Busharperhitler vs Canada

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Terence Corcoron quotes ultra-pure GTA distillate Jian Ghomeshi’s opening to his CBC radio show:

“Hi there. It’s Monday, January 13, 2014. Imagine a place where decades worth of scientific research and information has been systematically destroyed. Imagine a place were sensitive environmental information and cultural data is simply ‘disappeared.’ Imagine a place where invaluable journals, monographs, reports and texts are junked because they are ‘an inconvenience.’

“Well, actually, there’s no need to imagine, Canada. Because you’re living in that place.”

Corcoran:

From this hyperbole, Mr. Ghomeshi soon moved on to interview rock star Neil Young..

The Neil Young interview, Corcoran notes, “will be rebroadcast Wednesday night on The National with Peter Mansbridge.”
How do you say “Defund the CBC” in Laurentian?
Read “Fahrenheit 45.2, or how the CBC helps promote scares and confusion” here.

34 Replies to “Busharperhitler vs Canada”

  1. “How do you say “Defund the CBC” in Laurentian?”
    I’ll give it a shot.
    *ahem*
    Oink oink oink oink!

  2. The level of stupidity coming from the CBC is REVOLTING.
    DEFUND that propaganda machine!

  3. If one were to engage Jian Ghomeshi, Neil Young or anyone from the CBC in a serious discussion about math, the environment or the minimum wage, they would collapse. They know nothing about these issues nor do they care to know. They’re in it for the attention.
    It’s time to pull the plug.

  4. Despicable.
    “Invaluable” be damned. Research librarians can’t get rid of paper fast
    enough. If one has ever carried out a literature search through paper
    copies of the Physical Review ca. 1995-2005 the reasons will be obvious.
    I remember the experience well – up atop a moveable ladder, looking down
    at the floor 12 feet below, moving the massive volumes about.
    Why the CBC, who don’t read anything except for Marxist screed,
    would be exercised about the
    switch to electronic media I don’t know. Maybe they could show up at
    an astronomical observatory and lament the loss of paper there –
    professional astronomers DON’T use paper (or glass – the plates often
    were glass) and haven’t since around 1990.
    I contacted our University Librarian about this. She said that about two
    years ago the library of the local DFO contacted her about digitising
    their unique holdings – logs etc. These were not very extensive and were
    digitised and made available on line, more accessible than they had
    been in the DFO library. Most of the holdings were of commercial
    materials that were readily available.
    As for paper more generally, I knew a staff librarian in our Health
    Sciences Library who was instructed to tear up a great pile of old
    medical journals, and did so. His job for several days. I really
    thought that they might have been sent to a poorer part of the world,
    but there was no budget for that and I do appreciate that the chief
    librarian at the time was implementing a quiet solution to a difficult
    problem.
    My Head is a physical oceanographer. He does not like the preseng
    government. His view is that the shutting down of most DFO libraries
    was done somewhat insensitively and even with a touch of malice.
    However, he said that the DFO libraries had been grossly expanded
    in the 1980s without much reason, and that these libraries had been
    underutilised since then.
    Anyway, as far as libraries are concerned, electronics is the way we
    are going and electronics is the way we will go.
    Of course we scientists are fair game, for any f*****g “news” organ
    that wants to create a fuss. Next time you run into a CBCer kick it
    in the head.

  5. Jian, you’ve got it pitch perfect. Just the wrong song. Talk to real Canadians like Dr Tim Ball or Vivian Krause or Ross McKitrick or Stephen McIntyre to find out who is anti-science.

  6. One reason for electronic publications BTW is that they are superior in
    many ways to paper publications. This has been true since the advent
    of high-resolution displays in the late `80s. I remember asking one
    of our professional librarians about this. She had earned a Ph.D. in
    microbiology before moving over to library work. She compared an image
    from the hard-copy version with the electronics version of a recent
    publication. She said that the electronic version was unequivocally
    superior, superior in dealing with the subtle variations in grey scale
    which are typical of microbiological photographs.
    On a different topic, it is unfortunate that my colleagues tend to be
    somewhat left of wing. I put it down to the general atmosphere of a
    modern university, which is highly corruptive. They tend to regard
    the Arts and Humanities people as knowing something worth knowing
    (an attitude bred of old which is hard to change) and that includes
    left-wing politics. And, increasingly, they are Fach-idioten.

  7. Did somebody say something stupid on the CBC? Again?
    I wouldn’t know. I do not EVER listen to CBC radio or watch CBC tv. Ever.
    That is how the CBC will finally be killed. Canadians will ignore it to death.

  8. We don’t have to imagine it.
    It is Environment Canada.
    Where historic data is adjusted to suit the beliefs of the bureau.
    Where the minions are proud of their actions and boast about “Environment Canada’s Science”.
    Based on their promotion of CAGW, refusal to say, who accepted the IPCC reports on behalf of Canada and the pathetic state of our weather stations, I suspect it really is E.C’s science. Complete with small print disclaiming any relationship with the scientific method or science as commonly understood by taxpayers.

  9. If you’re getting your “News” from a Ministry of Information guy with hair highlights you’re an idiot.

  10. “…How do you say “Defund the CBC” in Laurentian?”
    I don’t know, so I guess Harper and I have something in common.

