have been acting lately, we'll probably see them get a funding increase . . .

The news paper industry is going paperless and selling on line subscriptions...a lot of job loss in in the print rooms of large national broadsheets.

All the same I dream of reading about this type of job cuts at CBC ;-)

Me too! Slash the jobs at CBC and CTV. Oh! early retirement for Peter, Lloyd, Craig and Giggles; that would be sweet. (Thats without a senate seat.)

I was disturbed to hear, BTW, that the new head of the CRTC seems to have his sights set on the internet. Just what we need in Canada, now that we're free of the left-wing regulators who've ruled the content and flow of information for far too long.

All the excuses for the job cuts, but not one word about changing editorial policy to get rid of their biases and start telling the truth and both sides of a story. Would that get readers and viewers back, or is it way too late for that.
The question is, have class sizes been cut in journalism schools, and do these students know there might not be a job for them.

what I want to see is the headline '88 % of the REST of the msm liberals TURFED because their LIES were exposed in the blogosphere'

not just an 88% increase in the pace of layoffs.

yo, cbc mandarins, its called 'handwriting is on the wall'. whatchagonnadoaboutit???

No, let's not retire Peter, Lloyd, Craig, Giggles, Van Deusen and others. Let's put them in the "free market" and see if they can raise their own money because of their excellent journalistic skills.

do these students know there might not be a job for them.

I doubt they care, no job means more time for the Xbox, playstation etc.; 2-4 years of indoctrination leads them to believe the first function of government is to provide for their living.

Well said, "anonymous at January 27, 2007 10:38 AM"!

Maybe, with their awesome professional skill sets, they could find positions on some high school newspaper. Of course, they'd have to beat out Dan Rather and Mary Mapes...

The CRTC tried to regulate the internet before. Of course, under the Liberals, they spent millions studying the situation in order to discover there wasn't a damn thing they could do.

Job layoffs are a nice warmup, though I'm looking forward to the day that Torstar declares bankruptcy.

I was disturbed to hear, BTW, that the new head of the CRTC seems to have his sights set on the internet. Just what we need in Canada, now that we're free of the left-wing regulators who've ruled the content and flow of information for far too long.

You'll have to take my broadband connection from my cold dead hand Mr. Gore, even though you did invent the internet.

Nobody likes being lied to. The MSM is being exposed, day by day.

Understand that, Canadian MSM types? I converted another surprised "average Canadian" to the blogosphere this week. People will escape from the Canadian MSM spin machine. You brought this on yourselves.

At least we know our progressive headline writer has been unsullied by the reactionary academic discipline of mathematics.

When the dust eventually settles every one of you will know full well that it is all Bush's fault. If he had not stole the elections from both Gore and Kerry then the MSM would have enjoyed full employment, and the blogosphere would have failed. That IS a reasonable assertion. No? AHA! Then define *reasonable*... Or is it depending on what the definition of 'is' is...

Oh well. If none of that makes sense then makes no matter; take solace in the fact that it IS all Bush's fault. The MSM says so.

Predictions for November, 2008: Unemployment in US, 3.5%. Unemployment in the MSM sector, 47%.
Headlines in LA & NY Times: THE SKY IS FALLING:CONSERVATIVE BLOGOSPHERE ALL BUSH'S FAULT

ah well, there's so much "easy money" to be made in Fort McMurray, it'll make all that tough slogging they've done for so long look like boot camp.

not that they know what "boot camp" is really about either.

At first I thought the figure too high. Than I started looking at papers from all over the States & Canada's.

I checked the ones I looked at with the subscription numbers to the papers archives of the past few years. I found its worse than we even can even envisage for this bunch.

Its become winter for these publications who have lied, deceived, or covered up heinous crimes for political reasons. Those who have ignored the corruption in their midst for sensational by lines. The groups that have Ignored the real pestilences of the time like socialism, & promoted all the degenerate doctrines of this mental illness.

They became acolytes themselves at this alter of moral relevance called progressivism .

The rotten fruit is falling to the ground with the cold winds blowing from the Web. Culling in this their dying season. With the rest of these poisonous pustules filled with falsehoods, spitting innuendos with a snakes strike of antagonism at the public itself. Filled with the zeal of a convert to a cult, not facts. As with any dangerous beast people learn to stay away, or shoot the varmints on sight. In this case it’s the blogs like Kate’s checking their predation.

