Mitch Diamantopoulos, head of the U of R School Of Journalism and a founder of prairie dog, is on the CBC right now, defending the need for a well-funded independent public broadcaster. Go listen! Links to follow.
UPDATE: Listen online here.
UPDATE 2: Listen old-school at 540 a.m., 102.5 FM.
Hilarious moment: a caller (a CBC supporter) was just asked by Blue Sky host Garth Materie to take a guess at the average salary of local journalists. The caller guessed $80K. (Possible correction: publisher Terry says the guy said $60 K.)
And everyone working in local journalism laughs, and laughs and laughs.
I don't have numbers but I guarentee if we're talking about average, we're looking at well south of $40 K. I wouldn't be shocked if it was under $30, on average.
UPDATE 3: Some stupid asshole caller is calling the CBC biased against conservatism (oops am I using loaded, non-impartial language here?) and is using as his example the CBC industry's alleged non-coverage of a recent phoney scientific conference in New York denying man-made global warming. Uh huh. Well, maybe consensus theories about global warming are incorrect. Also, maybe Jesus rode dinosaurs, evolution is just a crazy hypothesis and gravity is all wrong--we're really held to the planet by underground magnets buried 2000 years ago by angels.
Apparently CBC opponents = global warming deniers. By the way, that conference was briefly blogged about on dog blog, here.
The CBC is a lot more polite to anti-fact terrorists than prairie dog will ever be, let me tell you.
UPDATE 4: Well, the show's over. If I can find out about a re-broadcast time, I'll let you know.
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- The editor of prairie dog, a news and entertainment magazine published every two weeks in Regina, Saskatchewan. Really.
2 comments:
how about something in the next prairie dog on CBC pay? i'd like to know what highest earner in regina earns, you don't need to name them - i'd also like to know a new recruit earns
at the same time, why not challenge John Gormley to says how much he earns and how much the minnows at CJME earn
the poor wage and lack of job security eventually eats away at a journalist's dignity and forces them into dipsy-doodle communications or real estate sales.
I think a CBC reporter spends their first ten years as a casual and earns $20/hour working sporadically--they should be happy. They earn in 22 hours a week what a small town print journalist earns in 40 hours, living in the city and working for the majestic Mother Corp.
If you ever think a CBC reporter has it bad, just look into wages and working conditions in private radio/TV/print.
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