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You are all heroes! Heroes!
- Anonymous
Ouimet is a flame under the CBC's ass and I love him/her for that... The philosophy behind bloggers like Ouimet is simply that conversations are good.
- Matt Forsythe
Ouimet is a flame under the CBC's ass and I love him/her for that... The philosophy behind bloggers like Ouimet is simply that conversations are good.
- Matt Forsythe
I'm reading everyone's comments with interest and will continue to do so for the next five years, whether the stuff I read agrees or not with what I am doing or trying to achieve.
- President Hubert
Interesting discussion at The Tea Makers if you can get past the language.
- Joanne (True Blue)
More than any other initiative or internal project Ouimet is demonstrating not only where the future of the organization lies, but also the challenges and obstacles that it will face.
- Jesse Hirsh
... disgraceful, reprehensible and, in so many ways, beyond rebuke
- KFP Payan
S/He is a hero!!!
- Canadian Blue Lemons
Always mouthy but still anonymous CBC navel gazer
- Parkdale Pictures
I make you ill? Great. Vomit away. Get rid of all that pleasing bile. Then go look in the mirror and ask, "hey, what have *I* added to the culture today?"
- Denis McGrath
Being in the employ of a sibling Clown Copulation, it amazes me that talent such as this thrive in the crown corporate cultures. Seems to me the best one can expect are Capons of Management, at worst, saboteurs like these.
- Th'PonyToBetOn
Surreal.
- Neil Sanderson
Feel free to contact us directly if you'd like confirmation / clarification on this kind of stuff.
- Jeff Keay, Head of Media Relations, CBC
I never gave that blogger permission to use our interview… I don’t think asking or being polite and showing common courtesy are in [her] vocabulary either…
- Barbara W
Ouch, these people are harsh!
- Hal Niedzviecki, Globe and Mail
Ouimet, I applaud you. This guy is a douche of extraordinary douchebagginess.
- JupiterPluvius
Much of the [CBC] blogging is banal but the standout is one allegedly written by a CBC manager.
- John Doyle, Globe and Mail
August 23, 2005
During the lockout of CBC staff in 2005, there was a sudden flowering of online commentary about the lockout and the CBC. Some of it made for fascinating reading ... Those that remained descended into the usual anonymously written, infantile nonsense. What passes for humour is often hilariously badly written hatred of real journalists.
- John Doyle, Globe and Mail
January 4, 2007
One of [CBC's] best known lockout apologists.
- CBC Watch
You're not a management stooge blogger. You can put that in your sidebar if you want ;>)
- The CBC Drone
An ungrateful rebel.
- Allan Sorensen
Predictably dismissive.
- Small Dead Animals
The best-written exercise in tough love aimed at CBC management and naysayers.
- Guy Dixon, Globe and Mail
Hey Ouimet, fuck you!!!
- Fuck Ouimet
"[The CBC Blogging Manifesto] offers good advice to those wishing to blog about CBC/Radio-Canada, or to those wishing to carry out any similar self-publishing activity."
- CBC Senior Management
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btw who is checking on CBC's unclaimed $$ at the Bank of Canada - looks like CBC International Sales has a few thousand to collect.
8:14 PM, April 13, 2008
That said, thanks for being there, and best wishes, to echo blistering barnacles. Enjoy the rest!
2:36 AM, April 14, 2008
5:57 AM, April 14, 2008
I am also getting a sense that the Radio 2 debacle was the last straw for many CBC advocates. Here was a change that had to be made, one that many could agree upon, fumbled, yet again, by management. They destroyed most things they touched on the TV side and now, witnessing their first move in Radio, everybody realizes that there is little point in complaining. They are going to bring this place down no matter who blogs what. Hubert appears to be Richard's handpuppet.
Thanks for you efforts, Ouimet. I hope it is only a rest you are taking.
6:15 AM, April 14, 2008
7:32 AM, April 14, 2008
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10:54 AM, April 14, 2008
But you deserve a break. We'll have a cold one together to celebrate three years of (in your case at least) some seriously solid pensmanship.
11:59 AM, April 14, 2008
Hope you decide to come back - the door will always be open, at least on-line!!!
12:08 PM, April 14, 2008
former cbcer
5:19 PM, April 14, 2008
6:38 PM, April 14, 2008
And let me be clear, this is entirely my own choice. If they were going to force me out, no way it would be discrete. I promise.
And to the former CBCer who left a nasty comment earlier this morning: I approved it, but it disappeared before my eyes. Which either means that you retracted it as I approved it, or somehow Blogger ate it. If it was the former, let's just leave it at that. If it was the latter, resend the comment and I'll post it, but you'll allow me a pre-emptive "fuck you" here:
Fuck you.
6:55 PM, April 14, 2008
The last voice has been stilled.
Ouimet has closed the keyboard drawer and shut down the computer.
One by one overwork has slowed or stopped the other blogs.
Antonia gave it up years ago.
John Doyle, who didn't really matter and who really doesn't know that much anyway, has now narrowed his mandate to nothing by announcing from his TV cranny that he doesn't cover radio.
So J. Frank will remain retired on his deck and watch the sun set, as the Corp sinks like the Titanic beneath the waves.
Let me have one parting shot at King Richard. I was thinking of sending a column on this to my friend Alphonse, but Anon 0615 is right, no one has time, even in retirement. So here is the short version.
