He was a non-partisan eviscerator of political hypocrisy and pomposity.
14 Replies to “RIP Allan Fotheringham”
He would never be allowed in today’s media, where loyalty to the Liberal Party is a requirement.
Had a subscription to Maclean’s and used to turn to Dr Foth’s back page first, always a good read.
RIP Allan Fotheringham.
Yeah, Fotheringham was from the time when journalists were actual journalists.
He could cut the politicos and the aristocrats down to size with ease.
They feared him, though they did not want to be ignored by him.
Very much like the so called conservatives should behave, without fear.
All in all, a way journalist should hit.
My dad often used to read his funnier columns aloud to us from the Vancouver Sun. He was an institution in our family.
I remember reading him in the Edmonton Sun starting when I was in my early teenage years.
And it should be noted: RIP Dale Hawerchuk. Gone too soon.
RIP Dr Foth.
“Let me elucidate for you the profundity and totality of your ignorance” (from memory…)
*Some days it was all I read in Macleans.
Loved his columns! What a mind! RIP, Fotheringham.
One of his better quotes re Ottawa “A town that fun forgot”
And the world grows a little darker…
Fotheringham was from a time when it was popular not to be popular.
Today, most of them brownnose the Liberals. Turn the TV on and all three major networks (along with the eastern Cdn. leftist papers ) are all running the same story and almost word for word. Sad!!
RIP Dr. Fotheringham
I guess I will have to go with the unpopular people and state that Allan Fotheringham was not my cup of tea.
His forte was taking a physical characteristic of someone in the news and running with that over and over
Mulroney was”the jaw that walks like a man’. Joe Clark was ‘the man without a chin’. etc.
Cute but was it fair comment?
fair does not enter the equation.
How is it that only us old guys know that?
‘fair’ was the wrong word but we are still taught from an early age to try not judge a person by the way he looks but by the things he says and does.
He would never be allowed in today’s media, where loyalty to the Liberal Party is a requirement.
Had a subscription to Maclean’s and used to turn to Dr Foth’s back page first, always a good read.
RIP Allan Fotheringham.
Yeah, Fotheringham was from the time when journalists were actual journalists.
He could cut the politicos and the aristocrats down to size with ease.
They feared him, though they did not want to be ignored by him.
Very much like the so called conservatives should behave, without fear.
All in all, a way journalist should hit.
My dad often used to read his funnier columns aloud to us from the Vancouver Sun. He was an institution in our family.
I remember reading him in the Edmonton Sun starting when I was in my early teenage years.
And it should be noted: RIP Dale Hawerchuk. Gone too soon.
RIP Dr Foth.
“Let me elucidate for you the profundity and totality of your ignorance” (from memory…)
*Some days it was all I read in Macleans.
Loved his columns! What a mind! RIP, Fotheringham.
One of his better quotes re Ottawa “A town that fun forgot”
And the world grows a little darker…
Fotheringham was from a time when it was popular not to be popular.
Today, most of them brownnose the Liberals. Turn the TV on and all three major networks (along with the eastern Cdn. leftist papers ) are all running the same story and almost word for word. Sad!!
RIP Dr. Fotheringham
I guess I will have to go with the unpopular people and state that Allan Fotheringham was not my cup of tea.
His forte was taking a physical characteristic of someone in the news and running with that over and over
Mulroney was”the jaw that walks like a man’. Joe Clark was ‘the man without a chin’. etc.
Cute but was it fair comment?
fair does not enter the equation.
How is it that only us old guys know that?
‘fair’ was the wrong word but we are still taught from an early age to try not judge a person by the way he looks but by the things he says and does.