Is this the old CBC?
150 staffers met this week in Toronto and agreed to set up a national internet alternative linking into Community and Campus radio across Canada. What an epochal event! Roll the calendar forward to say the end of October, no settlement, a terrible CBC full of reruns and a full web based system being run by locked out CBC staffers.
This web alternative network is global, it is national and it is strongly local. It is full of high quality material. It can turn on a dime - being a network and has a huge feed from citizen journalists. It has a developing international network of bloggers all over the world. A bomb goes off in Paris, Parisian bloggers feed pictures and comment. Stephen Harper admits to being gay. The gay community welcome him! Real pros like Michael Enright can use Skype to call and interview anyone. It has a growing and deep local system. You see the local hockey team - videoed by a parent. You hear an interview with a local author - interviewed by her neighbor. You catch the local fire - fed by a local with commentary by the chief. Your brother becomes a film or restaurant critic - with no limit to time or schedule, the local station can cover everything. You only download what interests you.
The bureaucracy that costs so much is left beached like a rotting whale. Which CBC is alive and which one is dead? Which CBC deserves our tax dollars? Who gets paid to work? Which is truly national? What is the model for the future? Which one costs less than the other but delivers more value and pays its talent more?
Which is the dolphin?
