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Locked-Out Journalists Turn To Podcasting
An anonymous reader writes "An Interesting Canadian Press article is up on the Macleans website discussing locked out union journalists podcasting to stay on the air. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation locked out 5,500 unionized employees Aug. 15 over a contract dispute. Most of those walking the picket line are radio, TV and internet journalists and technicians. In the last few days, they've been cranking out podcasts - locked out folks in Fredericton, New Brunswick; Regina, Saskatchewan; Vancouver, British Columbia and other cities have all participated. Some have 'real news', music and interviews. Others are more propaganda-like. A whole batch of them are at www.cbcunplugged.com."
Some have 'real news', music and interviews. Others are more propaganda-like.
So basically it's no different than your normal CBC broadcast.
[rim shot]
Thank you.. I'll be here all week.
I'm in Fredericton, and I can see them out my appartment. They get a lot of honks from cars passing by, thats how they keep my attention, errrrr....
Am I the only one who mistaked this for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting?
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am I the only one who read "Locked-Out Journalists Turn To Procrasting"
I think we can keep recursing like this until someone returns 1
Turning a large group of professionals loose with a medium like this would make me very nervous if I owned a TV station! :)
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"Destroy science and religion. Science would re-emerge exactly the same; but not religion." - Penn Jillette, paraphrased
this is just further proving that podcasting is enhancing free speech
I don't know why, but I hate the buzz word "podcasting". It's streaming audio, and it was streaming audio years before the blog generation even discovered it existed. I'm still amazed by people's reactions when I tell them the ambient music in my apartment is being streamed from an online radio station from shoutcast.
1. Create a mp3
2. Put it on a website
3. ???
4. Postcast podpod castpost castpod!
A good friend of mine works with the cbc, and trust me, they want to work! Its especially depressing to see here in nothern New Brunswick since on the same street in Bathurst, there are also hotel workers on strike, nurses and healthcare workers on strike, and a mill that just shut down with a days notice, laying off about 500 people just down the road.
Two words: firefox + adblock
Good thing too, you don't want those un-ionized employees going about stealing everybody's ions.
I wonder where they were locked though... In a Faraday cage, maybe?
One of the funniest things I've read about the lockout is how the CFL broadcasts have improved their ratings since they've gone play-by-playless.
Or get a browser that doesn't run slow as molasses. CoughOperaCough
"Quoting yourself is stupid." -Me
They need to totally redo that website. Right now it's definitely got a "we're mad, and we're podcasting" feel to it. I thought, hey, let's see what the journalists are reporting about! Maybe they're some creative people who've been locked out! Let's listen to them. And the message I got was "We're mad, and we're podcasting."
They've missed the important point: you have to podcast about something. You can't just podcast. Look at the links on the right -- do you see all the journalists? All listed right there. Hey! They're podcasting! Yes, but what the frack are you podcasting about? It's like looking at a TV guide that says:
7pm: Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping
8pm: Joe Flanigan, David Hewlett
9pm: Edward James Olmos, Katee Sackhoff
which, if you're not already fans of Stargate and Battlestar Galactica, gives you no information and doesn't compel you to watch the show.
Working in tandem with the un-ionized journalists they will canada the first plasma screen visable from space. But they still won't have anything to say.
We are all just people.
I too am also in Fredericton, here is the link to the local blog on the issue: http://frederictonguild.blogspot.com/ What caused this lockout is this, the management wants to bust the union and be able to hire contract/short term workers for half the salary or less than that of current workers. The current workers are not fighting for more money, but for job security, for themselves and new people comming into the workplace. Its the same thing that happened to a lot of industries/companies in the 90's. What irks me the most, is that this is paid for by TAXPAYERS! They have been simulcasting the BBC news in the place of CBC news, and now that the workers at the BBC have found out, they are furious, as this says that they support the lockout, which they do not! Its low, and underhanded management that are trying to make a profit on a taxpayer based system.
When the NHL players were locked out, we got to see decent movies every Saturday night.
Now that the CBC reporters are locked out, the quality of CBC programming has improved immensely.
I love it!
Any Slashdot story mentioning Canada or Canadians always results in less than 259 comments, so why bother posting them? They're about on par with response to games.slashdot.org.
A quick search of Slashdot with the word Canada brings up 9 Canadian stories in the last two months alone (2 are sort of multinational) that have greater than 259 comments.
Instead of bitching about it, I suggest you simply don't click on Canadian-related stories.