That's a pet peeve of mine.

Their slogan is "Broadcast Yourself", not "Broadcast random letters of the alphabet".

"Slow news day" is just a rationalization of "Lazy news reporters".

I couldn't agree more. They've got Mansbridge doing his damnedest to come across like Wolf Blitzer, which is like a director asking Daniel Day-Lewis to star in the next Harold and Kumar movie.

I am young and uninformed, but this new sarcastic, vapid, edgy and ADD ridden format has really peaked my interest in the news. Way to keep it real CBC…

BOLF!!

"CNN (North): Why bother?

Indeed. Most of Mother Corpse's "news" makeover, with money from taxpayers in the Great White North having gone, er, south in the effort, is now a frenetic ("frantic kineticism"? see link at last para of post) reality show, fixated this morning on a sad, but individual, anomaly…"
http://dustmybroom.com/index.php?option=com_conte…

Mark
Ottawa

Next time they decide to have a.v. night for the local high school kids, they should post a warning.

According to the CBC’s policy:
“In all cases, the presentation of violence should be warranted and should not be undertaken for shock effect or for trivial reasons.”
http://www.cbc.radio-canada.ca/accountability/jou…

I WANTED to like it.

Honest, I did; I think Lang and O'Leary were a coup for those of us who wanted someone capable of understanding LIBOR or bank capitalizations or venture capital to be staffing a beat for their evening newscasts.

Instead, I was actually embarrassed to be watching. The breaking point was the bit where Mansbridge said to Hillier, "and watch this clip," and Canada's best general since the war is reduced to awkwardly looking around trying to figure out which of the ten green screens and monitors has the clip that's supposed to be so embarrassing to him. How hard would it have been to have had Mansbridge say, "In 2005, you said… [quote]. Do you stand by that today?" It would have been more effective, frankly.

And this morning, at a diner over breakfast, I got a headache from whats-her-name on the 9ish shift. She was practically shouting these cheezy lines – "A teen died….[dramatic pause]………and it *could* have been H1N1!" over and over like it was from a script, and I couldn't figure out why she suddenly felt the need to shout when she seemed so reasonable a day prior. And then they panned back and I realized: the poor bastards in studio are placed fourteen miles from the nearest actual human. Miked or not, hey feel the need to scream to actually be heard by their own colleagues.

Wish I knew how many more reporters they could have hired with the money spent on this one.

http://www.seinfeldscripts.com/TheMaestro.htm

No time, no time….There's a newshole to fill!

Is the CBC kowtowing to the Conservatives? Is this more evidence of the Conservatives blurring the lines between the Party and The Government? Is the CBC now "Standing Up for Canada"? Is the National subliminally reminding me to "Stand Up for Canada"?

And, is it just me, or is anyone else considering the possiblity of a reality show competetition between Kady and Wendy to determine just who the perkiest CBC reporter is?

Bonus feature: you don't have to watch Mansbridge.

I do have a bone to pick with you and Coyne about our favourite pixel committee wonk. No acknowledgment of her contributions to Macleans really looked like sour grapes.

Would a post on your blog really have been that hard?

There is no such thing as, "a day when there actually isn't all that much going on in the world."

Things may get very interesting.

I am not sure. you might be right. But, and i mean this in a complimentary way, when blog central was/is at its best it suggested otherwise.

And Lang was a good catch. I think her show on BNN might have been a better format. The 30 minute show seemed rushed, and they were firing off topics like it was some kind of lightning round.

Why does it keep flashing "News….Now" on the screen? It's a freaking news channel. And I have a watch. Got it.

Heather is hard to listen to and now there is more to see given the CBC has sold all the chairs to pay for graphic designers and Colleen Jones' hair people.

I'll continue to give it a shot but the morning show is leaving me disappointed. Will try later in the day.

Isn't that the existing format of The Hour, a show which has about three minutes of actual content over the course of 42 minutes?

New format seems gimmicky and distracting from journalism. Guess I'm not as optimistic about the newshole…

I'm an old sailor and i haven't heard it quite that way before. PW you have hidden talents.

Hey, KO'M is a loss to Macleans, but frankly, as a non paying online reader, I myself had difficulty figuring out the economics of her employ by Whyte. She didn't write columns in the mag, so was her employ sustainable here without a wider audience that CBC/tv provides? Remember when Wolf had two blogger analysts observing opposing sides of the debate (now down to one) , and Don Newman had his Monday blog review with KOM? Will history repeat?

This whole restructuring /reprogramming looks like the PC guy on the Mac commercials. Even the lead in program, with Amanda Lang and Kevin O'Leary is a ripoff of their similar program on BNN. Hell, they even sit in the same positions with the same camera angle! And ask O'Leary about gov't involvement in industry- he'd jump off the deep end while on BNN – I guess the ego has wonderful ways of smoothing over ideology.

Windows 7? No thanks, I'm sticking with my PowerMac.