Tag: media trends

CBC aired the first  of three half hour programs on Monday night featuring a bunch of teachers talking about problems in the Newfoundlandand Labrador school system.  The rest will come along over the next couple of weeks. To be perfectly clear, CBC claims ownership of the programs but, by the

Chris O’Neill-Yates is a veteran CBC journalist.  Like most people in her line of work,  Chris is on Twitter plugging both her own work and commenting on events in the world around her. Not surprisingly, Chris has been fascinated  – appalled might be a better word for it – by

Someone in Gander Bay has been catching and selling quantities of smelt. The Department of Fisheries and Oceans received complaints,  conducted in investigation, and laid charges against an adult who they caught in the act of selling fish to a fellow who turned out to be an undercover fisheries officer.

According to its supporters, we need to have a special office for search and rescue in St. John’s because Newfoundlanders spoke English so poorly that no one could understand us. Lives would be in jeopardy because Merv Wiseman lost his job. Wiseman was one of the loudest critics of the

There are times you read stuff and you just have to wonder what brought that on. There’s Telegram editor Russell Wangersky explaining how newspapers are still relevant in the world today.  he starts bitching the old bitch about how radio stations in town used to read Telegram stories on the

Three separate stories over the past three days highlight changes to the local media world. On Saturday, Telegram editor Russell Wangersky slammed the publicly funded CBC Radio for turning its morning show into the sort of light, fluffy morning program heard on commercial radio. (Is "We’re broadcasting from Tim Horton’s"