To This End (Bumped)

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The CBC will announce shortly the firing of most middle and top-level management personnel, replacement of their entire editorial staff, and retirement of all television anchors and international reporters currently delivering the news;

Our very mandate is to provide Canadians with a view of their political life unobstructed by bias. To do that, we must be detached from partisan interest, and professional and dispassionate in all aspects of our reporting. We must be seen to be all these things as well.

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Far from restoring the credibility of CBC News, the Corporation’s handling of the Erickson affair has managed to shred that credibility to tatters.
For starters, it confirmed the cozy relationship between the CBC and the Liberal Party, something everybody in the news business knew, but which the CBC always denied until now.
But, but. but…wasn’t Krista acting on her own without CBC approval?
Well, that’s what Cruickshank says—without an iota of evidence provided to Canadians to back up that contention. We’re supposed to take his word for it.
Well here’s a word — NO.
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Maybe Pablo isn’t Erickson’s boy after all and Cruickshank is laughing up his sleeve as reporters make an incorrect assumption. Or maybe Pablo is the Liberal that Krista Erickson was dating, according to one of our sources. Does pillow talk count as Principles, Section 3’s ” association or contact which could reasonably give rise to perceptions of partiality”?

98 Replies to “To This End (Bumped)”

  4. the Accountability Act now gives Parliament the authority to ask the Auditor General to perform a complete review of the CBC…
    Sheila Fraser needs to look at the CBC’s business dealings, analyze its management structure and above all else review the allegations of political bias in its programming and reporting…
    these latest shenanigans by CBC News, in trying to connect Stephen Harper to the Mulroney-Shreiber Affair, are nothing new…
    the current VP of English Media was in charge of Trudeau’s communications for Gawd sake – the CBC’s agenda is to defeat conservative opinion….
    the CBC no longer pays for its own productions – they are financed by the CTF and Telefilm – so what exactly are we getting for $1.1billion per year besides a gay afternoon talk show?
    I suspect that an audit of the CBC would reveal some arrangements and agendas that should not be occurring in a democratic nation….

  5. But our role at the CBC is different from the private media whose obligation is, ultimately, only to their shareholders.
    I’m a CBC shareholder. Why am I not allowed to sell my share? They take my money and are as biased as hell. Why do I have to pay for Krista’s re-training?

  6. So she says she BB’ed the questions to Pablo. That sort of makes him out to be a liar, as he says he staid up all night writing them. did anyone notice if he was reading the BB during the session?

  10. What a load of crap.
    Motherhood statements to hide the fact that nothing has or will change.
    The reporter wasn’t fired, she was re-assigned. No other accountability on this or any of the other complaints will be had by anyone.
    Strip the CBC and sell it for parts. It’s no good as a whole.

  11. When a socialist brother or sister goes wrong ….. they are sent to the appropriate facility for re-education.
    Krista got to go to the central committee offices … others may have gotten the Gulag treatment.

  12. I think one would find the CBCpravda at the receiving end of adscam payments as well.
    CBCpravda All Liberal , All the Time.

  13. “When a socialist brother or sister goes wrong ….. they are sent to the appropriate facility for re-education.”
    In her case the only ‘wrong’ she’s done is to be caught.

  14. Did anyone else notice this?
    “In this case, our reporter provided questions to two Liberal MPs using her BlackBerry in the hope that these would be put to the former prime minister during the committee hearings.”
    Two(2) Liberal MP’s? Pablo and …
    I may have missed that part of the story. Does anybody know the other?
    Steve

  15. I had the same observation as you did Mississauga Matt. I am a shareholder in that Bolshevik outfit and I am not a Commi – the CBC NEVER reflects my view! I say sell the assets and fire the staff – ALL of them. Mrs. Fraser should be given the task to investigate all reporters, fairy tale tellers etc. to ensure that they were not bribed by their Puffin masters and seize all funds that they may have been party to…CTV seems to serve the same ‘birds’ (Puffins) as the CBC – if there is collusion between those two ‘news’ outfits that should be corrected also and all Conservative Canadians refunded – the Puffin ilk have already had their representation aired over and over and over on the airwaves.

  16. I would like to see Peter Pansbridge, anchor of fantasyliberalcbcpravda.com interview Jason Kenney or someone else on this. I know PMSH has no time for the sillies.
    I must admit , I saw Pansbridge interview Borat Dion about the invasion of Pakistan , he was forceful and got Dion to get the sheep in the headlights look. but had Stockwell Day made such a statement (which he never did) CBCpravda would have been all over him like a fat boy on a twinkie.

