Spec's Fuzzy Logic

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Spec's Fuzzy Logic, originally uploaded by nfotxn.

The CBC could very well be coming to town. And of course the reaction from the local paper is: QUICK FIND A DISTRACTION!

Taxes! Yes, taxes will do. Don't you care about your TAXES?!

Another municipality is going to take that station you backwards townies. Leave it to the only daily paper in town, privately owned, mostly syndicated and anti-competitive in nature to bring up the lamest argument ever. What they're really afraid of is somebody else doing effective local coverage and revealing just how lax CHCH (E Network), The Spectator and CHML have become. This market is ripe for effective coverage to build our communities, create a dialogue amongst citizens and generally get news about where we live. Today we're fed a diet of news that comes from Toronto, Calgary and syndication agencies around the world. Our news is all second hand. The attitude towards local news is that it takes the back page or the bumper between stories about "real" places or commercials.

That's insulting. We're a metro area of nearly 700,000 people. With no public broadcasting, one TV station and one xenophobic newspaper that does a terribly inconsistent job. How many residents do we need before lumping us in with Toronto is no longer effective? A million? A million and a half?

This is so parochial and old school Hamilton. Sorry Spectator Editorial Board, Hamilton takes itself seriously now. We deserve all the amenities of a real city. Better pull your socks up and start working. Or else you're going to get blown out of the water.

Comments

[nfotxn.livejournal.com]

I know! See how townie the media is here? It's insane how afraid they are of outside competition they are. Their bases are barely covered. Their idea of new media is a joke. Just check out their web site, complete with poor accessibility, daily copy errors that don't get resolved, no archives... I could make a huge list. The CBC has a whole system of publishing that they can just drop a Hamilton bureau into.

I hope the CBC reads their reaction. It's a clear indication they need to be here.

[bitterlawngnome.livejournal.com]

does anyone listen to radio anymore?

[bitterlawngnome.livejournal.com]

I live such a sheltered life.

[mamoosh.livejournal.com]

Here you go comment whoring again.

[nfotxn.livejournal.com]

Here you go being bitter about it.

[mamoosh.livejournal.com]

(pssst. Joke.)

[nfotxn.livejournal.com]

Psss, me too.

[mamoosh.livejournal.com]

Fuck! I flinched.

[nfotxn.livejournal.com]

We're never going to get this comedy show on the road if you keep flinching like that.

Spectator Crap.

[(Anonymous)]

I really do think a letter to the editor should be written encouraging the spectator to practice what it preaches, and simply close down shop, while offering subscribers discounts on subscriptions to the National Post.

I mean, if the private sector is always so briliant as to not re-invent the wheel for the Hamilton market, what is the spectator even doing in business? They should be called on this and that they should be ashamed to even have "Hamilton" in their masthead.