For the past year I have been dying to get back to CBC Radio. I listened to it in Korea via the internet (the time change meant I could listen to CBC Overnight regularly - a life's dream fulfilled) but it was never quite the same. Now, here I am back in Canada and the CBC is locked out. Nooooooo!
I can't believe it...no Mary Lou Findlay, no Shelagh Rogers or Anna Maria Tremonti (and no Samira Hussain). Just as the hockey dispute gets settled we are facing a season without Don and Ron. Peter Mansbridge is no where to be found. Where am I going to get my news?! If you think I'm going to turn to CTV and watch that plastic mannequin man, you've got another thing coming.
I understand the position that the union is taking. Regularly having CBC employees on contracts is wrong. Some contracts are good, but when nationally recognized and awarded journalists are living contract to contract, something has to change. The CBC needs some help...mostly financially but also from Canadians. Canadians have a tendency to take things for granted. The CBC is our national treasure. It unites us and entertains us. It keeps us informed without all the animations, scare tactics and explosive diatribes of the news shows beamed from down south. And Peter Mansbridge is hot.
Even Margaret Wente agrees with me.
Write to Paul and get him to give the CBC more money...maybe that way I can get a job there...or at the very least, a contract.
1 comment:
If the CBC isn't back for the start of the hockey season (not that far away now), my boyfriend is going to lose it.
I used to watch Newsworld all day at work, and while I appreciate getting to watch BBC World News I'm not about to sit there watching documentary reruns all day. That said I've been choosing Antiques Roadshow over CTV NewsNet.
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