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CBC president Robert Rabinovitch has an op-ed piece in today's Globe and Mail. Here are some excerpts: … Despite the current labour dispute, management and employees at the CBC share a common vision of the Corporation's mandate and mission — hardly surprising, since most of today's managers came up through the ranks as working journalists [...]
Tue, August 30 2005 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
The Toronto Star ran two op-eds on Monday, one defending the CBC, the other saying let's keep the $987 million in our pockets. Here's pro-CBC one: Canada became what it is by developing institutions that promote our identity, says Richard Nimijean And here's the anti one: Were we not Canadians before the very appearance of [...]
Tue, August 30 2005 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
Carl Wilson offered up a reply to Warren Kinsella's broadside against him in a Zoilus posting entitled O Kinsella, where is thy sting? On his blog, Kinsella lobbed back a few insults, but didn't bother explaining why he sought a lunch date with Wilson to talk music if he thought the guy was such a putz [...]
Tue, August 30 2005 » Main Page, Minutiae » Comments Off
Wow. In just over two years, more journos have died in Iraq than did during the entire Vietnam War. An excerpt from the Reuters story carried by globeandmail.com: More journalists have been killed in Iraq since the war began in March, 2003, than during the 20 years of conflict in Vietnam, media rights group Reporters [...]