While I am at it, I want to complain about our CBC Vancouver dinner hour news. THERE is a case of ruining something that worked very well. Oh…let’s do a 1.5 hour broadcast in half hour segments. Let’s start at 5, when most people are either making dinner or on the way home and not able to watch. Finally, let’s break every story into bits so we can present a bit in each half hour segment. Yuck! Way to go about committing suicide, CBC!

I’m glad that you found better forums for Evan Solomon and Mark Kelley – their segments were unwatchable before. Perhaps having shows that leverage their strengths will command a broader audience. I watched one episode of the Lang & O’Leary Exchange and Heather Hiscox mid-day report and found those changes positive.

Please make The National watchable again.

By CBC’s own admission the public “wants the real story”. Why then has the CBC re-vamped itself to become what appears to me to be the most diminutive and uninformative news broadcast in Canadian Prime time. The news now seems to be filled with Fluff, and attempts to brand the personalities on the news. (Really can Wendy diminish her integrity any more this week?). In adopting the American format CBC is making one clear mistake in its understanding of Canadians. We do not learn by repetition, we actually like to reflect on things, and would like to learn something from our news. It was an embarrassment to have Gen Hillier stand at a counter and be grilled by Peter, and I find the broadcast suffocating in it limited range (3 stories with no fact repeated over-and over- and over and over..). As a Canadian I do want to” know the real story”, I want well thought out, probative, and often a little more depthful reporting. I do not want to be spoon feed infotainment from talking heads.

(Really, really guys it looks like you have sold off a flagship for your Director’s well toted Ferrari – a flashy car that really isn’t that useful for those who might want to go out and actually drive around in more than a mid life crisis).
Read the very interesting article written today by Rick Salutin in the Globe and Mail.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/cbcs-new-news-is-scaaary/article1344349/

I think that your new format is going over like a lead balloon. Please what ever happened to the real news?

I know that CBC

Stursberg and Mcguire are not.

What nonsense!

I also find having the guests (and Peter) standing in the news segment lead me to pay less attention of what they are saying but how tall the guests are and how they look.

This may sound superficial but what if a guest on The National is much shorter than Peter? What if the guest sits on a wheel chair?

P.S. I also think CBC News Network is looking more like CNN and this is not a complement.

http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/television/article/716605–cbc-s-revamped-the-national-glitzy-but-a-little-contrived?bn=1

The new CBC NN seems to want to have a lot of wide 2 shots with people standing facing each other: possibly one of the ugliest camera angles ever imagined. Lets make everybody look uncomfortable. Please stop.

Still feel that CNN has more news per hour by a mile and as always BBC is unbeatable for world news.

People are standing up now, apparently that means something.

Bring on the purely hypothetical, but oddly specific questions!

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2009-10-27T13:11:56Z

Kady O'Malley

<![CDATA[Liveblogging Lobbying Commissioner Karen Shepherd at the Ethics committee 

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<![CDATA[Liveblogging Lobbying Commissioner Karen Shepherd at the Ethics committee As noted earlier in OotD, this morning's appearance by Lobbying Commissioner Karen Shepherd seems downright serendipitous. No, she won't be able to reveal any salient details about any of those rumoured or requested investigations that may or may not be underway, but it'll still be fascinating to hear what she has to say about her first official -- non-interim-ish, that is -- year on the job, so tune in at 9am for full liveblogging coverage. Oh, and I'm using CoverItLive, but I've disabled live comments in favour of ye olde traditional comment thread, so feel free to chat there. (I promise, it's not because I don't love you all, it's just too confusing to have all sorts of messages flooding in while I'm trying to liveblog.)  Note: If the CoverItLive app doesn't work on your browser, or if you'd just prefer the low-res version, click here. 

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Listening to Peter Armstrong stammer through World Report this morning didn’t make me feel any better about the changes.