at the CBC during the CMG lockout. The Canadian Press reports that the games being broadcast without announcers have attracted record audiences – and not just for the first game presented in this format, which was a novelty – the ratings are going up each time.

Note that I would love to point to the Globe and Mail article on the subject, but they’ve locked it up behind a pay wall. So yet again a major newspaper has given up the opportunity to be authoritative and to make a contribution to the public dialogue on issues of interest to Canadians. As they do hundreds of times a week, every time they block a story.

several times already, but nevertheless Cintra Wilson’s story about the White House press corps is worth a read: I invaded the White House press corps.

at the CBC outside of Quebec (and Moncton, NB) at the moment, but some CBC producers have put together www.cbcunplugged.com, a site where you can go to listen to podcasts of your favourite radio personalities. It seems that Tod Maffin got the ball rolling but a wider group of producers is now behind the effort.

I hope this gets resolved quickly, because the radio landscape in Ottawa is pretty barren. A couple of years ago there was a similar problem in Quebec and at that time I switched to a local sports radio station, The Team 990 (CKGM). Trouble is, sports radio in Ottawa is not nearly of the same caliber that we had in Montreal. Too much macho jock-talk.