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kamomilThis crap makes me ill. How are these "serious journalists" stooping to this kind of stuff?
Tod Maffin Blog
Locked-out CBC Radio workers in Vancouver will record a one-hour program from the picket line, and five radio stations have now agreed to carry the broadcast.
"Radio Zero" will start at 11 a.m. and it will include music, comedy, commentary, and the latest news in the labour dispute. Several local independant musicians have signed on to play on the show and entertain passerbys at noon.
Among the highlights expected:
Fuck you guys and your streetcorner weather report. I'm dusting off the shortwave radio and tuning around the dial. I heard some NPR station from Buffalo in my car; and it's a little more journalistic and a little less hoity-toity than the CBC. Thanks for coming out!
Oh and another thing:
more crap
Their union, the Canadian Media Guild, says if workers volunteer to work ten hours a week on the site, they need only walk the picket-line half the usual amount to qualify for strike pay (about $240).
How about getting those fuckers back to work with fair conditions? What kind of fucking union pays people to go back to work, to spite the company they work for, for less wages (ie for strike pay) than what they are fighting for? Such fucking crap. This is why union leaders lead unions, and journalists do reporting, and why managers manage, because when the union leaders and journalists manage, I guess this is what happens: everyone loses sight of the goal.
I should really take![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
welovethecbc off my friends list because this is making my blood boil.
Tod Maffin Blog
Locked-out CBC Radio workers in Vancouver will record a one-hour program from the picket line, and five radio stations have now agreed to carry the broadcast.
"Radio Zero" will start at 11 a.m. and it will include music, comedy, commentary, and the latest news in the labour dispute. Several local independant musicians have signed on to play on the show and entertain passerbys at noon.
Among the highlights expected:
- Ian Hanomansing on the loss of a Canadian publicly broadcast supper hour show
- Bill Richardson on picket line couture (commentary)
- Curt Petrovich on the term "labour disruption"
- Tetsuro Shigamatu and Lyne Barnaby of Radio-Canada will introduce the live music acts
- I'll report on the blogs and web sites keeping people informed about both sides of the dispute
- Steve Lus will be doing the weather (reporting on the condition on each corner of the block) ;-)
Fuck you guys and your streetcorner weather report. I'm dusting off the shortwave radio and tuning around the dial. I heard some NPR station from Buffalo in my car; and it's a little more journalistic and a little less hoity-toity than the CBC. Thanks for coming out!
Oh and another thing:
more crap
Their union, the Canadian Media Guild, says if workers volunteer to work ten hours a week on the site, they need only walk the picket-line half the usual amount to qualify for strike pay (about $240).
How about getting those fuckers back to work with fair conditions? What kind of fucking union pays people to go back to work, to spite the company they work for, for less wages (ie for strike pay) than what they are fighting for? Such fucking crap. This is why union leaders lead unions, and journalists do reporting, and why managers manage, because when the union leaders and journalists manage, I guess this is what happens: everyone loses sight of the goal.
I should really take
welovethecbc off my friends list because this is making my blood boil.
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Date: 2005-08-22 06:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-08-22 03:47 pm (UTC)I'm not torn up about the missing radio thing as much as about unions! I'm glad I don't work at the CBC, only because of the periodic strikes. I didn't even bother trying to get a co-op for college there, sure enough, one classmate's co-op was interrupted by a strike.
Also where our taxpayer dollars go. We ALL pay for the CBC, if I'm not mistaken. All that quirky programming don't come for free. The fact that there is a strike, says to me, that someone is mishandling all those hard-earned tax dollars. Almost half of my income goes to the tax man. NPR is listener-supported, also no doubt by corporate donation. I wouldn't mind having some say where my CBC money goes. I would rather write out a cheque to PBS than the cable company.