Occasionally I’ll tune in CBC News while driving, if I can pick up a local station. And after the news it doesn’t take long to turn the CBC off in disgust. Although sometimes I just have to listen a little longer.
Like the time where there was going to be an open line call in show on what do you think about the Freedom Convoy. The first few calls that came in were ambivalent to supportive and the host was obviously getting annoyed with the direction the callers were going, so after a few minutes the host switched to a “guest” freelance reporter. And for the last three-quarters of the “open line” show the host and the guest had a great time smearing the hundreds of millions of people around the world who supported the protest.
I thought the most humorous angle of the show was the conspiracy theory by the guest about a conspiracy theory to overthrow the government. A conspiracy about a conspiracy, brought to you by your most trusted news provider. Good for a laugh, anyway.
Before the complete collapse of CBC into irrelevance, I did take a story to the CBC that I thought was interesting.
Everyone knows that Tim Hortons used outside speakers to play the CBC opera station to discourage the nuisance people from affecting their business location.
Well, I had a similar problem on my new golf course, but it was with moose trampling the greens at night. A moose walking on the greens cuts the surface to ribbons and is unplayable in the morning and I needed a solution.
Remembering the success of the other businesses that played CBC to drive off unwanted traffic, I installed three radios in the far corners of the golf course that switched on at dark and played all night. It was a little strange feeling to be out in the golf course at night and hear an opera singer belting out an opera boogie.
That should be the end of the story but it’s not. It didn’t work. Since moose liked the opera, I decided they would hate hard rock and I blasted the moose with more music, but the moose didn’t seem to mind hard rock at all either.
Finally, I found what the moose hated was the CBC talk shows! People get on CBC and talk all night about nothing. And the moose couldn’t stand listening to all the crabbing and complaining on CBC and left.
I was so excited I marched into the CBC office to tell them my great Canadian success story. But CBC was not interested, and so my marvellous story, where I had found a CBC channel that did something useful, was ignored. I was getting my money’s worth out of CBC and they didn’t care.
Apparently, the CBC local content had a no-humour rule as well.
Lee Sexsmith
Prince George
