The CBC has no problem with its employees opinions, provided those opinions conform to the organizational bias. Here's a note sent to the CBC Ombudsman on Sept. 4th. (Not that it will make any difference at Mothercorp!)

CBC Ombudsman:

Why is it that, whenever the CBC reports on the war in Afghanistan, it dwells lovingly on Canadian casualties but says little or nothing of substance about military operations?

Canada's presence in Afghanistan is a subject for legitimate political debate, but there is no excuse for dragging that debate into what should be unbiased news reporting. Tonight on Newsworld, Carole MacNeil's palpable gloating over the four latest military deaths was very hard to stomach.

The Panjwii offensive seems to have been a successful operation (we used to call such things"victories") but, on CBC Radio this morning, the announcer referred to it as a "disaster" because four soldiers were killed. Unfortunately, I didn't catch her name.

In more than four years, we have lost 31 killed in Afghanistan. In WWI and WWII, it wasn't unusual to have that many killed in just a few minutes. They were mourned by their families and friends, but individual casualties didn't produce the mawkish public breast beating to which we are exposed by the CBC. Of course it's tragic when young people are struck down in their prime, but much larger numbers are slaughtered on Canadian highways, and the CBC doesn't ghoulishly dwell on them.

Please, a little balance. If your news anchors want to make anti-war statements, let them do it on their own time, when they don't have to make any pretence of being unbiased.

In their next breath, Radio Canada/CBC/NDP will say "Yes, but we dooooo support the troops". -- Bullshit!

Incredible...

Suspended for supporting the troops!

Just incredible!

Freedom of expression in the press? Yeah, suuuure!

Ohhh... that's the MSM, after all... to hell with them... we bloggers can express support for the troops and not get suspended... we can say anything we want.

This begs the question: are reporters merely mouthpieces for some leftist elites in fancy offices deeming what they shall say to the people? Are they mere automatons?

Why not replace them with robots... or just a little speaker on a table? What difference will it make?

Why not have a chimpanzee pretend to read the news and have subtitles tell us what it is?

Chimps would attract a larger audience than some boring human reading from a piece of paper just handed to them...

FIRED ?? For supporting our troops. Pathetic.

Have any Canadian Jornalists been fired for BAD MOUTHING our troops ?? Like saying our soldiers act like terrorists ??

Would someone, please, list countries that have lost their Democracy, or never gained it, because of Media corruption. Russia-Pravda, ect. Canada may be closer than we think.

I have to agree with the CBC report about poor Samir Qantar held in an Israeli prison for 27 years, for merely slaughtering a father and his 4 year old daughter.

No, they shouldn't have imprisoned Samir, they should have shot the sonofabitch on the spot.

Canadian reporters openly support terrorists with no reprisals.

They're not against the war, they're just on the other side.

dmorris, that's my feeling also...guess we just both think "disproportionately".

It wasn't so much that she expressed her opinion, but rather that she expressed the wrong one.

http://hallsofmacadamia.blogspot.com/2006/09/this-is-your-cbc.html

when i first read about this sociopath back in july, it made me sick to my stomach. now my tax dollars are being used to whip up sympathy for his cause.

this is insane.

Good news - we know they fired her for supporting the troops, but they said they fired her for expressing an opinion - so Canadians should hold them to that standard. Bye, bye Lawand!

Yet another insulting display by CBC politburo executives. One would think this should convince any Canadians with their own minds that the CBC as a national broadcaster has reached it's end in usefullnes to our nation. Worse yet, CBC has become damaging on may levels to Our countries' future with it's hidden and selfish agenda.

I hereby vote as a taxpayer to fire them all and discontinue operations of CBC as they do not speak for the true culture, opinion, ethics and humour of Canada. We pay their salaries; let's end it, putting political pressure on them to make it happen once and for all.

Put the billions of dollars we waste on these quasi-bureaucrats, elitist, arrogant fools into: healthcare, infrastructure, education...and yes, more world class training and equipment for our heroic volunteers in our military. By investing in those things we will re-establish our vision for the future...not their perverse vision.

The socialist scum running the CBC should all be fired and tried for treason! What a great day CBC/Pravda is shut down for good. This story is a pathetic commentary on the state of a significant portion of Canadian society today.

It isn't necessary to fire everyone at the CBC. Simply sell the network... to Conrad Black.

For those that do not want to stand behind our troops I welcome them all to stand in front of them.

