Anyone noticed the drop in quality at the CBC?

Just wondering, as a former CBC employee I keep an eye on it and it has become horrible. I left the CBC about a year and a half ago because it became unbearable to work there. I remember they pulled us all into a room and brought in the new manager, an ex private TV guy. He told us how they had hired the Frank Magged group to consult. Then he talked about how we were not going to be so much traditional reporters anymore, but gatherers and dispensers of information. In other words we were just providing content more than context. I put up my hand and asked if we were going to become ambulance chasers. I was assured we would not be, I knew that was a line.

Now I go to the CBC and see nothing but murder and mayhem stories, sensationalized headlines and stories, poor grammar, the whole deal. Yesterday a headline read "MP Guergis unhurt in car accident." So she was hurt and magically cured during the accident? When I started there I got my knuckles rapped for using the phrase "over 200" instead of "more than 200." Now that attention to quality is gone.

Problem is, nothing seems to get done about it because cons have made such a habit of attacking the CBC that old school CBC listeners won't do the same when its warranted for fear of adding to the barrage of insults. (PS, I always found most of these cons never even listen to the CBC.)

Anyway, if you are unhappy please don't be scared to tell them.

Long ago.

No more ideas on Ideas.

Repeats of all the shows.

Overnight is a joke.

Morning shows use other networks shows.

Talk show from 10PM to 11PM is a guy that can't listen to anyone.

FM is full of BS. Beside fill that is probably meant to be for future advertising.

Could go on.

The only program that is hanging on is As It Happens. And they have been cut down to one person.

It used to be the place you went for the true story, not the sensational story.
Paul Martin was right when he talked about the "dumbing down of Canadians".
Problem is, I can't watch CTV with all the blonds hyper-ventilating ether.

I don't watch the TV but have listened to CBC radio for years. Thanks to the budget cuts it is now but a shadow of its former self. I feel like I've lost an old friend. It is still better than anything else on the air, though, IMHO.

I was a devoted listener for 30+ years until about 10 years ago when our local shows were took over by neo-cons (from Ontario, no less...).

Then Barbara died. Then Peter, and then they changed the last program I could tolerate to a 3 hour crapfest of unproven CanCom.

A much narrower view of the public it is supposed to be representing.

Glad you brought this up. But I think it's a generational thing. I refuse to let them piss me off.

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