CBC Labor Woes Showcase Alternatives

“The ‘labour disruption’ at the CBC has spilled onto the Web, and it’s leaving a mess. It would be nice if the story was about how the new media empowered locked-out journalists to keep practising their trade. But expatriate CBC shows have been appearing on community radio stations across the country, all before any picketer-run news website arrives on the scene. (One is reported to be preparing for a launch next week.) Instead of saving us with science, the Internet has just given us an intimate view of our public broadcaster disemboweling itself.”