Jennifer McGuire, Editor in Chief of CBC News;
In the past few years, we introduced concrete language about conflict of interest into our Journalistic Standards and Practices. In the past few weeks we have completed a more detailed review of our policies, and have decided to amend some of our practices.
As always with left-progressia the “standards” they set only apply to those they disagree with.
We will be watching to see if they apply this lofty pretentious “standard” to the pony boy and remind him of his transgression of their high conflict of interest “standards”.
Pull the plug on this “standards” back hole.
“She said this was driven in part by a campaign by the Sierra Club, who motivated volunteers to write in.”
Naturally of course this policy will be selectively enforced. Don’t expect David Suzuki to be impacted by it in any way.
Of course the “John How” mentioned is not just a retired meteorologist. He’s an environmental activist. Just google “John How” Sierra Terrace, BC
Here’s one of his LTTEs
http://issuu.com/blackpress/docs/i20120711072300151
One Rex goes off the reservation and all hell breaks loose…
When the CBC starts monitoring political content to more equally reflect Canadian values is when I’ll start tuning in.
Now that the CBC has lost all HNIC revenue starting next year I suspect the true nature of the beast will manifest more often. The wackos who dominate the some odd 8000 employees will direct this taxpayer funded neo-com sharply left.
I haven’t watched CBC TV for many years. Perhaps if they actually acknowledged their mistakes/errors/untruths when exposed and perhaps retracted many such statements I could take them more seriously.
As a taxpayer I resent a publicly funded org that continuously promotes a left wing agenda. Harper’s ‘death by a thousand cuts’ is not fast enough for me.
Straining at gnats and swallowing camels! Almost two-thirds of every CBC employee’s salary is paid by one entity – that also happens to be the single largest subject of reportage. How’s that for an undisclosed conflict of interest? If the critics of Rex Murphy are right, then is not the CBC ethically bound to refuse, on principle, the annual subsidy from the government of Canada?
If one expands the CBC logo for a close up view, the pixels reveal themselves to be the Liberal Party of Canada banner.
If it wasn’t for the blogs I would have no idea who Rex Murphy is or what he does for a living. Just as a side question if it true that Rex is a giver of opinion does he have an exclusive contract with the CBC? In other words has he entered a contract to offer his opinions only on CBC? If not then the CBC will have difficulty keeping him from accepting speaking fees.
Defund this “public” institution now. End of story.
Heh. Great comment.
Rex Murphy: “… members of the liberal intelligentsia, that herd of independent minds …”
Reading the article, the CBC said they wouldn’t (and admitted they COULDN’T) prevent Rex from doing what he wants, as he is a freelance contributor. However, they said they would be updating their contracts so that he had to disclose any paid speaking engagements. If he signs a new contract with the CBC, he would have to disclose who paid him to speak.
Sounds like an invasion of privacy to me. When you hire a contractor to redo your bathroom, do you insist on knowing everyone else who paid him to put in a toilet?
With my many years on-line. I’ve never heard so much bloviating
sprinkled with misinformation BS.
Next time an article like this is printed make sure a honey wagon is about, along with barf bags. CBC has become MSNBC of Canada. Its neither Canadian ( Unless you figure only Toronto is Canadian) nor reflects the politics, art, socials concerns, of none Socialists.
The CBC is the propaganda wing of the Liberal Party. hence the MSNBC remark. We all know they are just puppets for the DNC.
Make CBC private!!
Emanuel’s Plan to Build Elite ‘Barack Obama High School’ in an Upscale Chicago Neighborhood Has Parents Enraged
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2014/04/25/emanuels-plan-to-build-elite-barack-obama-high-school-in-an-upscale-chicago-neighborhood-has-parents-enraged/
So, CBC was okay with Turdo la Doo absenting himself from Parliament and screwing taxpayers out of thirty grand for an hour-long talk at a college.
And they were okay with Peter Peter Dollar-Eater doing essentially the same thing.
But it only became a matter of “principle” when a free-enterpriser-CBC-Contractor collected speaking fees from corporations.
I can’t wait for the day when every last one of these hypocritical CBC parasites is waiting in a soup line. Rex has nothing to worry about, he can take care of himself.