CBC employees to turn lockout dynamics on their head

[justinsb]

For those of you who haven't been following the Canadian forum, one of the few reliable news agencies in North America has been locked out. But, the locked out workers are about to turn the dynamic of these things on it's head. Similar to striking auto workers making cars outside the factory the Canadian Media Guilds CBC division is going to go back to producing news and other programming without the CBC. Using the web as a broadcast platform (and apparently some local independent and university radio stations) CBC journalists, technicians, camera people, producers, etc., etc., etc., are simply going back to work and hoping that someday soon they will be doing it for the CBC again.

http://www.cmgtoronto.ca/participate.html

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. I'm really thinking that

the web will soon become THE place to get news, etc. Too many people are losing their trust in the mainstream media, and are attracted by the many choices of news on the 'net.

[justinsb]

2. Probably true, but I think it all comes down to credibility

A credible source for news will remain credible regardless of the medium they use (newspaper, magazine, television, radio or internet).

[acmavm]

3. Yeah, and that's the point. Very very few mainstream media sources

have any credibility at all. Case in point: The New York Times. They backed a lying administration, pushed their lies down our throats, issued the now infamous 'mea culpa' about their faulty (to say the least) 'news' reports, and now the executive editor and the higher ups are defending the person who filed almost all of the false stories (Judy Milller).

Does anyone find any credibility there? Or in Faux, who doesn't even bother to hide the fact that they're liars. They get caught, they smear the source of the truth. CNN is a joke. They're all a joke. The Washington Post has disgraced itself.

There are very few sources of unadulterated truthful news. Salon is a good source. Occassionally Rolling Stone will try to remind us why they were such a kick-ass magazine in the first couple of decades, and some regional or local newspapers, the Crawford Iconoclast coming to mind. The big ones are corporate hacks and whores for the current regime in office. They push the party line.

[justinsb]

4. Ironically though, public broadcasters seem to be doing well

in the US - PBS (Newshour, Frontline etc) seems to be the last remaining untarnished TV outlet, then there's the CBC in Canada and the BBC in the UK.