Last night the CBC insisted on calling Al Queda a "militant group."

maybe the communist broadcast corp could do it's job, and investigate who is providing weapons etc to the taliban...u know, the ones killing our soldiers, canadian soldiers.....geez

Today, a female news reader at the CBC referred to the combat in Aghanistan as "the so-called War on Terror."

It's at moments like this that you can't help wondering how the CBC will respond when TTC trains get blown to bits because the terrorists have decided that it's Canada's turn. I wonder if the CBC, in the event, would continue to allude to the conflict in the ME as "the so-called War on Terror."

At the moment, there's little that PMSH and his government can do. The "doctrine of reserve" is their best refuge, until such time as the Canadian public gives them the mandate to completely overhaul this bloated, taxpayer-funded broadcasting corp.

The CBC's been run into the ground by its incompetence. If only Canadians would take off their blinkers.

This seems apropo:

"Canada trapped in September 10"

www.politicswatch.com/911-sept8-2006.htm

I'm for the war, but against the troops.

In the early days of the recent conflict in south Lebanon Nahlah Ayed had a brief interview with the Lebanese Prime Minister, which she set up with an odd, unnecessary, clearly fawning statement describing how "interesting" he was.

He said nothing even remotely interesting or insightful, rather, he just displayed the typical overheated righteous illogic that crusaders against a Jewish state in the ME typically employ. Gee, so interesting.

It's deeply disturbing to see Ms. Ayed giving warm, glowing tribute to the family of terrorist child-murderer Samit Qanter, and her not-so-subtle portrayal of this vile thug as an object of sympathy. In the new Canada that the Lib/left has brought us, I guess that's called "balance", or if you prefer, being an "honest broker".

Yeszz, a guy who breaks into an innocent Jewish family's apartment, proceeds to murder the father in front of his four-year-old daughter, and then bashes the girl's head in with the butt of a rifle is really just fighting the good fight against the Zionists. Who but the CBC could bring us such insights?

What a hateful little, dangerous spectre Ayed is, hiding behind her blithe insinuating tone. I wonder how the Haran family would feel about Canada regularly providing her with a coast-to-coast broadcast podium.

This isn't about Arab versus Jew, this is about Ayed abnegating all fundamental decency while lecturing us rubes, in a superior tone, about her "insights" from the ME. Truly disgusting. I don't know what can be done about CBC's culture.

why wouldnt CBCpravda support terrorists? their overlords the Liberal party of Canada, openly solicites donations from the Tamils and openly considers granting charity status to Hezb'allah.

forgot to mention CBCpravdas unfailing support of the Khadr family. any whine made by bitchmamma Khadr is reported in detail and great sympathy.

Give CBC to Conrad Black. He can run it into the ground or pay off his American creditors. See Rick Mercer start his new show " talking with Siberians"

It probably would have been alright if she was at least holding a white flag.

I support our troops to get out of Afghanistan.
You tories use their blood to score political points. You try to get nationalism going full throttle. I think Harper is a lot like hitler. A little dictator. I hope his party are booted out not to soon for me.

And you're a lot like Sergeant Schultz, seeing as you know nothing...

BATB:

If Canada started getting hit by terrorist attacks, CBCPravda would simply take the position that we deserve it because we have troops in Afghanistan fighting the peace-loving, benevolant Taliban.

They would start working on building a sense of urgency in the style of "We have to rally together and pressure PM Harper to get us out of this so-called War on Terror." This would be followed by a doubling or tripling of coverage about what Jack Layton thinks.

By the way, did you notice that Layton has recently started talking about how we are now officially behing the Iraq war. His logic goes like this: We are in Afghanistan...Bush keeps mentioning Afghanistan and Iraq in the same speeches...therefore, we are part of the war in Iraq. CBC keeps reporting this crap. There is nothing that they won't do to preserve the apologist stance.

Perhaps (and only perhaps) if the CBC itself were a target, they might tone down their tune. But, then again, maybe they'd just start painting themselves as victims of Harper and Bush.

I hate the CBC like poison. Every time I hear one of their empty-headed reporters refer to the "so-called" war on terror, I want to throw something through the TV. I have heard many CBC reporters say negative things about the war, and that has been tolerated. The CBC is useless and a huge waste of money and I resent once cent of MY taxes being used for this leftist crap!

