Archive for May, 2009
Jennifer Wells wins award for Stursberg profile
Sunday, May 24th, 2009Journalist Jennifer Wells has won a National Newspaper Award in the arts and entertainment category for her profile of Vice-President of CBC English Services Richard Stursberg (June 28, 2008). See the announcement here: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/globe-wins-six-national-newspaper-awards/article38848/ The Globe and Mail still has the article on their web site here. We reprint it here for convenience. Jun 28, 2008 Source [...]
POLLARA public opinion survey shows high support for CBC
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009POLLARA public opinion survey on Canadians’ views on the CBC: KEY FINDINGS Briefing Note from Ian Morrison, FRIENDS’ Spokesperson May 19, 2009 FRIENDS commissioned POLLARA to survey a random sample of 3,361Canadians 18 year of age or older. The results are considered accurate to +/- 1.69% nineteen times out of twenty. The resulting data were [...]
Protect our national treasure
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009[Prime Minister Stephen Harper] also ignored a unanimous House of Commons committee recommendation that “in the interests of fuller accountability and arm’s length from government, nominations to the CBC board should be made by a number of sources, and the CBC president should be hired by and be responsible to the board (Lincoln Report page 567).”
CBC is “on a fool’s errand” – Wade Rowland
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009This incredible piece of writing by Wade Rowland (from about 10 months ago) clearly articulates why Richard Stursberg & Co. are “on a fool’s errand.” An in depth analysis that shows how, in commercial media companies, listeners and viewers are the product that is delivered to advertisers, and that the CBC simply has no business being involved in that arrangement with advertisers. To quote from the article: ‘We can contrast that with the mission statement proposed for the BBC by its celebrated founding director, John Reith, writing in 1924. The role of a public broadcaster like the BBC, he said, was to “bring into the greatest possible number of homes … all that is best in every department of human knowledge, endeavour and achievement.”’