Ezra Levant: President of the CBC
With Cruickshank, it was his comment that to publish the cartoons was simply being “macho”. Pressed to explain, he said that critics called cartoon self-censorhip a “lack of courage… you’re just afraid that your correspondents in the Islamic world are going to face the consequences of this. Well, yeah.”Well yeah? I appreciate the honesty: the CBC’s news boss acknowledged, for the first time, that they are afraid that if they cover Muslim news in the wrong way, there could be violence against their reporters in Muslim nations. So they don’t. ezra levant
Cruickshank needs to realize that you can report the news or you can censor it. Not showing the cartoons was censorship pure and simple. Ezra hands him his head.
If Harper had any balls at all he’d fire whichever non-entity is currently the President of the CBC and replace him with Ezra. Sphincters would tighten, the bien pensant would threaten to emigrate to, well, England or Sweden or the land of the NPR. Hilarity would ensue. And the CBC would become, in short order, a serious news and public affairs organization…Again.
April 15th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
It is now admitted: CBC provides politically sanitized news and information for people who do not wish to know the whole story and to whome the inconveniet truth is too shocking to their realm of realities.
Go elsewhere for undoctored news content…but we’ve known this for years. it’s why the blogoshere has increased exponentially.
The thing this CBC exec said that enthused me was that if you wished to see “the cartoons” (his metaphor for controversy of any kind) you could get them on the internet. I found the irony of that statement truly toxic.
Obviously the opinion of a careerist and not a journalist…or that of someone who is passionate about the freedom of the press.
April 15th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
“And the CBC would become, in short order, a serious news and public affairs organization…Again.”
...and Ezra would finally have a financially viable publication as he would no longer be reliant upon subscriber income and could just ding the taxpayers instead.
Or is it mean to point this out?
April 16th, 2008 at 12:37 am
No, no, no…
Mark Steyn as the President of the CBC.
Ezra Levant as the Best Friend.
(google it…)
April 16th, 2008 at 12:42 am
Jay, I hadn’t thought of Ezra. But over at my blog, I just suggested Gen. Rick Hillier to replace Cruickshank.
Maybe we can get a shortlist going.
Deborah
April 16th, 2008 at 2:17 am
all wide of the mark…what is needed is a bitter angry long suffering yet vengeful but ‘reasonable’ conservative Roman Catholic man (the religion i’ve chosen NOT to observe for four decades but after seeing the last 3 Pope’s sterling work am reconsidering this position) such as myself…bigod I’ll make short work of turning the CBC into the media equivalent of a Royal Navy frigate or black’s the white of my eye.
dismissed….shaidle is in charge in my absence…now carry on as you were before.
April 16th, 2008 at 2:32 am
I suggest we feint with Ezra and then, after the left has risen as one to protest with marches and invective ‘n stuff and has thoroughly exhausted themselves, we pull him at the last minute and slip in Don Cherry.
Deborah:
I’ve tried to comment and open links on your site quite a few times, but everything always freezes on me. Do others have this problem or was it something I said? :-)
April 16th, 2008 at 3:08 am
I find it very worrisome that the CBC will withhold information to ‘protect us’ from shocking things, or even to protect their reporters in the middle East, but they have no such reservations when it comes to showing us the faux-news and doctored photos or staged ‘events’ as we have seen in the Lebanon/Israeli war of a few years ago.
Why was the scenes of bomb damage in southern Lebanon not censored out? Why were bogus stories about bombed ambulances not deleted?
Spotless teddy bears strewn about a bombed out apartment building was shown at length, however. The CBC is a phony excuse for a news source on any given day. CTV is the same if not worse. For shame on them all.
April 16th, 2008 at 5:08 am
No wait:
Conrad Black!
Bwa ha
April 16th, 2008 at 5:56 am
I am deeply hurt that no one has yet considered me for the position.
April 16th, 2008 at 6:08 am
I think Ezra Levant and Don Cherry should revive the old Wayne and Schuster schtick.
They could spend the first season satirising the CHRC and Dick Warman with special guests: Mark Steyn, Rex Murphy and musical guest Tommy Hunter.
Rick Mercer could stop by as well.
April 16th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
“I am deeply hurt that no one has yet considered me for the position.”
I was going to, but considered it too obvious.