July 2008
39 posts
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The latest from Five Feet of Fury: Strombo to... →
The former Web designers of ‘Zed’ (Ununu) →
CBC has a ‘pop culture blog’? →
“You don’t have permission to access /arts/media/blogs/ on this server”
– – CBC Arts blogs
This just in: Sloan refused several requests for...
Nope: They did
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Haddock free to pitch ‘Intelligence’ somewhere... →
I.e. again, not the Corpse and not Fox
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CBC classical ratings flatline or increase... →
CBC [sic] and Janet’s boob not fined by FCC →
No shit, Sherlock
“A report… about CBS’s plans to import television shows from other...”
– (Times correction)
‘On the Facebook’: DAMN! I miss "Drop The Beat" &... →
[See later post]
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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Logo and TV... →
Blast du passé
Anybody tape ‘Pulp Fiction’ from CBC Saturday...
If so, get in touch, please (fakeouimet AT Gmail)
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“I hope Yvon Pedneault finds himself a good situation in which to continue his...”
– Yvon Pedneault Fired by RDS | Bleacher Report
“A Canadian television pioneer, he was a field producer for the Queen’s...”
– Francis Coleman, CBC producer (Tumblr will not allow me to notate his birth and death years)
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Five feet of blurry
A post entitled CBC employees really need customer-relations training notes that:
Yesterday Michael Coren slagged Omar Khadr… Coren got this E-mail in response:
You were kidding, right? No matter. That material is about as funny as a good old-fashioned waterboarding joke. Disgraceful.
– Richard Goddard [with E-mail and phone numbers]
How stupid do you have to be to slag a taxpayer –...
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Alternative Girlfriend’s notable CBC posts
Amateur copyright analysis of Hockey Night in Canada theme-song contest (see also: mine)
Spinning (i.e., prevaricating about) the actual chronology of events in CBC’s losing the rights to the Hockey Night in Canada theme
Lengthy inventory of recent CBC fuckups
“[P]lanning staff convinced the developer to shift the building west and build a...”
– The breathtaking transformation of downtown west 