Rural abandonment.

The Amundsen arrived in port yesterday, the on board chopper immediately started to ferry staff on board for the Inuit Health Survey.

The state of CBC television coverage of Labrador has taken a big hit in the negative.
This has been in the works for some time, sadly I have not heard of any objections to the dumbing down.

This is how I see the situation at the moment: The powers that be at CBC have cut back on travel budgets for the videographer stationed in Labrador. In the past this position was based in HV-GB.

With travel constraints the videographer was really unable to do justice to all the areas of Labrador, especially to coastal communities.

Over the summer the resident videographer switched allegiances and went into radio as co host of Labrador morning.

There was for a short time a fill in videographer, this person has moved on leaving the position vacant.

I have heard that a person is to be/or has been hired for the role of videographer. This position will be now based in Labrador City.

With low to no travel budget this leaves the coast, and most likely Lake Millville, out of luck when it comes to television coverage, no more stories on Here & Now for you, unless of course some drunken natives go on the war path, in which case the videographer will be on the first available charter.

With the public broadcaster leaving Labrador out in the cold vis a vis television reportage it seems like the private sector may pick up the slack, to what extent and how good coverage is not known.

What I do know is that Michael Johansen is doing some video reportage in the Goose Bay area for NTV. Maybe he is freelancing, no matter, the fact is that CBC is again not living up to its mandate and ignoring Rural Canada...........arse holes.

As a rule I do not watch NTV news or any other of their programs for that matter. I did attempt to watch their evening news hour, it clashes with Here & Now, is not as good a quality technically and had very poor coverage of things outside of the Avalon.

Maybe I will have to re consider my viewing habits, especially as I really only watch CBC television for the news, if they are to abandon coverage of where I live then shag em, may as well go with the other guy, especially if the other guy makes an effort to do some local stories, how local is still an unknown.

Now this is a switch, years behind where they should be retrospect of alternative energy, but none the less some what encouraging.

The group of parents and children who protested the excessive heat in the school have seemingly wrangled a meeting with the minister of education today, good for them.