  11. footnote: He said “call me John” back in the day at York University.
    He’s full of himself and something else…

  13. Like CBC does not do news … Environment Canada does not do science. They record weather and take samples of water.
    Then they lie about the data and destroy what they do not want checked.
    So what’s the problem?
    BTW … remember the craze for micro-fiche? How many paper files were destroyed after the fiches were created?
    Got any idea how may fiche records have been destroyed through neglect or arbitrarily thrown out by bureaucrats? Got any idea how any functioning micro-fiche readers exist now?

  15. you git a$$holes like neil young and Pamela Anderson up on stage yapping about things they know nothing about, but Pammy is easy on the eyes, neil need a bag over the head

  16. Guess it took the CBC a while, but they finally found someone to criticise the Harper govt thats been outside of Canada longer than Iggy.

  17. Harper had the opportunity to save us a hell of a lot of wasted tax-dollars and himself a lot of grief.
    He didn’t have the guts to do it, so he deserves all the crap CBC can fling at him.

  18. A comedic column asserting the government is into ‘book burning’…gee why not just accuse them of being fascist?
    Never mind science, Corcoran and the CBC deserve a pulp fiction award.
    Cheers
    Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group “True North”

  20. “The Neil Young interview, Corcoran notes, ‘will be rebroadcast Wednesday night on The National with Peter Mansbridge.'”
    Before or after Rex Murphy? That is, will I have to wait and flick channels until Rex is on?
    Anyway, if there’s no Rex, I won’t be watching, thanks. Why inflict two tired and shopworn old acts on myself like that?
    * Mansbridge and Young. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ…

  21. Perhaps the Doom Industry and Outrage Industry will destroy itself. Surely, the saturation point has been reached for severely normal people. I think this will leave an opening for those with a positive message and practical solutions to reach people who are sick and tired of listening to the “…endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary” from both the right and the left. These imaginary hobgoblins are getting more expensive and that’s before calculating the cost of the loss of individual freedom.

  22. I haven’t used fiche in a long time. The readers gave me violent headaches. They were
    essential for organic chemistry, with literature searches through “Beilstein”.
    I have no enthusiasm for paper; though it is true that some valuable books have
    been discarded by professional librarians. I still remember my friend R, a Yaley,
    showing me a book he had picked up as discarded on his most recent visit to his
    alma mater. It was a copy of Jacobi’s work on analytical mechanics!
    It is unusual for such books to be sent immediately to a dump. Quite often they
    are sold (which is how I picked up a couple of books on archaic art from the
    Dalhousie library – or faculty will discretely be invited to come by and take
    materials of interest.

  23. How clever of you to consult a librarian about this before jumping to conclusions. Funny the CBC journalists did not think of that before writing up their story. They have taken a non-issue and twisted it into something sinister by soliciting quotes from anti-Harper cynics far removed from the actual situation. I did read something that indicated that this was a routine effort to reduce spending and that the departmental bureaucrats made the decision. These small government libraries are always on the chopping block when it comes to downsizing because hardly anyone uses them.
    Another DFO cut was related to ocean toxicology which they had for years been trying to get the Dept of the Environment to take over. Envirnment refused (for years) so — when it is time to tight the belt at DFO it is not surprise that they also cut this program. But this is wonderful fodder for CBC (5th Estate) — with not explanatory background about why the cuts happened, they decided to feature this cut in their Harper-anti-science piece. The CBC seems to know little about proper investigative journalism — and even less about integrity.

  24. Actually, I know Young has been an activist re factory farms, but I am pretty sure he did not dream up this new protest on his own. Where is his background for understanding either environmental or treaty issues? Someone is using him (as is the case with a lot of those Hollywood goons (Darryl Hanna, etc.) I believe this is one of the ways that the activist environmental groups operate. Some big shot like Tom Stayer or Al Gore would have approached Young with this idea. These folks are the useful idiots. Someone should give Young a clue.

  25. Too bad that Jian and fellow-travellers continue to call agenda-driven science fiction with actual science.

  26. Seriously. Who is this Jian Ghomeshi. I have never heard of him. But then again I avoid Toronto at all costs. Why is he important? He sounds foreign and false and, well, like an idiot.

  28. I was going to say, PMSH has held power for 7 years, a majority for the last 2 1/2.
    And where are the CBC cuts? Didn’t The blowhard James Moore publicly grouphug the webcast year, to shock and amazement?
    Yeah, if you don’t erase your enemy, you deserve the wounds.
    (No love for the celeb here, it is irrelevant, other than a media arm for the LPC)

  31. imagine having a brain so tiny that one would pay any attention to anything ghomeshi has to say.

  33. OK John, but what do you do when the electronic flavour of the month becomes obsolete? Microfiche and VHS each had useful lives of about 30 years, and DVDs will soon be historic objects. I have a large bookcase full of information saved on VHS, and I have two defunct VCRs. I was going to have the tapes transcribed, at substantial expense, onto DVDs but, with that technology now out of favour, why bother?
    I have several books printed more than a century ago. They are still readily accessible, and they don’t even require electricity. At night, a kerosene lamp would be quite adequate technology to access them.
    It’s a good thing that the ancient Babylonians, Egyptians and Greeks didn’t have access to the miracle of digital reproduction.

  34. Yes, when it came to actually making changes in this country the Conservatives decided to play politics.
    Nothing has been done the Lite One can’t and won’t make disappear with nary a nod.
    I blame it on Reefer Madness.

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