On Oct. 9, 2007, Esther Enkin, then-acting editor in chief of CBC News, welcomed people to the editors' blog.

"Let the conversation begin," were the closing words of the inaugural post.

CBC News hasn't had anything to say through its blog since June 13.

Since then, the only two editorial pronouncements of note came from John Cruickshank, publisher of CBC News -- and they were billed as letters from the publisher, and not as more egalitarian postings on the editors' blog.

One was on the Mallick cock-up, and the second trumpeted CBC's performance on election coverage. Comments were opened up (there appeared to be a good mix of both positive and negative comments towards CBC), although I didn't notice any direct responses by Cruickshank.

It would appear that one person now speaks for CBC News, and it ain't through the editors' blog. And it ain't really a conversation.