“As a 20-something unknown, my first weekly column (at the Toronto Star) had paid $200. Having since written a book and developed a national profile I’d replied that I couldn’t accept less money a decade later. Advised that Quebecor was unable to afford my counteroffer of $500, I’d smiled and said ‘thanks, but no thanks.’
Looking uncomfortable, Kory assured me that those were the bad old days. Matters were different now.
I told him I’d think about it.“
h/t Fred
Holy crappola!! I thought we would be hearing more about SunTV by now. I would really like to hear more about Atwood’s role in this. How in he!!’s bells do we counter this holy entrenched elite (short of establishing a new country west of the Manitoba border. You pick which Manitoba border.
With an attitude like that, I wouldn`t want anything to do with her.
It’s shocking, isn’t it. I had the feeling something was amiss … we’ve heard nothing lately about this new venture. I hope they change their mind about Donna. That debut column she had planned… ‘David Suzuki Is A Drama Queen’ … is about as Un-CBC as you could ask for.
Louise, here is Brian Lilley’s report
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Politics/2010/09/01/15216771.html
I wrote about it as NewsRealblog as well, but I hesitate to link to the post as it inspired Soros to threaten to sue me 🙂
“I hope they change their mind about Donna”
Me too, she’s honest and principled. She could have had a much wider profile by now if she didn’t insist on writing politically incorrect opinions.
Who is gagging Sun media?
Lilley is doing a great job.
Wish Kory would speak up.
atric…???
Did you read the whole thing?
The Quebecor project won’t get off the ground. And if it does, it will fail. Sun TV this fall, such as it is, is a shadow of what it was, which isn’t saying much. Quebecor is a dead horse in the Canadian media game and has been steadily failing for years.
I knew about the stuff in that story, Kathy. That’s more than two months ago now. When SunTV first made the news, they were talking January as a start-up date. That’s less than two months away, now. I realized they’ve encountered few bumps, deliberately thrown in their way, but that should be considered par for the course, no? Or, has the unholy alliance (Atwood/Soros and Co.) shot them out of the water? Would it not help them (SunTV) to report on their progress and/or on any underhanded attempts to sabotage their initiative? Is anyone, anywhere going to restore our basic right to freedom of expression?
Bluetech,I did. I still think she’s full of herself.
JMO
Conrad Black has all those millions that he could put to good use. Why can’t he contact Kory T and start the ball rolling on a similar project like SunTV and forget about Quebecor. Call the new project something like The CBC = Conrad Black’s Canada. :}
Truth be told, I have no faith in anything that comes out of Quebec… even the stocks of companies there languish in the doldrums forever.
I liked what I read from Donna. She should get some sort of a compensation from Quebecor… the pussies.
This sad – I will be waiting with interest to hear who neutralized the Quebecor initiative and how.
SUN News has a ‘suggest personalities’ spot. I’m going to use it to suggest Donna.
It’s here:
http://www.suntvnews.ca/sun-personalities/
As a pro artistE performer, I only very rarely get gigs (because I’m in school and that comes first) because I charge hundreds of dollars more than my nearby undercutters who are willing to work for stupidly low amounts.
That’s the problem with us who try to work in the fancy artsy sector. There are always ten others who are willing to work for pennies just to get exposure and because they love to do it.
The biggest problem is that some of them are as good as and better than me. I lose gigs because I cost a lot but those who hire me, hire me again at the same cost because I charge what I’m worth.
After all… people die of exposure.
I admire Donna for not giving in.
Harlan Ellison — Pay the Writer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj5IV23g-fE
While I have some sympathy for how things turned out for Donna, and I’m annoyed that an effective SunTV seems to be circling the drain (I think?), making financial plans and assumptions without a signed contract in hand strikes me as being a rather silly rookie mistake. YMMV.
Making financial decisions without a written offer is just foolish. Verbal agreements aren’t worth squat.
In today’s N.P. Black’s commentary on the US mid-terms is, as usual very perceptive, but he insists on in calling G. W. Bush “unlamented” and “inexpressibly irritating”. One begins to wonder if Conrad isn’t still pissed that he didn’t get a presidential pardon, before Bush left the scene. I don’t think he gave any multimillionaires clemency for anything (unlike Bill Clinton).
safety forced: the same technology that enables me to communicate with you has lowered the bar of entry for many fields.
“Back in the day” I was a quite good and innovative draftsman. Then CAD became ubiquitous and my skills were largely replaced by the computer. “Back in the day”, demonstrated skill and talent were needed to become a draftsman. Now, not so much.
This situation is only going to get worse (or better, depending on your viewpoint), as “smarter systems” are developed. This necessarily means more “top-down” mechanisms and unfortunately greater opportunity for central control.
Is there no Canadian dream the left leaves unsullied, despoiled, or rancid?
NO idea others can have except there nightmare of Puritanical Political correctness, with its festering Nihilism, relativism & bigotry by self righteousness?
I figured this is the way the SUN would go.
Have you read them latley? Particularly pay attention to the Editorials.
Its become just another liberal rag, with a false conservative front to suck in that market.
That they survive in Toronto, says it all.
Oh well, stopped watching the tube 3 years ago now.
JMO
Piperpaul: That’s sad to hear that but you’ve opened up a whole new realm of things for me to think about when I find the time to expand my business planning.
Seems the global warming con and it’s Canadian evangelist Reverend Soo-zoo-Kee are tabo subjects with SunTV’s owner.
Is there no corporate media that has not been co-opted bt AGW’s finance elites?