NPR: Canada's new national broadcaster
I've finished listening to another week's worth of fascinating history, pop culture and book news. All of it American. This because the homegrown
CBC just cannot cope with emerging technology. I now listen to podcasts on my schedule, not that of the broadcasters. And it's the Americans who are providing the brain food.
The
MotherCorpse provides three possibilties -- a music show, a science show and the Toronto morning radio program. Like a Montrealer would care.
National Public Radio, down south, gives me dozens of specialized half-hours or more on media, health, environment, politics, technology. More than 200 podcast possibilities in all.
The CBC has forced me to seek elsewhere. Through its, what, laziness? stupidity? willful naivete? -- it's pushing us rights into the arms of the Americans.
ADDENDUM Feb. 5: I never did get a response from the CBC on my podcast query. Sad.