CBC's Shelagh Rogers, host of Sounds Like Canada (heard in happier times on CBC Radio One) kicked off her one-woman (and two producers) outreach program yesterday called Caravan Unlocked.

She plans to travel across Canada during the lockout, visiting CMG picket lines and talking to people.

Besides doing the blog, she also did her first podcast from Victoria (which you can link to from the blog, along with a slide show).

Democracy Now! talked with two journalists who have written about the hurricane hazard facing New Orleans: Mark Fischetti, contributing editor of Scientific American, and John McQuaid of the New Orleans Times-Picayune.

Former Chatelaine editor Kim Pittaway quit after 11 months in the job (and years as a contributing editor), citing editorial independence issues.

Zerby quotes from a CMG newsletter issued Thursday that three of the top executives at the CBC have no real hands-on experience in the creative, journalistic or technical ends of the public broadcaster.

That seems to be the message of CFL fans after the broadcast of a few announcer-less CFL games.

The Globe and Mail's Margaret Wente stands up for the public broadcaster she loves to complain about.

The NYT's David Brooks looks at the political repercussions of major disasters like Hurricane Katrina.

From the Salon blurb: In 2001, FEMA warned that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in the U.S. But the Bush administration cut New Orleans flood control funding by 44 percent to pay for the Iraq war.

I added an excerpt from an NYT editorial too.

Saw this first at Canadian Journalist (thanks Deb!): Slate's Jack Shafer on two issuses related to the tragedy unfolding in in New Orleans that are going unspoken by U.S. networks: race and class.

The Times-Picayune newspaper did a series in 2002 called Washing Away on the dangers to New Orleans of a catastrophic hurricane striking. Some of it is looking disturbingly prophetic now.

Take this blurb:

THE BIG ONE A major hurricane could decimate the region, but flooding from even a moderate storm could kill thousands. It's just a matter of time.

Some parts of the U.S. blogosphere are apoplectic over two photo captions from different agencies of apparent "looting" by blacks in New Orleans -- but "finding" by whites. However, did they over-react?