Wednesday, April 01, 2009

The so called controversial caribou hunt going on south of Goose Bay is perplexing. Perplexing in the sense I do not know who to believe. The map is courtesy of Labrador.
Without clear evidence, and that means a media presence or another unbiased observer, then all it boils down to is she said he said.
If the government has video footage that proves their case then some of it should be released to the public. Surely they don’t expect us to wait for the case to go to court [if it ever does], that could take years given the track record in the courts to date.

And Natalie Kalata's first venture outside the confines of Labrador City did not go very well, shades of Apocalypse Now, or Good Morning Vietnam on steroids.
I think it may have been her first story on Aboriginals, pity there were non around. Come to think of it the video shows nothing but some paunches and tracks of animals and snowmobiles.
And whose bright idea was it to do the piece from a chopper? Hard to hear what she is saying over the noise of the engine and the flapping of her right arm.
Natalie is 18 minutes in.

2 comments:

David said...

I agree very poor reporting.A waste of tax dollars.Sitting in a chopper and trying to talk over the motor.Not very bright.Where are the experinced reporters to guide these people.I know she is new,but is there not some previwing these pieces.She could have at least over dubbed

Brian said...

I can only suspect that people who make decisions on what makes it to air, and they are not in Labrador, do not really give a rats arse about stories of an aboriginal content.
Having said that CBC in general has been on top of this story, it is there bailiwick so to speak, so it would not look very good if they ignored it and something untoward happened.