  17. Dear Mr. John Cruickshank, Publisher CBC News,
    You expressed your views about how your CBC reporter had provided Liberal MPs with [ Heavily Biased],written questions to pose to the former prime minister.
    Without any analytic effort at all, your own words leave you open to dozens of justified complaints about ethical reporting.
    The reporter you demoted was operating under accepted standards that you personally set for all your CBC reporters.
    Your warped standards have been causing distress to *thinking Canadians* for some years now.
    Were you at the helm during the *Seniors should be terrified of Harper*s hidden agenda*?
    Were you at the helm when the BC noon CBC talk show re-played a tape of a lady in frightened quavering voice who asked the moderator if she would lose her pension if Harper got elected? … more than one play? Do you think we are less perceptive / more stupid in British Columbia?
    No need to bore readers with dozens of similar accounts. Suffice to say that you should resign in shame and a PROFESSIONAL CBC news director who understands the meaning of Neutral Bias in factual news reporting should be hired.
    You said . . . **we took the reporter off the story and turned to our Journalistic Standards and Practices guide to help us deal with this matter.**
    You self incriminated by that statement. No professional news director needs to consult an *How to Guide*.
    You know full well the basic rules you thrashed on so many News and Opinion reports and you willfully broke those rules on an almost daily basis.
    Liberals have gone easy on you in these comments, but the facts are that left leaning bias at the CBC is a huge disgrace in a fair democratic country.
    A graceful resignation on your part would be the classy thing to do. Not likely to redeem your reputation much, after such a long history of *Spun News*. = TG
    PS: I always try to be polite and diplomatic. No intent to offend, you understand.

  18. The admission by Cruickshank of CBC wrongdoing is commendable but far from comforting as Canadian taxpayers are concerned.
    The deeply embedded leftist socialist culture is obviously so deeply ingrained that one internet posting in its self is meaningless.
    Trust as an unbiased news disseminating voice has been lost.
    CBC needs privitization of ownership.

  19. ya gotta love the further training bit & i agree whats the part about 2 liberal MP’s i hope the committee members pickup on that one. I guess though Pablo(i write these questions No One Else, Duffy live) has some explaining to do.
    Do you think she knows the smoking lounge in the toronto office is closed, its now a cocktail lounge open during the hours of 6am to 11pm.

  20. After seeing a picture of the CBC reporter (Ms. Erickson) in the National Post, I can understand why Liberal MP Pablo Rodriguez followed her directions and asked the questions she gave him.
    I would do anything she asked of me. Anything! In fact I think she should replace the bald one, Mr. Mansbridge, as anchor of the National. It would give them at least one new viewer because I would certainly tune in nightly.

  21. I’m waiting (still) for CBC to do a multi year investigation of former Liberal Pm Jean Chretien for his role in the Shawinagate affair.
    Abuse of power, maybe getting a federal agency to fund people who happend to owe him money so he could get payed. Forcing the RCMP to ruin the life of an innocent man – a job that was savaged in court by a Quebec judge.
    CBC investigate Cruton ??>
    We are still waiting . . . .

  22. a Steve, I had the same question…who was the second MP?
    If it was Paul Szabo, the committee chair, then he must be removed as the chair of this committee immediately for allowing the committee’s business to be hijacked for purely partisan purposes.

  23. Just posted a comment on the CBC site but I don’t think it will see the light of day. I mentioned that Ms. Erikson was dealing with two Liberal MP’s and that if the CBC were truly unbiased they would have chased the Liberal Party for having these two MP’s involved in this unethical episode. Remember all the air time over the Stronach comment but a Liberal MP lying to the people that elected him doesn’t even get a 15sec sound bite on the National.

  24. cbc started out broadcasting from the attics of the big hotels, they over time, moved to the closets and soon emerged from the closets, time to stick them back in the attics. It is where the term bats in the bellfrey came from I’ll bet.

  25. The CBC blog accepted and posted this comment:
    “our reporter provided questions to two Liberal MPs”
    2 Liberal MPs? I haven’t seen that reported anywhere else. Who was the “other” Liberal MP besides Pablo Rodriguez? Was it Paul Szabo, the chair of the ethics committee? The one who got to decide if the questions were in order or not?
    If so, then the other half of this scandal is being buried by the CBC, whose “mandate is to provide Canadians with a view of their political life unobstructed by bias”. These Liberals were responsible for hijacking a parliamentary committee’s proceedings for purely partisan purposes. If Szabo was the other MP, then he must be removed as the Ethics Committee chair immediately.
    Will the CBC fess up the name of the second MP?