I gave up on the Chretien Broadcasting Corporation decades ago. They have no professionalism; no analytical ability. They do surpass any other news reputable agency for yellow journalism, though. The Liberano$$ just love them.

I remember in the '72 election when Trudeau was poised to loose his only majority government in all his years as PM. David Lewis was poised to become the new leader of the opposition. The CBC started adding that he would be the first Jewish leader of any official opposition party at every opportunity they got about one week before the election. Trudeau's Catholicism was never mentioned. Lewis lost his bid that election.

I gave up on the Chretien Broadcasting Corporation decades ago. They have no professionalism; no analytical ability. They do surpass any other news reputable agency for yellow journalism, though. The Liberano$$ just love them.

I remember in the '72 election when Trudeau was poised to loose his only majority government in all his years as PM. David Lewis was poised to become the new leader of the opposition. The CBC started adding that he would be the first Jewish leader of any official opposition party at every opportunity they got about one week before the election. Trudeau's Catholicism was never mentioned. Lewis lost his bid that election.

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In 2 days we will remember why we are over there!
And Yes, the hypocrites(CBC & Taliban Jack)will be front & centre with there sad faces paying tribute to those that lost their lives & those that have continued on.
Remember

To be fair to the CBC, they treat domestic (and U.S.) murderers and their victims in the same way as they did the PLO murderer. (Except for mass murderers of prostitutes and children--the prostitutes out of p.c. victimology theory [and not out of ordinary peoples' sympathy for all such victims] and out of fear of viewer retribution if they were sympathetic to Olson-types.)

"Radio-Canada suspended her for breaching internal rules that stipulate employees are not allowed to express their opinions on controversial issues,"

Bwaaaa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha hee hee hooo wow that's a rich little mind fart there. ;-)

This rule never stopped our governor general from using CBC to mouth off at her ideological/political enemies....nor any of the other 2 dozen axe grinders CBC has in its employ....including Rick Mercer.

The only conclusion left from a statement like that is to assume that bias on controversial subjects is allowed at CBC as long as that bias in line with senior editorial commanders.

Not that this is a new revelation, but the CBC patriarchs like Pat Watson pride themselves on making CBC a major voice on controversy....so what’s up with revisiting the anti-controversy regs at this late date and in this particular case...well obviously this person's opinion is not linear with the political line/agenda the CBC wonks are marketing at the moment.

CBC/CTV/NBC/ABC/CNN all the crap in different packages. Put this incident down to just another reason why the internet is undermining the MSM as a first choice news and commentary source.

'Taliban Jack' needs to experience life in Afghanistan, as do many of the leftist creeps that seem to be so prevalent in our media. Perhaps if he witnessed the stonings, hangings, beheadings, beatings, and burnings practiced by the 'army of god', it might wipe that cocky little smirk off his face. This man should be charged with treason. Funny, everything the NDP so loudly stands for is being violated by the hairy neanderthals that our troops are attempting to subdue. Layton is nothing more than a terrorist-collaborator/sympathizer...a clown-like propagandist, who would be taken more seriously if he rode around parliment hill on a f**king unicycle. I cannot fathom how so many Canadians can be so bloody blind and stupid that they can support this idiological flake.

CBC: Canadian Bullshit Corporation, treat it as such, you won't be disappointed.
It's a very dangerous situation. No government in a democracy should sit by and allow a public Broadcast system to skew the facts to manipulate opinion.
This is shades of Pravda.
We should be taking these complaints to our government and demand action. It's our money at work and it's working against us.

Christine St-Pierre is smart. Getting fired from the CBC should help her get a real job in radio elsewhere. Smart way to climb the corporate ladder.

dmorris:

" No, they shouldn't have imprisoned Samir, they should have shot the sonofabitch on the spot."

I have to disagree there. It should be LIFE TO SUICIDE KILLERS not DEATH TO SUICIDE KILLERS.

Letting them rot for a lifetime is much better than providing them what htey seek. We could maybe feed them on pork and beans, as well.

Mississauga Matt:

Last night the CBC insisted on calling Al Queda a "militant group."

... who undoubtedly run hospitals and give lollipops to little children.

I rarely listen to it, never watch the TV. But I usually like the Saturday morning Political program.

Today, though, was a disgrace. They had a "comedy" show, put on by the gay married lesbian mothers of the Winnipeg Comedy Festival called "Right Turn" or somesuch.

