Blacklock’s- Media Unfair, Say CBC Execs
“Very disappointing and frustrating,” wrote Chuck Thompson, CBC chief of staff to the executive vice president. Thompson in an August 12 email complained media “gave us no time” to justify yearly bonuses worth $14.9 million.
If they had a year instead of “no time” … how would their response be different?
If they had a year until the next Conservative Gov’t defunded their media firm, would they do anything different?
There is no justification. Bonuses are intended to be linked to profits. They do not belong in the public sector. Public servants are well paid and any “top up” is inappropriate, an abuse of the public purse.
Perhaps Just Bins will give them the time? Bwa-ha-ha! Ridiculous…
Those poor executives suffering so much due to the evil media. They must go on medical leave immediately. I believe a government program like maid might do them a world of good.
Given the loss of viewers they should have forfeited a portion of their salaries instead of getting bonuses. Bonuses not tied to performance are not bonuses but gifts. They should be all getting a tutorial on how to freshen up their CVs.
They’d be a lot more disappointed if I punched their fckn lights out.
CBC subsidy is $1400 per viewer.
They should just sensds $140 to each viewer in cash not to watch the network. A 90% saving – no complaints.
Send each viewer a bill for $1400 and a $200 watch fee.
Rinse and repeat each year.
How dare the other media deal in “facts.”
We must be given the opportunity to spin those “facts.”
THAT is what True Journalism is all about – spin, and giving our superior interpretation of things.
Can’t let the plebes be informed by mere “facts” without us to interpret, spin, and nuance events.
Hey CBC – this is precisely why almost nobody watches you anymore – you are so offended by facts, and prefer your spin and propaganda.
Just spend your 30 pieces on your crappy adornments in your tony condos and shut the fook up you pathetic failures at real life. I bet that your cats hate you. Metro retardo skanks. Go buy some hard cover books written by GG award winners, and grab a ticket for the next liberal fundraiser dinner to watch the Turd hand out some left over friendship bracelets, or whatever the limp wrist has to offer.
Cbc would never reveal what the annual salary of bingo caller Slaphead Mansbridge was when he was chief anchor. It was generally thought to be in the million dollar range.
Salaries at the corpse are far in excess of industry standards. Cbc continually slaps the face of the taxpayer. It’s correction time for the cbc. They have it coming and it’s long past due.
So go ahead and whine about how your fellow journos didn’t give you time to explain your excessive bonus. It won’t be long before you’ll have lots of time on your hands.
Mansbidge was located in a mall in Saskatchewan as an announcer, he has a high school education and was hired simply because of his voice. How many of those do you think are at the CBC
Wally, let’s be accurate in our reporting:
Mansbridge worked as a ticket agent for Transair at Churchill Airport in Churchill, Manitoba. In 1968, Mansbridge was discovered by Gaston Charpentier, a station manager for the local Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) radio station CHFC, when he heard Mansbridge making a flight announcement.
Does this mean Mansbridge will be cast out on an ice float Inuit style one day?
Media “gave them no time” to justify yearly bonuses worth $14.9 million? There is NO justification for $14.9 million in bonuses to executives who lose $1.4 billion per year!
Perhaps not as egregious as CBC executives but postal workers striking for more money from Canada Post, which lost three quarters of a billion dollars last year, is getting there. I’ve been trying for two weeks to mail a birthday card to my grandson for his birthday in January but USPS is still not accepting any mail to Canada. I had to try to mail it at the Post Office since I needed a global stamp. They sold me the stamp but wouldn’t take the card. I asked what would happen if I just put it in the mail box and was told it would show up back in mine the next day. How long does it take to clear a backlog? Keep calling they said.
The mail here has started to flow. USPS will catch on eventually.
As the old saw goes: “The Americans can always be trusted to do the right thing, once all other possibilities have been exhausted. “
I imagine this has nothing to do with USPS. Canada Post has asked them to hold mail until they clear backlog. Otherwise what would USPS care?
I have actually worked in businesses in which the justifications for giving out bonuses had to be worked out BEFORE giving out bonuses. “Why not?” was never a strong argument.
Lies take time.