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A conservative OPINION blog --with bite. OPINION by Joel Johannesen.

Friday, April 21, 2006

Headline: CBC lays off 79 staff.

Written by Joel Johannesen on Friday April 21 2006 at 05:41 AM

Public reaction:  Yawn.

Location of headline:  Only on CBC.ca. 

Level of vanity and sense of self-importance at the CBC:  Limitless. Hideous.

Word of the day: Solipsistic.

When a company I owned and ran layed-off a bunch of people, the state-employed news hounds at the state-run CBC didn’t send a crew out to report on it, nor even mention it at the multi-gazillion-dollar taxpayer-funded state-run CBC.ca which competes against private Canadian citizens not unlike me.  Nor did they when a company I worked for layed off 189 staff.  Perhaps it’s not important when it’s not them.  Or government employees. 

So self-involved are they and with such an overblown and exaggerated estimate of their own value that they saw fit to make that (non)story one of the top stories listed in their state-run web site, CBC.ca, yesterday.  It was listed in the number three slot yesterday on the front page of the state-run CBC.ca people’s web site when my wife sent it to me in disgust. 

It remains even today, after much news has occurred from all over, as one of their top stories —which of course it is in their minds only. 

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This is the news they think is important for Canadians. 

Watch for the special on “The Passionate Eye” early next month when they’ll also be examining Stephen Harper’s belly in a segment they’re calling “It’s just plain big!”.

Posted by Joel Johannesen on   Fri, April 21, 2006 at 5:41:00 AM
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  1. .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) says:

    79 socialist self-serving goofs given their walking papers.  Speaking of walking, this news has certainly put some bounce into my step this morning.  I hope the next layoff notification from the CBC has at least 3 figures in it.  Who’ll give me 4?  Happy Friday CBC!

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  from  Winnipeg (The Gateway to the West)  on  Fri, April 21, 2006 at 6:31:56 AM
  2. conservativegal's avatar conservativegal says:

    I’m hoping to see CBC popinjays  Mansbridge, Boag, Macdonald, VanDusen and Mesley on the next round of pink slips.

    Posted by conservativegal  from  Vancouver Island  on  Fri, April 21, 2006 at 6:37:12 AM
    — conservativegal's   s i g n a t u r e:

    “I am a Canadian, a free Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship God in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, free to choose those who shall govern my country. This heritage of freedom I pledge to uphold for myself and for all mankind.”

    The Right Honourable John G. Diefenbaker, Prime Minister of Canada, House of Commons Debates on the Cdn. Bill of Rights, July 1, 1960

  3. Joel Johannesen's avatar Joel Johannesen says:

    I think they wear pink slips don’t they?

    Posted by Joel Johannesen  from  Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada  on  Fri, April 21, 2006 at 7:07:34 AM
    — Joel Johannesen's   s i g n a t u r e:

    I could hardly believe “ProudToBeCanadian” was available when I was looking for a web site domain name.  No liberal thought of it?  It took a true blue CONSERVATIVE to think of buying that name and starting a web site built around it?  What does that tell you?  ...  Please remember to support this site.

  4. conservativegal's avatar conservativegal says:

    Joel Johannesen says:
    I think they wear pink slips don’t they?

    Nothing would surprise me.

    Posted by conservativegal  from  Vancouver Island  on  Fri, April 21, 2006 at 7:16:20 AM
    — conservativegal's   s i g n a t u r e:

    “I am a Canadian, a free Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship God in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, free to choose those who shall govern my country. This heritage of freedom I pledge to uphold for myself and for all mankind.”

    The Right Honourable John G. Diefenbaker, Prime Minister of Canada, House of Commons Debates on the Cdn. Bill of Rights, July 1, 1960

  5. .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) says:

    The big story right now in Canada is the native standoff in Ontario.

    Of course, in ‘we’re oh so liberal’ Canada, it perfectly OK for Aboriginals to block streets and bridges, burn private property, and threaten violence if they don’t get their way. Is any other race of people allowed to do this?

