And southern newspapers reported this week that CBC has been under pressure from the Liberal government for several months to identify itself more closely with the Canadian government by incorporating a flag-bearing logo in its newscasts. But Laurie Jones, a spokeswoman for CBC, said that it is not unusual for the public broadcaster to act both as producer and news gatherer at the same event. It's not the news department that does that. It's not the news department at all. That's quite different from news coverage.
News coverage is news coverage.
It's taking voice clips, you know, and doing interviews with people. That's news coverage. Kilabuk said that without some financial help, IBC will have neither the equipment nor the human resources to provide the live Inuktitut coverage it had hoped for. Our last contingency will be just to cover it on tape and put it on our weekly current affairs show. With nearly 2,000 unionized technical workers already on strike, and the threat of further labour disruptions among editorial staff in the coming weeks, there is now a real possibility that CBC's ability to cover April 1 events in Nunavut will be jeopardized.