Congratulations to the CBC's Evan Soloman for being nominated for Best Host or Interviewer in a News Information Program at the 2010 Gemini awards. If you are anything like me, your first reaction to this news might be "if E-Solo was nominated, I wonder who his competition is?" The answer is all fellow CBC employees. Other Canadian networks do the news, but the CBC is the only one that matters to the Gemini awards. If you read through all 28 pages of nominations, you will see many categories dominated by the CBC, which ironically is one of the worst rated Canadian networks (certainly when weighted against the number of Canadian televisions that have access to it). Needless to say there are many frivolous awards available, with a whole lot of nominees that I had never heard of before.
If this is seriously the list of our best hosts of news information programs in Canada, then what does that say about the quality of news information in Canada? With a list of nominees this weak, it does say something that Jane Taber couldn't even get nominated for Question Period. I do like Amanda Lang, though I confess that it is not because of her excellence in journalism...
Best Host or Interviewer in a News Information Program
Heather Hiscox - CBC News Now
Erica Johnson - CBC News: Marketplace
Amanda Lang - The Lang & O'Leary Exchange
Bob McKeown - CBC News: The Fifth Estate
Evan Solomon - Power and Politics
"Evan Solomon" is a "jewel" compared to Jane Tabor. She is so liberal - her eye balls are even red....Even her counterparts think she is bias, she was not even considered....then to have the audacity to say Sun Media is going to be Conservative bias, is the biggest laugh in Canadian journalism....she sure should know about bias.... I guess it only proves, they are all "sick" their liberal slander just might be challenged...
ReplyDeleteHeyyy. WB Iceman. I can't say I miss not watching the CBC but i missed your analysis. Cheers.
ReplyDeleteBest host or interviewer in a news program that nobody watch,s, but is forced to pay for whether they like it or not... and the winner is... who gives a sh#t.
ReplyDeleteDo you have a list of the Gemini judges Iceman?
ReplyDeleteIs Maggie Atwood involved...lol
Look on the bright side - at least Tom Clark didn't get nominated either.
ReplyDeleteSolomon is extremely biased. I can't imagine him worthy of any recognition.
ReplyDeleteThe Gemini Awards are simply a CBC run trophy for those CBC "journalists" who haven't yet been made Governor General....sort of a consolation prize.
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