    Is anyone paying attention to the destuction of the politics of appeasement and dependency? The situation in France is where we’re headed.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  from  Prairie Canada  on  Fri, April 21, 2006 at 8:12:36 AM
  6. .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) says:

    How many of those were hard working technical behind the scenes people? I realize they were most likely overstaffed, but what are the chances they have been making (taking)as much as the Boags and Mansbridge type.I guess I’m a little concerned for that level of the workforce because our son is looking for employment in that field.Just like in my feild(health care) it they never chop at the top.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  from   on  Fri, April 21, 2006 at 8:34:11 AM
  7. .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) says:

    Re: native standoff…has anyone called it anarchy yet?

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  from   on  Fri, April 21, 2006 at 8:36:38 AM
  8. .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) says:

    Only 79!?

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  from  Guelph, Ontario  on  Fri, April 21, 2006 at 9:21:38 AM
  9. Dacre says:

    I’m sure the rumour mill at the CBC must be working overtime. The new government, plenty of anti CBC conservatives pressing them on dumping the CBC and their steady loss of viewers and listeners. you gotta love it.

    Posted by Dacre  from   on  Fri, April 21, 2006 at 10:38:55 AM
  10. IamCanadian's avatar IamCanadian says:

    Anything that reduces and removed government jobs and reduces government spending is GOOD.

    We need more government services NOT.

    We have too many people publicly employeed and living off too few working in the private sector forced to pay for it all.

    Government Employees do not pay taxes. They are paid with the taxes of the private sector and use that to pay their share of taxes.

    Having less people working for the government not only reduces government spending but also creates more taxpayers that help pay the reduced costs of government and we can all live together with less taxation.

    Posted by IamCanadian  from  a long time ago  on  Fri, April 21, 2006 at 11:49:06 AM
    — IamCanadian's   s i g n a t u r e:

    The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
    ....Dante

  11. N'Hampsha Yankee's avatar N'Hampsha Yankee says:

    #3 -

    I think they wear pink slips don’t they?

    Mansbridge, maybe. Actually, to see Wendy in something slinky and black could potentially add interest to the nothing she usually has to say.

    Posted by N'Hampsha Yankee  from  Manchester, NH  on  Fri, April 21, 2006 at 12:29:53 PM
    — N'Hampsha Yankee's   s i g n a t u r e:

    A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take it all away.

  12. Chazz's avatar Chazz says:

    I’m FAR more concerned about the 2000 dead Hogs in Nova Scotia.

    Posted by Chazz  from  London, Ontario  on  Fri, April 21, 2006 at 2:12:05 PM
  13. .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) says:

    Typical CBC spin.

      What the story really is :

      CBC deals with years of Over-staffing and financial waste of Public money.

      Does “Friday night with Ralph Benmurgey”
    bring back memories and a cool sweat .

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  from  Toronto  on  Fri, April 21, 2006 at 2:51:54 PM
  14. .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) says:

    I think they wear pink slips don’t they?

    ...to match their rainbow coloured glasses?

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  from  pgbc-it snowed this am!  on  Fri, April 21, 2006 at 2:55:15 PM
  15. .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) says:

    The C(communist)B(bullchit)C(corporation) and Mansbridge did a nice little Harper trash-session last night , with the usual press pundits. It was so inexcusably biased that it reeked of Liberal desperation.

    Nuke the CBC.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  from   on  Fri, April 21, 2006 at 3:00:05 PM
  16. Joel Johannesen's avatar Joel Johannesen says:

    thumbs up

    Posted by Joel Johannesen  from  Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada  on  Fri, April 21, 2006 at 3:01:17 PM
    — Joel Johannesen's   s i g n a t u r e:

    I could hardly believe “ProudToBeCanadian” was available when I was looking for a web site domain name.  No liberal thought of it?  It took a true blue CONSERVATIVE to think of buying that name and starting a web site built around it?  What does that tell you?  ...  Please remember to support this site.

  17. .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) says:

    Did anyone else notice in the article that the total staff reduction of about 100 employees (79 layoffs, 20 open positions to be left unfilled…) will have a total savings of one million dollars???

    That’s an average salary of $100k.  For prop people, carpenters, and make-up artists. 

