Dr. Tom Flanagan;
This afternoon (March 6, 2007) I got a call from CBC TV news reporter Krista Erickson. She said she was desperately seeking someone to provide balance for a story she was doing on Christine Tell and the Saskatchewan Judicial Appointments Committee. Ms. Tell is the law enforcement representative on the JAC. The Liberals are calling for her to resign because she has also decided to run for the Saskatchewan Party in the next provincial election. […] Ms. Erickson said a crew would be there in 20 minutes to interview me. Then she called back and said that the story had been scrubbed, so they wouldn’t need an interview after all.
When I watched the National at 10 PM, I saw that they ran the story after all, and without balance. They had law professor Lorraine Weinrib to call for Ms. Tell’s resignation, but no one to give a view from the other side. I’ve watched the CBC for too many years to be surprised at the lack of balance, but I am genuinely surprised at the lack of professionalism. I’ve been cut out of stories before, and I can’t complain about it; no one has a right to appear on the CBC. But why didn’t Ms. Erickson just tell me, we don’t want your interview after all because it doesn’t fit into the one-sided story line we are planning to construct? Or, we can’t interview you because you don’t have the right expertise? Why did she have to make up a story abut canceling the story?
The CBC is soooo biased. Gotta go, FOXNEWS is on and I need to be informed of my latest outrage.
That woman (Christine Ericson) had Marlene Jennings – screech er of the Public Accounts committee hiding Liberano theft and lies and corruption , as her back-up. Any person watching this clip without a background, would think that Marlene is a credible person!!
CBC was banned in our house back in the 1950’s; Dad could not stand the “take’ or the ‘spin’ that broadcasters insisted on blabbing on and on about.
I only watch them to catch them in lies. If anyone relies on CBC for their news then they do not care about facts, they just like watch their money wasted money on empty ‘opinions’ – babble for old women by old women – is how my Dad phrased it when he was trying to be nice to his brothers wife who was a Dipper.