It was just a bunch of lefties making snide remarks to each other about PMSH. It wasn't funny, at best predictable, certainly pathetic It displayed the vaucity of the left.

latest headline from CBCpravda

NATO soldier dies as fighting rages in Afghanistan

you have to go deep into the story to find out that the kill ratio is 30:1 or that the Taliban are close to collapse.

Quick send Jackoff Layton to negotiate a peace.

Cal2:

That's "Taliban Jack"

Cal2, They would call a kill ratio of 30:1 "disproportionate force" and demand an immediate withdrawal.

CBC up there, CBS down here... no difference whatsoever!

This is outrageous. I hope she hires a good lawyer and sues their butts off!

Show your support for our Troops by purchasing "Support Our Troops" items directly from the Canadian Forces Personnel Support Agency.

http://www.cfpsa.com/en/

I did and I wear with pride my t-shirt and baseball cap on a regular basis. Now, I'm off to buy a Support Our Troops coffee mug to take to work.

Now, if anyone knows where I can purchase a t-shirt telling the Fifth-column CBC to "Go Pound Salt", I'd appreciate it.

I did not see the original text of the letter in here, so here it is, transcribed from the Montreal newspaper La Presse by dday34 from the army.ca forum:

La Presse
Forum, jeudi 7 septembre 2006, p. A18
Opinion

Vos larmes ne sont pas vaines...

St-Pierre, Christine

Cette semaine en voyant vos visages en larmes à la télé alors que vous transportiez les cercueils de vos confrères vers l'avion qui les ramenait au pays, j'ai eu une pensée pour vous. Celle de vous dire merci.

Des voix s'élèvent pour réclamer votre retour au pays. Moi je dis de grâce non. Cette mission entérinée, faut-il le rappeler, par les Nations unies est essentielle et doit aller jusqu'au bout. Nous vous devons tout notre respect et un appui indéfectible.

Au péril de votre vie, vous êtes là pour empêcher que le régime de terreur des talibans ne reprenne le contrôle. Nous ne devons pas oublier les exécutions publiques, la faim, les viols, les petites filles bannies de l'école, les femmes condamnées à porter l'horrible burqa.

Le Canada n'est pas en Afghanistan parce qu'il est le " pitou " de Washington comme disent certains. Le Canada est en Afghanistan parce qu'il participe avec une trentaine d'autres pays à un effort gigantesque et périlleux au nom de la démocratie.

Au moment du déclenchement de la guerre en octobre 2001, j'étais en poste à Washington. Jamais je n'oublierai ces Afghans exilés de force que j'ai alors rencontrés et qui nourrissaient ce profond désir d'un jour pouvoir enfin rentrer à la maison.

Chers soldats, vos larmes ne sont pas vaines, vos larmes sont bravoure.

L'auteur est journaliste à Radio-Canada.

http://forums.army.ca/forums/index.php/topic,49940.0.html

The same dday34 offers this translation, in the same forum:

Well folks, here's my attempt at translating Christine's letter. Please keep in mind, even though French is my first language... it never was a strong subject for me in school!

Your tears are not in vain...

St-Pierre, Christine

This week while seeing your tears flowing down your faces on tv, you were carrying your comrade's coffins towards
the plane that would bring them back in country, I had a thought for you. To tell you thank you.

Voices are being raised demanding your return to Canada. I say, good grace no. This mission sanctioned, let's not forget, by the UN is essential and must be completed. We all owe you our respect and unfailing support

At the risk of your own lives, you are there to prevent the terror regime of the taliban from regaining control. We must not forget the public executions, the famine, the rapes, small girls banned from schools, women condemned to wearing the horrible burkha.

Canada is not in Afghanistan because it is Washington's pet like some people would have us believe. Canada is in Afghanistan because it is participating, with some 30 other countries, in a gigantic and perilous effort in the name of democracy

At the time the war started in October 2001, I was working in Washington. Never will I forget these Afghans exiled by force that I met. They were cherishing that profound desire of one day finally being able to go back home.

Dear Soldiers, your tears are not in vain, your tears are courage.

The author is a journalist with Radio-Canada.

Christine St-Pierre, CBC reporter, fired. For expressing an opinion supporting Canadian troops in their fight to help Afgans.

But, BUT when Tony Burman, CBC news, writes how HE supports the get-in-the-way-do-gooders, James Loney and Harmeet Singh Sooden, it's ok. OK ??

Wrongful Dismisal Case ??