  27. Isn’t this how it was predicted by Orwell in ‘1984’? The department of truth spewed lies, that the entity coming to steal your freedoms would label itself as protecting your freedoms. Just as the Anti-Racism Conference is nothing BUT racism, the CBC is nothing but bias, partisanship, unprofessionalism and prejudice.

  29. Has the CBC really come fully clean on this matter?
    From the National Post January 9, 2008:
    “Mr. Rodriguez, a Montreal-area MP who seldom speaks English in the House, suddenly began questioning Mr. Mulroney with the precision and erudition of a trial lawyer.”Mr. Mulroney, you said you made no presentation to Maxime Bernier [the former industry minister in the Tory government and now Minister of Foreign Affairs] on the wireless spectrum issue,” Mr. Rodriguez declared in English. “While he was the industry minister, have you ever had a private or public dinner or lunch with him in Montreal, or any other city? Have you ever met with him at all? If so, how many times, in which city? Have you ever placed a telephone call to him, or has he called you? On any of those, did you discuss the wireless spectrum issue?” http://www.nationalpost.com/most_popular/story.html?id=226831
    The National Post story was headed “We want a name”. But is one name really enough? Perhaps Krista Erickson has the training and skills that would allow her to draft questions “with the precision and erudition of a trial lawyer”, but should we be left to assume she was operating all on her own out of an “excess of journalistic zeal”? From the Winnipeg Free Press, January 22, 2008:
    “Erickson, a graduate of Vincent Massey High School in Fort Garry and Red River College’s Creative Communications program, worked at the CBC in Winnipeg as a researcher and reporter prior to taking over the anchor position for Winnipeg’s suppertime newscast in 2004.
    She began covering Parliament Hill in 2006 and was soon the target of political blogs and the satirical periodical Frank, which documented escapades, including a very public spat with a cameraman from Canadian Press at the Supreme Court building. Her photo is even on the cover of the current issue of Frank, a magazine she has threatened repeatedly to sue.”http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/story/4111828p-4708296c.html
    Is this the level of education and experience that would allow one to draft questions like a trial lawyer? Should we really be eliminating the possibility that someone else at the CBC helped stage-managed this event? Is Krista taking one for the team?

  30. Reminds me of pedophile priests, who when caught are moved to another church…….for more training I guess.

  32. There is something unique about this Cruickshank squirming post and the mostly *nay* comments.
    In case they happen to vanish i have a wps file with comments up to 5:52 or so.
    Easy to Email if needed. = TG

  33. Following CBC links;
    [quote]Two days after the proposed sale was announced, the parent company, ContentFilm, was bought by Toronto-based Peace Arch. CBC executive Fred Fuchs was a senior vice-president at Peace Arch before coming to the CBC.[/quote]
    That sure looks like an inside JOB. CBC selling public assets to connected insiders, outside the bid process. I wonder how many CBC Exec’s hold shares in Pease Arch, or suddenly have an increase in wealth.

  34. [quote]Reminds me of pedophile priests, who when caught are moved to another church…….for more training I guess.[/quote]
    Yes Joanne, It’s slealth training.

  35. That’s a little bit premature- it isn’t April 1 yet! (And if pigs had wings, they would fly.)

  36. Even the New York Slimes, as hard as it for me to say it, would have fired this reporter immediately. They may not be motivated by ethics, but, they would be smart enough to understand that an ethical breech with that much public exposure isn’t defensible. That’s the difference between private for profit versus public funded MSM parasites.
    The CBC’s response is totally unacceptable.
    Ethical journalism requires a firewall making a reporter a neutral vessel. If you are covering a murder trial you don’t text message either the dependent or the plaintiff, common sense.
    The parasitic CBC and the BBC can’t die fast. enough

  37. “But our role at the CBC is different from the private media whose obligation is, ultimately, only to their shareholders.”
    How gratuitously insulting and condescending to suggest that the CBC somehow has higher ethical standards than free media that are not funded through forced taxation.

  38. The Black Rod needs to change his site name to Lightning Rod ’cause -damn- if he isn’t one of the best for this sort of stuff.
    As for CBC… meh. Can’t say I honestly expected anything else than excuses and cover-up. And I’m definitely not surprised at the collusion. (Who is?) I stopped watching or listening to CBC years ago out of principle. I’m just waiting for a government, regardless of stripe, that will privatize CBC.

