Todd Mundt

The anonymous blogger behind “The Teamakers” has gone on hiatus after nearly three remarkable years writing about the world inside public broadcasting.

I started reading Teamakers during the 2005 lockout because 1) it was written by a CBC manager who was working inside while everyone else was out on the street, and 2) it was pretty damn funny.

Public media in Canada is a different beast altogether from the US variation, but there are enough similarities that I felt this blog also had something to say to those of us south of the border. What “Ouimet” saw was sometimes a smart organization, often a hydra-headed bureaucracy of managers managing paper… and not often enough an organization focused on serving the Canadian people.

It’s one thing to have those opinions and offer them to your friends; it’s another entirely to say them publicly, even anonymously, when you’re in management.

This isn’t about denigrating the CBC, although that’s probably what many thought. If you love something, you want to make it better… whether you’re a manager who wants to overcome stifling bureaucracy, a new media person who wants to convince radio people to embrace new opportunities, or a fundraising consultant who wants stations to jettison bad practices and prosper.

We’re all in it, together.