    The forums on the Globe and Mail site have a lot of people spouting off about how its always the “little guy” to get laid off.  With a salary of $100k??  I don’t think so…

    Maybe I should quit my job and go to beauty school….

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  from  Lethbridge, AB  on  Fri, April 21, 2006 at 8:05:03 PM
  18. .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) says:

    Nevermind.  I am an idiot.  Can’t divide.

    That’s an average salary of $10k.  That makes even less sense.  Are they “laying off” part time staff??

    At my job we always relate things to “FTE” or full time equivalent…so a part-time job may be 0.4 FTE, 0.6, 0.8, and so on.

    I wonder what the number of full time jobs we are talking about here.

    OK, no more math for me tonight….

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  from  Lethbridge, AB  on  Fri, April 21, 2006 at 8:12:24 PM
  19. Roger says:

    I’m elated to hear that 79 CBCers were laid off, but I wish it had been 79 fulltime CBC employees.  These people must’ve been part-timers ($1 million annual saving divided by 79 employees equals $12,660 per laid-off worker).

    At least it’s a start PM Harper.  I hope there are more cuts to follow.  thumbs up

    Posted by Roger  from  Saskatoon  on  Fri, April 21, 2006 at 8:23:30 PM
  20. .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) says:

    Best news I’ve heard in months! 79 fewer CBCers. Wonderful!

    I’ve long argued against the privatization of the CBC ... since privatization would merely allow the personnel of the CBC to worm their way into private sector jobs, carrying with them their liberal bias. (Assuming private sector media would hire them ... but who’d bet against THAT? The Canadian ‘private sector’ media are no great shakes themselves.)

    My proposal has always been that the CBC should be burned to the ground, with all its personnel locked inside.

    Of course one can’t propose this overtly, much less do it.

    A major seminar has to be scheduled at the presumptuously-titled ‘National Broadcasting Centre,’ with attendance mandatory for all CBC personnel nation-wide.

    When all have arrived, a fire breaks out ... accidentally, of course. With consequent and much-to-be-regretted (ha ha) loss of life.

    Tongue in cheek? Yes, definitely.

    But how otherwise to eradicate the CBC’s malign influence in Canada? Shutting the CBC down, de-funding it, simply means the institution disappears, but the institution is composed of its PERSONNEL, ... and THEY are the problem. How to keep them from infecting the other media outlets, to which they would naturally migrate, for continued employment?

    Perhaps it’s time for a mechanism similar to the one employed by ‘genuine’ “professionals.” The CBC media-types (and every other jumped-up little socialist) want to proclaim themselves ‘professionals.’ One of the distinguishing characteristics of a ‘profession’ is that it is accorded ‘self-regulating’ privileges by the government and legal system.

    Incompetent or unethical lawyers get DISBARRED, and incompetent doctors have their medical licences REVOKED (in theory, at least).

    It’s time to institute some similar mechanism for JOURNALISTS. If they want to bleat about how PROFESSIONAL they are ... let them step up to the plate of ACCOUNTABILITY.

    Has anyone ever heard of a JOURNALIST being ‘disbarred’? Of course not, because they don’t require a licence to practice.

    But why shouldn’t they be required to be licenced?

    Given the enormous and unfettered power of the media, is it really sufficient that all that’s required is a bloody BA in ‘Journalism,’ and a job offer from a media outlet?

    Of course the media types will scream about unconstitutional restrictions on ‘free speech’ ... but let them scream. It will be music to my ears. The sweet melody of hypocrisy challenged and outraged will be the air of spring.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  from  St. John's  on  Fri, April 21, 2006 at 8:24:04 PM
  21. I.C.E. Man says:

    The CBC needs to be given an enema.  No actually it needs to go.  The only thing worth watching is hockey and I believe the other networks would love to take a shot at it.

    Posted by I.C.E. Man  from   on  Fri, April 21, 2006 at 9:16:34 PM
  22. .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) says:

    no more tax dollars, if i want leftist propoganda ill read the NYT

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  from   on  Sat, April 22, 2006 at 12:08:48 AM
  23. .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) says:

    Oh to be a Conservative MP & to answer the phone , only to have a canned CBC employed whinning over the phone about their job loss.

