"Menzies said the fundamental problem with the CBC is that it’s not so much a public broadcaster as it is a publicly funded commercial broadcaster that is competing with private news organizations for eyeballs and advertising dollars."
Here's my plan for the #CBC in the age of streaming. Keep #RadioCanada as is. Keep the news. #Telefilm becomes the home for funding new video; the #NFB produces videos in house and CBC TV becomes the distributer.
#CBCRadio as is; #RadioCanada as is; CBC News as is [0]; #CBC TV as a repertory broadcaster, more like #PBS; CBC Internet as a repository of Canadian taxpayer-subsidised videos.
No more direct competition with private networks for viewers and advertising; no more US game shows; no more CBC Sports; no quest to create a new hit show that also vaunts the Canadian identity.
[0] Maybe a few minutes on the hour every hour on CBC TV, similar to CBC Radio?
Making the best of a bad plan. Is an advanced society characterized by putting itself into calamity, or by identifying and leveraging the most propitious circumstances?
What general chooses the worst terrain, or farmer the worst land, or city seating itself in the midst of a desert, or perched on a cliff, or in the middle of a river bed?
Humanity does know how to prosper in tiny groups; that was standard for most of our history
I'll live post what I can of the rest of the day's #TrumpTrial, but I'm utterly exhausted.
We've packed up most of the house (moving May 26), which did me in, even though we've gone so slowly. But all the lifting, sorting, etc, takes it out of me regardless.
We're still packing more today, plus a showing, so I'll be in and out.
A fresh reminder that conservatives are inhuman ghouls. If that sounds nasty, consider what they argue for. They should be called such until they demonstrate otherwise.
It is a pity that Sotomayor cannot simply say, “housing first eliminates this problem, you ghouls”. The pilot in the US demonstrated it, and Finland embraced it. Homelessness has all but disappeared.
Alvin Ailey is one of the most important choreographers in the history of modern dance.
In 1958 at just 27years old he founded the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater
Today, we mourn the loss of a journalism legend. #RobertMacNeil passed away at the age of 93. His contributions to the field were immeasurable, and his legacy will continue to inspire generations to come.
His impact lives on in the archive where nearly 15,000 episodes of the #PBS#NewsHour and its predecessor programs, including The Robert MacNeil Report, The MacNeil/Lehrer Report, and The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, are preserved: https://americanarchive.org/special_collections/newshour
PBS broadcast a tribute to Elton John and Bernie Taupin last night. The night's highlight was a performance of "I'm Still Standing" by Joni Mitchell, with backing vocals from Annie Lennox and Brandi Carlile. Introducing Mitchell's cover, Carlile says: "She was given the green light by Elton and Bernie to change some of the lyrics to fit her, which is honestly the most Joni Mitchell thing I think I’ve ever heard of." Variety has a clip from the performance here, along with a review of the show.
Crummy that #PBS uses dark patterns to try and get you to buy Ken Burns documentaries that are available to stream or download from their own site. It's one thing to promote DVD merch or provide a link to it on iTunes. It's a whole different thing to intentionally bury the free public access.
Persist and find the Season 1 list and you're on your way to finding the episode page where you can stream it or download via:
I've got S01E01 of "The U.S. and the Holocaust" ready to go in my home media server. Hopefully this works for the other Ken Burns docs since I don't trust PBS to resist disappearing these for real someday.
"In 2023, weekday editions of #PBS’s nightly news program #NewsHour aired nearly as many segments on the #climate crisis as the nightly news shows on ABC, CBS, and NBC combined. Even though 2023 was the hottest year in recorded history, those networks scaled back their climate coverage.
PBS more consistently connected climate change to fossil fuels.
PBS corrected conservative climate #misinformation."
Latest photo-shoot this week: screening at National Press Club of the PBS Frontline documentary "Democracy on Trial," about the Federal criminal indictment of former president Donald Trump, with discussion by producer Mike Wiser and investigative counsel Temidayo Aganga-Williams. 27 Mar. 2024.