In these past couple of weeks many of us have watched our parliamentary press gallery get sucked into a vortex of wild speculation and potentially libelous allegations. You may recall the curious case of Dan Rather, a once respected American Anchorman who became so consumed with his opposition to the President that he reported a false and ultimately embarrassing story that forced him to resign. If that were to happen in Canada, who do you think the most likely candidate would be?
Who is the most likely to take Guergis-gate or detainee-gate one misstep too far and either be forced to resign or charged for libel? Just about everyone on the CBC is following both cases 24/7. Many people are complaining about this Fife guy that I have never watched. Terry Milewski has emerged as the most pointed partisan in the Parliamentary press gallery (he has a tax funded salary). Kady O'Malley and Rosemary Barton (tax funded salaries) will get on Newsworld and joke about how they won't say anything nice about the government. Who is the most likely to push the envelope into personal liability?
This will eventually be a poll question, but I would like to collect a little bit of feedback in the nomination process before I do.
My vote without question would be Fife. As a matter of fact, anyone on CTV that has a political pundit beat would be added to the list.
ReplyDeleteI gave up on CBC after the 2006 election so obviously they are the tax payer sucking louses which may make them worse. I can't assess that.
I despise the gossipy antics of Giggles, the angry innuendos from Travers and the unfair garbage from Martin but Fife wins my vote.
Bobby Fife and Terry Milewski probably feed from the same news trough....put out a falsehood and they will all report it thus no one has to do any real reporting. If the reported news story is proven to be false...who would take the heat for false reporting and who would do the reporting of that news story
ReplyDeleteVan Dussen has to be on the list
ReplyDeleteIt might be a faster process to ask which Canadian Journalists would be considered not unscrupulous.
ReplyDeleteThe list would be much shorter.
Is Heather Mallick a journalist? If so she ranks as the most vitriolic.
ReplyDeleteFife and the whole PEE PEE crowd must be near the top as well as all the a-holes at the TorStar.
Kady O'Malice shouln't be allowed to write on shithouse walls let alone a column.
Jane Taber gets my vote though, as she seems to be getting more giggles out of this than any other story she has covered for a while!
Gee this is so hard, there's so many. I guess for me it's a toss up between Fife and Milewski as well. Kady is a wanna be journalist and a flake.
ReplyDeleteGiggles Taber is a just gossip columnist and Oliver should be put out to pasture. Traversty is traversty. Don't even give him the time of day.
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ReplyDeleteBasking in the blue skies and humid weather of a Canada Day in Ottawa, Alberta-bred country singer Paul Brandt was simply looking to entertain thousands of proud Canadians on Parliament Hill.
And with people clustering around the stage a few weeks ago for the summer party, Brandt was feeling the heat as a large audience looked on.
But it wasn't from the glaring sun or the spotlight on stage.
It was in front of the camera during an interview on CTV's 24-hour news channel.
While entertainers from other parts of Canada were lobbed relatively softball questions, Brandt's friendly interview took a sudden twist.
The "genuine Canadian man" -- as his hit single goes -- was forced to defend his home province after the news anchor queried Brandt about Alberta's environmental record.
"You're from Alberta, right?" she asked.
"There's a lot going on in Alberta these days. How do you feel about all that, particularly on the environment side of things?"
Brandt's smile vanished.
The award-winning singer, who had settled in after fielding initial questions on his music, sounded more like a politician.
"It's such a heady topic and it's such a difficult thing to know what to think about it," Brandt responded, clad in a black cowboy hat and shirt.
"There are a lot of issues at the forefront right now, with oil and the environment, the successes that are happening in Alberta, and how our leaders are working hard to try and be responsible with taking care of what we've been given."
different matter: Lisa LaFlamme and her sneer-
I am not going to count O'Malley and Mallick as real journalists. It looks like my list will be Milewski, Fife, Van Dussen, Taber, and Traverse.
ReplyDeleteI think Fife has this one all sewn up.
ReplyDeleteBert, don't count out Milewski. I think if more people watched the CBC, he'd win for sure.
ReplyDeleteFife for CTV and Milewski for CBC. Both come across as Canadians worst enemy.
ReplyDeleteHey Ice yer survey has a glaring omission. You left off "ALL OF THE ABOVE".
ReplyDeleteThrow in Attaran for good measure and the marching brigade to Hell is complete. Not a decent bone or brain in anyone of them, and I'm being in a particularly generous mood today.
ReplyDeleteTalk about the gravy train! Canadians need to dump this lot.
Haha, so far it's 50/50! What to do, what to do? We are all being forced to save on energy costs by turning off BOTH loser networks.
ReplyDeleteWin/win however. It would make conservatives most likely to be energy conservationists and have MUCH MORE coin in our jeans!
Neither one are worth supporting and that goes for their advertisers tenfold when I discourage the support to 10 people. Easy and satisfying!
I don't watch CBC so Fife of CTV gets my dander up more than most. As for print I would vote against anyone at the Toronto Star.
ReplyDeleteI would vote all of the above also.These reporters are so low in the esteem of Canadians that it is a wonder that they have not been fired a long time ago,or had their pants sued off them.So i would assume that the owners of these newspapers are the bastards to go after also .If these ass-holes were reporting during the world wars they would all be arrested and jailed for the duration.Just having to talk about these puke heads makes my blood pressure go up.
ReplyDeleteWhy don't you set up a journalist's 'Wall of Shame'?
ReplyDeleteNeil Macdonald, and Peter Mansbridge gets an assist.
ReplyDeleteMacdonald reported the ridiculous rumour that Trig Palin was actually Bristol Palin's child, not Sarah's.
Trig was 4 1/2 months old at the time and Bristol was 5 months pregnant, do the math on that one.
The rest of the media and blogs had announced that rather important fact two days before Mansbridge intro'd the story by saying that maybe the McCain campaign hadn't done enough research before choosing Palin as a running mate.
Speaking of research, how long would Neil and Peter have to pore over a grade 6 biology text or a grade 2 arithmetic book to solve that little puzzle?
Either those two losers are the biggest liars on TV or they are the most incompetent 'journalists' on the planet.
Or both.
Stan