Shifting outrage gears
Sep. 9th, 2005 09:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sabotabbyOkay, this CBC lockout thing is getting very old. For those of you who aren't in Canada or aren't following this crap, the lockout...I mean, "labour disruption" has hit Day 25. CBC Unplugged is the best source for information on the lockout, and is a much better source of information than the actual CBC, which is now being run by the bosses.
Boss Radio is a great source of unintentional hilarity, however. I require three things to get me up in the morning: coffee, a hot shower, and the CBC. I don't look at the clock to figure out whether I'm late for work or not -- when The Current starts, I know that I need to get a move on it. So the lockout has resulted in me being late for work at least once, as there's only pop songs and "human interest" snippets until 9 am, when they read whatever the BBC says happened in international news.
Our nice, fuzzy, liberal media outlet has taken a decided turn to the Right. To their credit, the NDP is supporting the CBC workers and refusing to cooperate with CBC management -- presumably, any sort of progressive group or individual in Canada is doing the same thing. So the interviews tend to be with other management types, usually in the US, and high school students and teachers who don't know any better.
Yesterday was my breaking point, though. They had an interview with a guidance counsellor about how schoolchildren in Winnipeg are coping from the trauma of watching Hurricane Katrina coverage on TV. No, seriously. She kept saying the words "curriculum outcomes." I died a little.
Among other realizations, I've decided that Susan Marjetti, who is one of the two morning hosts, is a tool of the Devil. For whatever reason, she thought it'd be funny to do a Top Ten List of Reasons Why Getting Up At 3 pm Was So Much Fun. It included "I'm in bed by 8 pm" and "I get to listen to car alarms go off when I wake up."
There's a political analysis here, as always. The ruling class is incapable of coming up with anything creative or productive. Left to their own devices, the foundations of civilized society will crumble, leaving us with Rod Stewart on repeat and the desire to ram pointy things through our ears.
Boss Radio is a great source of unintentional hilarity, however. I require three things to get me up in the morning: coffee, a hot shower, and the CBC. I don't look at the clock to figure out whether I'm late for work or not -- when The Current starts, I know that I need to get a move on it. So the lockout has resulted in me being late for work at least once, as there's only pop songs and "human interest" snippets until 9 am, when they read whatever the BBC says happened in international news.
Our nice, fuzzy, liberal media outlet has taken a decided turn to the Right. To their credit, the NDP is supporting the CBC workers and refusing to cooperate with CBC management -- presumably, any sort of progressive group or individual in Canada is doing the same thing. So the interviews tend to be with other management types, usually in the US, and high school students and teachers who don't know any better.
Yesterday was my breaking point, though. They had an interview with a guidance counsellor about how schoolchildren in Winnipeg are coping from the trauma of watching Hurricane Katrina coverage on TV. No, seriously. She kept saying the words "curriculum outcomes." I died a little.
Among other realizations, I've decided that Susan Marjetti, who is one of the two morning hosts, is a tool of the Devil. For whatever reason, she thought it'd be funny to do a Top Ten List of Reasons Why Getting Up At 3 pm Was So Much Fun. It included "I'm in bed by 8 pm" and "I get to listen to car alarms go off when I wake up."
There's a political analysis here, as always. The ruling class is incapable of coming up with anything creative or productive. Left to their own devices, the foundations of civilized society will crumble, leaving us with Rod Stewart on repeat and the desire to ram pointy things through our ears.
