Wednesday, August 24, 2005
CBC lockout XX: Has balance gone out along with the journalists?
Pat Robertson crosses the line--to CBC
How is the ombudsman at CBC going to deal with this? C.C. Radio VP Jane Chalmers and Radio News managers.
Since I am not listening to CBC Radio I cannot confirm this story, and having dealt with myself with complaints to the ombudsman (sent down through channels) I know some are legitimate, some are off the wall, some are one sided and most often the complaints are a little bit of all three.
According a letter posted on a website called Globalresearcher.ca, CBC Radio (or CBC Radio managers) filled the airtime with what appears to be raw audio of US tele-evangelist Pat Robertson's call for the murder of the Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez Frias.
So this is what it's come to. If this is true, one has to weep.
Despite what the right claims, the one thing that is drilled into everyone at CBC day after day is balance, balance, balance.
CBC Radio News is the jewel in the crown at the CBC, for the media in Canada. And now it apparently has been reduced to running raw tape. Maybe Radio News is picking up hints from TV Sports on how to operate but this isn't football.
If Newsworld had been on, if there had been As It Happens, or The Current or the current affairs portion of the National, Canadians would have heard analysis of the story from all sides, the kind of analysis I saw on CNN (and probably appeared on NewsNet but I was at the TBC most of the day).
Again if anyone in authority inside the TBC would send me their side of this issue, I will post it.
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8:32 AM posted by Robin Rowland
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Pat Robertson crosses the line--to CBC
How is the ombudsman at CBC going to deal with this? C.C. Radio VP Jane Chalmers and Radio News managers.
Since I am not listening to CBC Radio I cannot confirm this story, and having dealt with myself with complaints to the ombudsman (sent down through channels) I know some are legitimate, some are off the wall, some are one sided and most often the complaints are a little bit of all three.
According a letter posted on a website called Globalresearcher.ca, CBC Radio (or CBC Radio managers) filled the airtime with what appears to be raw audio of US tele-evangelist Pat Robertson's call for the murder of the Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez Frias.
So this is what it's come to. If this is true, one has to weep.
Despite what the right claims, the one thing that is drilled into everyone at CBC day after day is balance, balance, balance.
CBC Radio News is the jewel in the crown at the CBC, for the media in Canada. And now it apparently has been reduced to running raw tape. Maybe Radio News is picking up hints from TV Sports on how to operate but this isn't football.
If Newsworld had been on, if there had been As It Happens, or The Current or the current affairs portion of the National, Canadians would have heard analysis of the story from all sides, the kind of analysis I saw on CNN (and probably appeared on NewsNet but I was at the TBC most of the day).
Again if anyone in authority inside the TBC would send me their side of this issue, I will post it.
Technorati tags
writing, journalism, CBC, blog, news,
Pat Robertson,
Venezuela
8:32 AM posted by Robin Rowland
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