Tuesday, September 21, 2004

CBC squealers

CBC TRIES TO SKEWER COMPETITION
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC home) squealed to Reuters on CanWest.
A CBC reporter contacted the news agency after noticing that a Reuters story in last Tuesday's National Post was altered.

The result was this story that quickly disappeared.

CBS HUMILIATION
Globe and Mail refer to CBS's "humiliating apology" calling it " a huge blow to the credibility of CBS and its 60 Minutes public-affairs program," ending with the unexpected conclusion. HERE
The apology is the latest in a series of scandals that have questioned the journalistic ethics of leading U.S. news media, including The New York Times and USA Today.

It's fair to say that the left leaning Globe and Mail are not happy with the ineptness of our own left leaning media. Since the Globe and Mail has hidden their columnists and editorials and even their letters behind a subscription wall, we can't read Margaret Wente, but it's a safe bet she was gonna skewer CBS too. "After a series of increasingly absurd efforts to defend the indefensible... "

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