While recovering from a recent flu an ex, a kindly person, lent me a copy of Malcolm Gladwell's "Blink."
There was unintended fall out that my ex did not expect, the book made me sicker.
For when I read it, I realized the CBC is doomed. The Radio 2 fiasco is just the latest symptom of the fatal illness.
You see, King Richard never blinks.
For a creative organization to thrive, Gladwell says you need to realize that you need the blink moment,which grabs the audience, as well as the figures the bean counters use.
As long as King Richard depends on those figures and nothing more; as long as Richard and his sycophantic court is incapable of understanding the blink factor, those figures will continue their spiral to the bottom of the cold deep Atlantic trench.
So in the tradition of print, it's -30- now for Ouimet and -30- for the CBC in times to come.
7:57 PM, April 14, 2008
I understand though, Take Care and hopefully we'll see your return to the Blogosphere someday.
12:45 AM, April 15, 2008
As for King Richard - I believe he will soon find out that the crown Bobby put on his head was only made of plastic.
Stick around babe !
Neutron
8:43 AM, April 15, 2008
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10:45 AM, April 15, 2008
3:22 PM, April 15, 2008
Best of luck with your time off.
3:23 PM, April 15, 2008
I'm certainly not going to say "but you CAN'T go Ouimee !!1!" (I can call you that, right?)Seems to me you've stuck with it far longer than I and others. You deserve to enjoy some nice weather without making time to create a post, moderate comments, put out flame wars, tell people to "fuck off", create the link farm, check-in and update, repeat all.
You did make a very good resource for all of us still with a picogram of feelings for this place.
I am sure something will come to replace your blog (Neutron?). to whomever does it... just let me know where... I have a cartful of ellipsi and a whackload of borderline sentences using the letter 'D', 'R' and 'S'
Just won't be the same though... I was really looking forward to the 3-D version.
Sic 'em!
Aigle
4:23 PM, April 15, 2008
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7:36 PM, April 16, 2008
Nice try.) (for the record, I gave it a One, as Zero was not available)
What a great achievement, Ouimet.
Truly, amazing.
8:48 PM, April 16, 2008
9:35 AM, April 17, 2008
and take Dick with you
9:27 AM, April 20, 2008
Hope you are enjoying your break. :)
10:28 PM, April 23, 2008
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12:14 PM, June 06, 2008
7:14 PM, June 06, 2008
teamakers in its latest issue on better newstands now.
Frank magazine Vol 2 issue 65 June 18 2008 (cover date)
[ Tony Soprano / Julie Couillard cover ]
Remedial Media : page 19 : The Corpse
[---Kirstine Layfield vs Fred Fuchs internecine wars....]
[---Peter Mansbridge clothing budget, expenses a state secret....]
"Whatever became of The Tea Makers blog? For the past three years, the site has been a favourite hangout for disaffected Corpsoids. Some of the commentary is unfit for a national satire mag, but here's taste anyway: [rude words in a reader's comment about Richard Stursberg and his role in the CBC lockout follow]
This was too much for the new CBC Box Hubie LaCroix, who fired off a windy missive to Tea Makers, chiding the anonymous employee: "I could not believe that someone could use this kind of language to any communication. Is the gap between management and employees so wide that no bridge can be built:?"
Alas, despite el presidente's admonition, the tone at Tea Makers didn't improve over the winter.
"This guy is a douche of extraordinary ....[ etc. etc.]
LaCroix himself stopped posting comments at Tea Maker, and a few weeks later, blogmeister "Ouimet" mysteriously announced his/her own departure:
"I've decided to take a break from this site. I'm not sure when I'll
be back. It might be a while..."
So what happened? The way we hear it, Lacroix, convinced that the blog was destroying employee morale (/italics/ shurely shome mistake?!--ed. /end italics/), decided to shut it down. He made a special trip to CBC Toronto and booked a studio to meet with "Ouimet," a senior CBC communications department sluggo, to "urge" him/her to pack give it up.
Endofblog--and another triumph for the Corpse thought police."
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6:40 PM, June 12, 2008
3:20 AM, June 15, 2008
Thanks for keeping an eye and ear at the ready, Ouimet.
12:07 PM, June 15, 2008
http://www.friends.ca/News/news06040801.asp
Vancouver – CBC will air more foreign programs than ever before on prime time English TV next autumn, defying CRTC licence expectations and confirming that CBC has lost touch with its public broadcasting purpose, says the watchdog group FRIENDS of Canadian Broadcasting.
CBC will regularly broadcast 7 hours of foreign, mostly US, programs during prime time. This is a substantial increase, eclipsing the highest level of foreign content ever tracked since FRIENDS first began monitoring CBC’s English television schedule in 1990. CBC has logged a steady increase since the current head of CBC English operations took charge of television in the summer of 2004.
This plan will place CBC in defiance of the CRTC’s broadcast licence expectation of 80% Canadian content during prime time and runs counter to the recommendation of Commons Heritage Committee in its recent report on CBC’s mandate “that prime-time hours, from 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm Monday to Friday, on the CBC/Radio-Canada’s television networks, should be reserved for Canadian productions”.
“CBC is supposed to be about presenting Canada to its citizens, not American game shows and Hollywood movies,...." (read more)
And of course there's this:
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/MediaNews/2008/03/18/5039076-sun.html
1:48 PM, June 19, 2008
5:04 PM, June 26, 2008
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