You Tories act like fools and get caught then you blame the CBC. There is supposed to be a balance in reporting the news. I can't help it if you guys come off looking like a bunch of kooks. Who's fault is that? It takes more than a makeover to make a fool look smart and you guys are sure fools.

ok$ua, Chretien was a certifiable five star fool. Was this ever accurately portrayed on the CBC?

Have any of you tried writing/emailing CBC asking questions about their news coverage? I've sent them about 10 emails in the last year (all very reasonable questions posed in a courteous manner), but so far only one email has ever been acknowledged (that one was to "The Current").

RE: Supporting our troops in Afghanistan.

I think Canada and Europe do have a real vital interest in liberating Afghanistan and fighting the Taliban and that is shutting down the illegal heroin trade at its source.

And IMO the often repeated bit about the Taliban stepping on the drug trade is wrong. I think the Taliban profits from it now and that they always have.

Canada does not like to think of our military as "drug warriors" like the Yanks do, but when this latest crop of heroin hits the streets it will be part of an ongoing holocaust for many, many different places.

I heard some people on the CBC say that American consumption is the cause and I agree US junkies are certainly a big part of the problem but when this latest crop hits it will first hit the citizens of Moscow and Hamburg and then London and Amsterdam and Montreal and Vancouver etc. etc. and they will all pay a very, very heavy price.

Maybe some in NATO and the West see a bigger picture of what exactly is exported to their countries from that area alongside of jihad and terrorism and see all the drug deaths etc. stalking the streets of their cities and preying on their people.

Walter: Try writing to the CBC Ombudsman (Ombudsman@cbc.ca); more often than not he responds, though not always.

As you say, if you write to any other CBC program you have no idea whether or not your communication has reached them because you never receive anything from them: no acknowledgment of receipt, no answer to your polite and articulate question--courtesies you'd think an organization operating largely on Canadians' tax dollars would attend to.

But not the CBC.

For some unfathomable reason they think they're above having to answer to their viewers. If they had to operate on their own dime and according to their ratings, they'd have been kaput years ago.

My blood pressure always used to ramp up a few notches whenever I saw guys like Jean Chretien wearing their poppies, while solemnly laying wreaths at the tomb of the unknown soldier. Undermining the military the other 364 days of the year, every year, slong with the gaggle of Grima Wormtongues at the CBC, while in the same breath, repeating endlessly: but we support our troops!

soory, that should read: "along with the gaggle..."
PIMF :)

It's not just CBC. A couple of weeks ago CTV's Matt McClure was reporting from Kandahar and he ended his report by saying, "These troops (Canadians) don't want to be here (Afghanistan) anyway."

How's that for expressing an opinion?

Oh canaduuhhh leave it to the candians to do this they have become to darn wussie for their own good

Whenever you see something you don't like on the cbc, program content, news reports or whatever, take a moment and dial 1-800-565-1422 for their talkback line. You can vent all you want, your opinion is not ever posted but you can tie up their lines so no lefties can call in to support them. I had loads of fun during the election and Newmans show. My target now is taliban jack, every time his name is mentioned or face shown I call. Every call ends with BAN TALIBAN JACK FROM WEARING A POPPY OR ATTENDING ANY SERVICES ON NOV 11. If Quebec can turn their backs on our Queen, we can turn our backs whenever he appears.

I like how all you Tories are blind to the fact that most Canadians are not war mongers. One journalist speaks up and you're all for her. What if she spoke out against the war would you still support her???

Over 4,000 American troops have been killed in Iraq. They don't count any more. How many more Canadians will have to die so we don't count them??? This war is a lost cause for Canada. Russia tried now we're trying. They don't like us we're not muslim.

Just got this back:
From Subject Received Size
CBC Ombudsman Re: Christine St-Pierre dismissal Dear Pat Patrick:

I write to acknowledge your e-mail which I am sharing with the Ombudsman for Radio-Canada so that he may be aware of your comments. Ms.
St-Pierre works for the French Service of CBC.

Yours truly,

Vince Carlin
Ombudsman, CBC

>>> Pat 09/12/06 5:20 PM >>>
Once again the left wing bias in Canadian broadcasting is my issue.
Christine St-Pierre was suspended for having an opinion of supporting Canadian Troops and yet the opinions abound that support the left wing agenda without recourse. My tax dollars are not to be used to support a given political viewpoint but to represent the news, not make it.
Regards,
Pat Patrick
Powell River, BC.