“Low Morale, Poor Leadership, and a General Malaise”
Howard Bernstein’s blog Medium Close Up, published an anonymous email that is apparently from a “concerned group” of CBC News staff to CBC President Hubert Lacroix.
Bernstein, a former television producer who worked at CBC, says the email is “a terrible indictment of where CBC News is at today. Low morale, poor leadership, and a general malaise have overtaken the place.”
I cannot verify that the email is authentic, although I find it surprising that news staffers would misspell John Cruickshank’s name as “Crookshank”. Further comments over at the Tea Makers also raise doubts about the authenticity of the letter, one commentator says “Are you joking? This wasn’t written by anyone who was in the station that day,” while another chimes in “I can’t believe anyone has fallen for this.”
Now John Doyle at the Globe and Mail has picked up on the thread and wrote about the letter today.
Do you work at CBC News, if so what are your impressions? Is this email an accurate representation? Or is it a fake?
The full email is available here.
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Check with anyone in the Edmonton Newsroom. They will fill you in on who the “concerned group” really is and what the truth is behind this.
If Bernstein was as sloppy and lazy in checking the background of his stories when he was at the Corp a he obviously is now all I can say is he is in a much better place npw.
For real fun check out the Teamakers blog on this subject. The comments on this from the people in the know (starting about halfway down) are priceless.
The CBC doth protest too much. I never gave any credence to the letter. In fact I ridiculed it. I did check to see that it came to me from inside the CBC and that it was written by a CBC staffer. It was.
How about the real issue? Low morale and bad leadership. If you got your head out of the sand long enough to look around you you might see what is going on. I love the Corp. Most of the people complaining about CBC love the Corp. We love it enough to protest the stupid decisions and thoughtlessness that are ruining our most important cultural institution. We would just walk away if we did not care.
Stop arguing with every criticism and do something about the malaise.