  39. The idea of an unbiased media is the heart of the problem we face in Canada. It gives rise to an elite class of mutually-accrediting experts who get to decide who is extreme and who mainstream, i.e. what range of opinions need to be balanced. We certainly need disinterested elites in the academy, judiciary, etc., but this requires that we recognize that disinterested judgment properly belongs to a limited domain of our culture. Much of what we do in thinking, speaking, reporting, is inherently political and the media should admit as much, admit their bias, and compete in the marketplace as people who can act honorably and intelligently, despite their stated bias, not pretend it doesn’t exist. In other words, the only way to justify a state-funded media is to believe in the liberal paradigm of an elite class that is above politics. It ain’t so and can never be. The CBC cannot be reformed.
    We really have to get our heads inside the inherent liberalism of “fair and balanced” because as we can now see it is institutionalized in our human rights law, by the higher courts, which positively requires it or else you can end up like Maclean’s on the hot seat. We will become a country that must forever defer to centralized elites for arbitration of our differences, unless we renew our ideas about self-ruling democracy, about sharing a national covenant to guarantee individual not group rights.
    I want a Canada where ordinary people can usually negotiate their differences without one or the other being addicted to Nazi-Jew metaphors of victimization which by their very nature can only be mediated from on high.
    We have a judiciary that thinks it can perform great balancing acts for us, weighing all kinds of competing claims and rights. And maybe they can in their own universe of elaborate metaphysical gymnastics. What they forget is that the very means they must use to serve their putatively noble ends cannot guarantee a free society, for they are its very erosion: their means are deferral to an accredited elite for even the most minor of disputes: oh you offended me with those words!
    Our elites are so blinded by the myths of their own mission to serve the people, not aware that in this day and age the means are the ends. This is what we have to emphasize now, now that we are getting a little attention over this “human rights” scandal. Because our constant deferral to an “unbiased” liberal elite is now well institutionalized in law. And getting out of it will not be a simple matter but must require constant effort for some time, engaging politicians not just bloggers. But it all starts with questioning the idea that the media can or should be unbiased. Politics should be worn on the sleeve and no one has a right to public nudity.

  40. I wrote requesting that all CBC staff with political affiliations or activities should be fired. Also, that the CBC employee structure should reflect, proportionately, the representation of gays, lesbians,etc… and Christians, in Canadian society.
    Fat chance either will happen. Sell them to the “Friends of the CBC” for 1$ (One dollar) and watch them die. Rather, like me, don’t watch them die 🙂

  42. Did the prime minister hire Cruickshank and was it not too long ago?Please someone correct me if I’m wrong.

  43. h.ryan, I dunno, but perhaps that is why you are seeing even this tiniest of little cracks in the establishment’s armour.

  45. CBC clearly does not get it.
    He says:”I am convinced that the Canadian public is sophisticated enough to realize it is well served by the intense and proper competition for news scoops that exists at every parliamentary, legislative and municipal bureau across the country.”
    This seems to me to be code for “if you can’t appreciate our need to go after the most sensational and salacious material, then you are really stupid.”
    If we disagree with this supposedly exalted purpose of the media, does that mean we aren’t “sophisticated enough”? Liberal bias, anyone? Nah. Impossible.
    And then there’s this one:
    “But our role at the CBC is different from the private media whose obligation is, ultimately, only to their shareholders.”
    “Only to their shareholders”???? What do you think my tax dollar are? At least a shareholder can cash in his shares if he’s disgusted with what the company is giving him. WHY CAN’T I DO THAT!!!!!!!
    Nope. They just don’t get it. Perhaps they aren’t sophisticated enough.

  46. What a joke the CBC has become.
    Last year it was Ms. Lawland.
    Now, Krista Erickson.
    Who’s next in the smear-the-conservatives agenda from the CBC?
    Tories have been in power for less than 2 years and already 2 CBC reporters have been slapped down. What a disgrace. It’s clear the CBC is a hotbed of leftards of which I wouldn’t care about except my tax dollars are going to them.

  47. “Did the prime minister hire Cruickshank and was it not too long ago? Please someone correct me if I’m wrong.”
    The Prime Minister does not–to my knowledge–hire anyone at CBC. h.ryan., I don’t know this officially, but I do know that there was no firestorm regarding the hiring of John Cruickshank.
    Can you imagine the moaning and shrieking and worse, on and on and on . . . if the PM had had any influence re the hiring of an important CBC position?
    The Prime Minister’s Office has a lot of power–thanks, PET and Chretien, who finessed it–but I don’t believe hiring CBC head honchos is one of the prerogatives he enjoys!
    If I’m wrong, please, someone, let me know.

  48. I do not know where I got the notion of Cruickshank’s hiring but if it is the case then I would have expected a different response so you are probably right lookout.

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