    Is that Conservative nirvanna or what ?

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  from   on  Sat, April 22, 2006 at 2:05:29 AM
  24. N'Hampsha Yankee's avatar N'Hampsha Yankee says:

    #23 -

    Oh to be a Conservative MP & to answer the phone , only to have a canned CBC employed whinning over the phone about their job loss.

    As one of their inebriated operatives once proclaimed on-air during the ‘holiday season’ many long years ago:

    ‘This is the Dominion network of the Canadian Broadcarping Castration’.

    ‘Nuf said.

    Posted by N'Hampsha Yankee  from  Manchester, NH  on  Sat, April 22, 2006 at 2:32:39 AM
    — N'Hampsha Yankee's   s i g n a t u r e:

    A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take it all away.

  25. .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) says:

    Let them go to work for the new gay radio station in downtown Toronto . I`m sure they could make their quarter million a year, preaching to their enlightened followers in the leather bars and bath houses.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  from  Ont.,Canuckistan  on  Sat, April 22, 2006 at 3:14:26 AM
  26. hemostat78 says:

    The CBC needs to be cut off the ‘Dole’!  Sink or swim you leaching lefties!

    Posted by hemostat78  from   on  Sat, April 22, 2006 at 6:02:38 AM
  27. .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) says:

    What private company could afford to hire salespeople on straight salary, with NO emphasis on sales.  That’s right, no salary plus commission, no minimum monthly sales goal, no commission, no pressure to produce, just straight generous salary. If you sell good, if you don’t sell….well that’s okay too.  Same paycheque either way.  It’s called CBC style incentive.  Yes, the CBC ‘don’t worry, be happy syndrome’.  They don’t need to sell advertising to raise operating capital, they get plenty of tax dollars for doing nothing.   

    It is time to tell the CBC “sink or swim”.  No more tax money.  (Psst….suggestion, somebody better start passing out the life jackets to all at CBC if tax money is ever cut off).

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  from  Winnipeg (The Gateway to the West)  on  Sat, April 22, 2006 at 9:48:19 AM
  28. .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) says:

    Patriot ;

    Ever notice the types of ads that run at commercial breaks on the CBC ?  At least one of them is an ad advertising another CBC show.

    How ironic. Sort of like MSM reporters interviewing MSM reporters for their opinions.  Yuk.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  from   on  Sat, April 22, 2006 at 10:00:18 AM
  29. .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) says:

    I would be thrilled if Neil McDonald, Rick Mercer, Sunday edition staff and Allan Gregg were the ones laid off but oh well…...

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  from  Alberta  on  Sat, April 22, 2006 at 1:18:31 PM
  30. .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) says:

    CGM , I watched the environmental awards the other night (Mulroney) ; I noticed Rick Mercer sitting in the audience , looking rather nervous. The camera panned-in on him a few times when Mulroney cracked a joke or two , and he actually looked around to see whether he should laugh or not.

    Another stupid Liberal who cannot appreciate good , clean humour.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  from   on  Sat, April 22, 2006 at 3:10:15 PM
  31. .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) says:

    I live in Caledonia, and please Terry don’t call the protesters natives. There terrorists, after what they did last Thursday.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  from   on  Sun, April 23, 2006 at 10:21:04 AM
  32. .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) says:

    You are right Mr . Sandwich . If you`ll notice the TV interviews all the residents are ’ on the side of the Indians ’  [ er I mean people of first nations . I couldn`t be that they are afraid of repercussions from the lunatic fringe of these fine industrious folks who are just so willing to reject their welfare and special status where they take casino profits and cross borders indiscriminately—-and start working , and paying taxes , etc. Kind of reminds me of the Islamo - fascists blackmailing Paul Martin into staying away from controversy or the US liberals demanding to bring home the troops from Iraq. We must not upset them ; they`re liable to get mad at us and bomb us ; which they eventually will be more emboldened to do , by appeasement.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  from  Ont.,Canuckistan  on  Mon, April 24, 2006 at 5:07:39 AM
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