Comments on: MyCBC: Will this new media also get new rules?

By: Justin Beach

Justin Beach — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 21:25:29 +0000

On the original question, I’d propose the following rule/guidline – “It is better to apologize than ask permission”. I’d like to see a little more of that at the Ceeb.

I don’t know how ‘citizen journalism’ is going to affect professional journalism, or freelance journalism. I do know that it will affect it, and I know that it will happen whether CBC gets involved or not, and I’m pretty sure that if CBC doesn’t get involved the affect (ratings and revenue wise) on all CBC Journalists will be greater than whatever impact ‘citizen journalism’ might have.

By: Kathleen Flaherty

Kathleen Flaherty — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:00:23 +0000

As a listener/viewer, I am both intrigued and perturbed by all the ‘citizen journalist’ stuff available. Intrigued because it feels like a public conversation and it is changing politics and life. Perturbed because it’s mostly crap and I have not enough hours in a day as it is. So much so that I subscribe to online journals that are sorting it out for me as I speak! If we do it for the right reasons and share it well, it will be wonderful. If not, it’ll just be fashion and, like fringes on bell-bottoms, missing the whole point of the underlying philosophy.

By: Joe Clark

Joe Clark — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 18:31:29 +0000

In what way did Galipeau “develop” BlogTV? It was licensed from an Israeli company (and, moreover, has 1996-era code, with 112 layout tables on the homepage). Remember: Nobody talks about anything but YouTube, and nobody goes to Alliance Atlantis for news.

By: Antonia

Antonia — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 17:59:28 +0000

I can remember a time when CBC Engineering would not allow home videos on the air, no matter how spectacular. It didn’t matter if somebody had captured a destructive tornado or a 50 car pile-up on the 401, it didn’t meet “standards.”

Makes me laugh now.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 15:24:13 +0000

Oh no! We’ll have to come up with something more innovative than a geofenced Youtube clone!

By: Dwight Williams

Dwight Williams — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 13:38:29 +0000

Don:

My thinking as a viewer runs this way: Journalists, freelance and staff alike, will still be needed to help make sense of all the incoming material. In fact, I’d say they’ll be needed more than ever and their skills will be focused more and more in an investigative direction to build on the raw material supplied by the public at large. Your jobs aren’t nearly done for yet. And if anyone in upper management at CBC believes it ought to be otherwise, they’re dreaming in Virtual Reality.

By: s judge

s judge — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 12:36:07 +0000

Promo girl on Radio One is MIA, though I hear her voice in Sears commercials. What happened to her?

By: Don Genova

Don Genova — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 07:19:13 +0000

Gee, I hope with all this blaring of ‘citizen journalism’ that the CBC doesn’t forget about its talented core of freelance journalists, the journalists it has constantly demanded more and more from in terms of broadcast rights over the past few years with measly increases in rates to go along with those demands.

The last thing we need is a posse of ‘citizen journalists’ going out there armed with cellphone cameras and cheapo DV cams taking away our right to make a living because producers will have ‘so much material’ to work with. Some reassurances in a commitment to keep commissioning freelance journalists from the top would certainly help.

A concerned freelance journalist