They have allowed by their prejudices, the lack of civilization maintenance of society by smoke screens. Truth or any objectivity discarded. People sense this like they would an axe murder at their back. It not only does not pass the smell test, its become a noxious odor in & of its self.

So I feel no pity for those affected. This ice age was of their making. It will do some good for most to again become part of the real world of work , with its earthly requirements. Time the slag of journalism past be refined, so that only the truth tellers are left for the most part.

As for those Journalist who have gone online & joined in the peoples right to veracity. They have a greening time of a new spring. Those that adhere to a well known opinion ,or a real independence. Will grow with the speed of life during the Northern thaw when April breaks its grip from winters stasis.

Mark Steyn, Malkin, Laura Ingram, with a multitude of many others, including all the blogs. Have found this out by presenting reality based opinion, instead of fabrication by political or social agenda. Its why conservatives have splits in policy with varying stances on issues.

Liberals & socialists only divide over how fast to execute their meddling ways. It never transpires to the socialist brain, that the very meddling could be the problem. The day’s of cloaks room journalism will melt faster than wicked witch of Oz under the waters of million tons of common people able to express their views.

I just hope the accomplishments of these social bellwethers does not impair their judgment in the future. By faction or ego.

When will the MSM stop thinking themselves the gods of information when these types of hemorrhages occur? Is anyone’s guess.

This is the Decease of the old school of journalism & its socialist puppets. Should have happen years ago.

Still there is much work to do educating people that they DO in fact have access to more than they can conjure up online. Facts they can check for themselves . Giving one the control of the information you need as an individual to make correct judgments on subjects. If not a feeling of freedom.

Just my opinion

Why not get rid of the rest of them? 28,000 replaced by a handful of bloggers! It should be a lesson in efficiency. Also, it is refreshing to finally have access to truth in the "news". I really appreciate and rely on the blogs for the truth. It takes more work to filter out the liars (as oppossed to MSM where most are liars); at least there is hope.

"Oh! early retirement for Peter, Lloyd, Craig and Giggles; that would be sweet. (Thats without a senate seat.)

Posted by: MaryM at January 27, 2007 10:11 AM"

At least in the case of Lloyd and Peter, "early" is the wrong adjective. I would characterize their retirement as "long overdue".

BTW, has anybody seen Peter since the "secret tar sands document" smear was outed?

At least we know our progressive headline writer has been unsullied by the reactionary academic discipline of mathematics.
Posted by: Jared

I wondered how long it was going to take for someone to pick up on the "innumeracy" ...

whoda thunk it.

law of unintended consequences.

whoda thunk a digital communications system designed and initiated in the depths of the cold war, with the purpose of multiple paths for the information, with no 'central hub' that would take it down if hit by a Bomb, developed with large participation from university researchers who then added themselves to the

arpanet.

which became the internet which gave birth to the graphic interface www.

and now, overnight, it is demolishing the centuries old house of cards called MSM.

hubba hubba.

Im so grateful I am here to see it happen.

I salute you and congratulate you Kate for being a not insignificant part of that process.

the truth will out. W Shakespeare.

That's like ads I've seen like "object B takes up 400% less space than object A". If it took up 100% less space, it would take up no space at all. What they really mean is B takes 1/4 the space of A, which is 75% less, not 400%. But advertisers know they have to give 125% , or their efforts are, like 1000% for nothing.

felic c....I've been asking the same thing:
WHERE IS PETER MANSBRIDGE???
I don't watch the CBC National...but I have been making a point to check it online all this week...he is conspicuosly absent...
So is the Holmes-Dion connection story.

Media jobs slashed 88% my how nice. I guess they will use off shore people; just tell them what you want and they will invent it. No different than now, only more of it. Truth has no bearing on any subject.

Seems the MSM's shareholders have (finally) discovered there's a fairly limited market for Left leaning BS. Taking steps to cut back on their over capacity for BS production may keep them in the media game for a while longer.

Darn, I was so looking forward to watching that run away MSM freight train hit the wall at full speed. Just think of all that nice office furniture hitting the used market all at once! Ebay bonanza!

Now its going to dribble on in penny packets as they close down one office at a time. [pout!]

Apparently the headline writer studied from the seminal text "How to Count Good".

At least we know our progressive headline writer has been unsullied by the reactionary academic discipline of mathematics.
Posted by: Jared

To be fair, I doubt many of their readers (or many of the readers here for that matter) would notice the error, or even understand it if it was pointed out to them. It never fails to amaze me how bad the average persons understanding of mathematics is.