The Smart Affair….The Real Culprit
ThisIsNotYourGrandmother’s CBCVille Harvey Oberfeld gets right to the heart of the matter: ….(I)ncredibly, the real culprit in this situation …CBC regional management … decided to let (Mr. Stephen) Smart continue…
RossK
Is There Danger Lurking In The Latest Poll Numbers?
AllThePincersThatFit SchlieffenThis!Ville At first glance the numbers look to be all good for the BC-NDP according the fine folks at Forum Research and Postmedia News: …Of the 988 randomly selected…
Chain, Chain, Chain….
AllTheWordsmithingThatFits BloggodomeTelephoneVille It started with a comment from our good friend Santa Rosa Jon over at Beer’s place: “In one year when I was at US Steel I think six…
The Smart Affair….Never Mind The Bollocks…
…Here Come The False Equivalencies. So. With the media ranks fully closed Monday, VSun OpEd columnist Craig McInnes tried to padlock the barn door yesterday. Here, as near as I…
Winning Hearts And Minds With The Best Gossip Columnist Money Can Buy…
. Because once you’ve got Jane Taber of CTVBellGlobeEverythingElse Media on your side, how can you lose. **** Need background? You’ve got it. Here, from 10 days ago, when we…
The Smart Affair….The Media Closes Ranks
(Google-Cache Screen Shot Of The State-Of-Play, Monday Jan 23rd @ 9pm) Conflictyness’RUs HerdVille So. On Saturday CBC British Columbia British Columbia’s news division let it be known that it plans…
Did Keith Baldrey Fire The Smoking Gun That Demonstrates…
. …That CBC British Columbia And Its Legislative Bureau Chief Are In A Conflict Of Interest? Why, yes, I believe he did. And Norman Farrell has the audio up to…
Vulture Capitalist Uber Alles.
TheBainOfTheWorld’sExistence NotJustMittTheHoopedVille The madness of the ‘unwinding’, from Bloomberg News, by way of the incomparable Yves Smith: Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (LEHMQ) has paid more than $500 million in fees…
CBC British Columbia Tells CBC National Ombudsman To…
ObfuscationForAPublicBrodcasterNation MoCoVille …Take A Hike. From Andrea Woo in the VSun: …Johnny Michel, managing director for CBC’s B.C. region, said CBC will not be taking any action in light of…
Saturday Night’s Alright For…
….For Uke (Cover) Fighting! First, the original, from the ‘The Sweet’…. And now, the cover, with secret weapon, a cello!…. ______ The story of the ‘The Sweet’, and, especially, that…
Message From South Carolina…
. ….May The Best Race-Baiter Win! And so, in the end, it was done. CHARLESTON, S.C. — Surprising his rivals and upending the Republican race for the presidency, Newt Gingrich…
Fish Farm Fine Revisited
FillingTheWurlitzer’sCrankCaseWithSand (Almost)CompleteMediaBlack-OutVille It is now three days after the ruling against the fish farm company ‘Marine Harvest’ for not returning wild fish to the ‘wild’. Yesterday, we mentioned that only…
Does Anyone Really Think Those ConglomerNet Bills Are Dead?
AllTheLobShopsThatFit MrHollywoodGoesToWashingtonVille Because if they do they’re crazy. Here’s the lede of Richard Verrier’s story on the matter in the LA Times today: After a week in which their anti-piracy…
Who, Exactly, Is The CBC News Div. Fighting?
______________________________ So. Who, exactly, did the CBC ‘News Div.’ allegedly vanquish so that Mr. Baldrey could once again love the smell of napalm in the morning? Evil Bloggers? Partisan Pols?…
The Club Strikes Back!
Conflicts? WeDon’tHaveNoStinkin’Conflicts!Ville In case you missed it, there is a very exclusive Club in Lotusland. And, as Ian Reid explained some time ago, you and I are not in it:…
While Norm Works….Keith Fiddles.
There’sNoTedBaxter LikeTheRealTedBaxterVille First, Mr. Norman Farrell: The CBC Ombudsman has agreed with me and others who raised the issue of Stephen Smart’s conflict of interest. Now, we await the corporation’s…
The Media Versus The People
AllTheRealNews ThatDoesNotFitVille So. I waited on this story for two full days. And now, finally, there is a single proMedia report from Dan McLennan in the massive circulation Campbell River…
A Photo-Op Is Not Enough Madame (not)Premier
WatchWhatSheDoes NotWhatSheSaysVille Well, well, well…. Whaddy’a know. Christy Clark has bowed to public pressure and her own ‘internal’ reviews and has announced that there will be new funding for British…
Has The Time Come For The Dean To Put PavCo On Double-Secret Probation?
BlindedByTheLight RevvedUpLikeDeuce(sGoneWild)Ville Frances Bula has published a piece in The Globe on those egregious high-wattage, mega-mansion-sized billboards from PavCo that are burning the retinas of downtown residents who live within…
The ‘One’…
YourBasicFormula YouCanDoAnythingYouWannaDoWithItVille …Which is, according to Tim Tebow’s lifestyle flip-side (in a good, good way), Bootsy Collins, the true formula for ‘The Funk’: You can hear all about how Bootsy…