We leaked these documents because we thought it would spark a discussion worth having. We leaked these documents because we thought people should read them, and because we wanted to hear what you thought about them. And we wanted Cathy Perry and Jennifer McGuire to hear what you thought, too.
And I linked them for the schadenfreude. Because, God knows they stopped hearing what their (former) audience thinks a long time ago.
“The survey revealed that 90 per cent of the reporters feel that the ‘radio culture’ is much worse than it was a year ago, many of them felt that the storytelling ideals of depth, intelligence, and investigation were disappearing under the news integration process.”
Radio culture MUCH WORSE than it was a year ago? So you mean CBC has gone from “The Shits” to “The Absolute Shits.”
Depth, intelligence, and investigation WERE disappearing?
Management should get on this problem immediately. An emergency one week “brainstorming retreat” by the involved CBC senior executives and their significant others at one of TO’s finest hotels should be of the highest priority.
The CBC has for its whole life served as a ministry of truth for the the lunatic left, now things are beyond their ability to manipulate they are beginning to worry.No doubt they wish for the good old days when LIEBERALS had a lock on government and they only had to repeat the same BS year after year.Staffers at CBC are competing for job security the same as everyone else,oh the unfairness of it all.
Send them all to Iceland. maybe they will find the real truth why the volcano erupted.
Well if it is the same problem the government is having it is not hard to find. Too many layers of management. Too many people with degrees in those jobs that have never done any real job. Those have no real job so they must create one involving underlings but you have pretty much run out of them. So put the underlings under another layer until abslolutely can’t work. Task the same people to ‘fix’ it when they are being ingored anyway.
As a fellow former audience member I concur with Kate. I hung on as long as I could. I stopped watching CBC TV years ago and stopped listening to Radio One when they started tinkering with the “Morningside” format. However I liked to wake up to the classical music on Radio Two. Then the brain trust in Toronto decided that CBC Radio Two should be a voice for those Canadian ‘artists’ who aren’t good enough to make it on the commercial radio so I have stopped listening to Radio Two. About the only time I stop listening to CKUA now is when they broadcast the CBC news.
Have you ever turned to CBC radio late Sunday night when driving? Ever wondered how many highway deaths those “sweater voices” are responsible for?
The CBC has become an OP-ED infomercial transmitter funded by tax dollars. They are unearned revenue streams.
I wish my business could have that kind of backing…but then again I would become lazy, arrogant, unresponsive to outside pressure and market trends, (did I say arrogant?) and filled with self importance.
On second thought, I need an open, free-market economy to keep my training current, trying new products to build upon the hard work already invested in my business and being open to the changing landscape of the 21st century.
By reading most of the comments after the story, almost all of the responders wanted things to just stay the same as they always have been at the CBC. No forward thinking there! Change is hard!!!
Joe it is funny that you should bring up the CKUA story here now,I was living in Edmonton when CKUA lost their provincial funding in the mid 90s.To their credit the people at CKUA where able to continue on despite this considerable disadvantage.The same standard should be applied to the CBC since it really is not any different than other public radio stations other than the fact they are shameless advocates for all things left leaning.Public broadcasting here and stateside seem to have similar programing and political leanings but the time has come for Cdn. leftys to pay for their own entertainment corp.
Kate, Way. To. Go.
Up until a decade ago I was a fan of Morningside, As It Happens, Hourly Newscasts, Ideas, The National.
I only occasionally take note now to see which advertisers to boycott.
They changed something?
Like what did they do, capitalize marxist to read Marxist?
It must have been while I wasn’t watching (1979 to present).
For 25 years it was CBC radio for morning wakes up. No more. Podcasts. John Batchelor’s are very informative.
Kate.
I sometimes turn on CBC late at night when driving truck.
The agitation helps keep me awake. 😀
Privatize the damned thing. Let them compete for an audience. That’ll sink ’em overnight.
I agree Louise, they’ve touted themselves as ‘professionals’ and should be, given that excessive yearly budget. So now that they’re all well trained thanks to public funds, we should be able to cut the apron strings and let them fly off…
These people remind me of the British aristocracy before WWI. Haughty with decadence. Lost in the opium dreams of Fabian Socialism.
JMO
I get all my Canadian news right here at sda; I also read links and Jack’s Newswatch. I, like Ron in kelowna, occasionally listen to a CBC ad so I can inform that ad company why I will not buy their product.
You know, Jema, the funny thing is that CBC hasn’t figured out that they can’t compete with all the millions of goodies on the Internet.