The following is a snipit from my podcast at http://homepage.mac.com/tjmacsindustries. I was looking at how the strike at the CBC can only really lower the overall quality of the CBC both culturally and financially.
- CBC strike. How will if effect our Canadian-ness?
I'm confused about the strike. On one hand it offers new freelancers to get a crack at the steady big-time(ish). This is great on one hand. However as the cycle continues I start to wonder what will happen next time around. The new steady workers, who used to be freelancers are just as able to get caught up in a similar position as the current staffers at the CBC find themselves in. However they might see this as inevitable, and therefore let it go. Chalk it up to a learning experience and treat it a little more like how they used to treat their freelance work of days gone by. After all, they are now new freelancers again. What does this do to the CBC in general? Does it give the bottom liners a true sense of security? They can always hire more freelancers and throw them away. What about the CBC's competitiveness? It seems to be the root of all evil in this strike. The CBC needs to make money to survive, as does CTV and Global et al. but they are already cutting cultural corners that the CBC would never be able to do with it's current mandate...Staying Canadian. It seems like in order to compete with other Canadian networks, they have to loose a little of what it is to be Canadian and become a little more like our neighbours to the south and show their content as well as adopt their business practices. I'm not saying that I would want, or like, this to happen. I'm just saying shame on you CBC, for considering it!
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Good point about the cultural corners. If we don't hear our own voice played back to us and our own perspective who are we?
Posted by: Robert Paterson | August 31, 2005 at 09:08 AM