Friday, April 23, 2010

Your Complaints To The CBC

With recent revelations that exclusive CBC pollster Frank Graves is a liberal donor who encouraged the Liberal Party to wage a "culture war" pitting Canadians against Canadians for potential Liberal electoral gain; I'm sure many of you out there are upset and would like to make a complaint to the CBC. A number of you are also likely offended that Scott Reid, who once encouraged the assassination of a sitting Prime Minister, has a weekly gig on our public broadcaster. As luck would have it, you have a number of different options to share your feelings:

Soloman Show (politics@cbc.ca): Mr. Graves frequently appears as a commentator on the Soloman Show to spin his polls. He has made several dozen appearances, where he will often attempt to guess what the electorate is thinking or feeling. Yesterday's dust up with Kory Teneycke has also raised new concerns about the validity of Graves analysis. This is also a great place to complain about Scott Reid's weekly gig on the program.  "Kill him, kill him dead" when speaking of the Prime Minister always looks great on a resume.

Managing Editor of the CBC Parliamentary Bureau (Paul.Hambleton@cbc.ca): The good folks at the Soloman Show aren't really keen on responding to complaints, so you might have to go directly to their boss to get your complaint read and dealt with. Again, a great place to send your complaints about the hiring of Scott Reid.

Ombudsman (ombudsman@cbc.ca): This is whose job it is to take general complaints about the CBC from the public.  Also a great place to complain about their deal with Scott Reid.

As it says on the CBC corporate website:

"The Ombudsman generally intervenes only when a correspondent deems a response from a representative of the Corporation unsatisfactory and so informs the Office of the Ombudsman who determines whether the journalistic process or the broadcast involved in the complaint did, in fact, violate the Corporation's journalistic policies and standards."

President and CEO (commho@ottawa.cbc.ca): If all else fails, this is the boss of everybody at the CBC.

Frank Graves polls have been used extensively by the CBC and their reporters (I know, Kady is a blogger, not a journalist), and that Team Ignatieff has been using Graves advice in trying to ignite division in Canada over abortion and the long gun registry. This may not have been paid advice, but nobody can doubt that the Liberals have been using the exact strategy that Graves recommended.

Kady O'Malley put up her defense of Frank Graves. It was one sentence long. Considering how much time she's spent in the last 4 months micro analyzing his polls, she can't be too pleased that the integrity of his polling has fallen into dispute. How can Graves honestly boast about the accuracy of his polls when he has the Green Party at 12.6%? If Vegas casinos took bets on Canadian election results, if you walked in to one and bet the Greens to get 12.6% of the popular vote in the next election, you'd get at least 100 to 1 odds, if not 200 to 1.

I have been on Graves case for a few months now. For some background into EKOS polling, see also:

Ignatieff Poll Dancing: Almost a year ago, Graves had Iggy up at 37% in majority territory. In one year, the Liberals have fallen 10%. Where's that headline Kady?

Jan 8, 2010: Polling by Number

Jan 28, 2010: It's EKOS Being Green

Feb 11, 2010: When Pollsters Attack

Feb 12, 2010: EKOS Gone Awry

5 comments:

  1. Frank Graves did clarify one thing:

    "...Saying those things, which are true, does not mean that Conservatives are either homophobic or xenophobic, but it does mean that the party, for whatever reason, does seem to provide a haven for many people who feel that way – systematically more likely than in other parts of the political spectrum."

    Quality analysis from a CBC pollster. To channel Al Sharpton, you sir should be fired!

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  2. Ya this mess just keeps getting more and more bizarre, we must write en masse.
    If the CBC keep him, he should start every segment from here on in with, "Hi I'm Frank Graves, Liberal financial supporter @ 99% vs a measly 1% for those neanderthal conservatives and now here are my poll results despite the fact that Conservatives won't talk to my pollsters anymore.......

    o/t your 'book names' are outstanding...fav and brilliant contribution "The Backfire..."

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  3. If Ekos seek your opinion, lie to them about everything. Destroy whatever tiny fragment of credibility they have left.

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  4. How does this look to the ordinary Canadian. We all know the CBC is liberal bias - all we have to do is listen to Peter M and the questions he asks to the panel........ but to have their main pollster be a heavy contributor to the liberal party... knowing full well, he works together with Iggy's Chief of Staff, a previous pollster... do they not get together and decide just what questions are to be asked to Canadians and know exactly what telephone numbers to call to keep their lame-duck leader even in the political ring?.... What do their numbers mean anyway... how do we know they didn't swing them for their political advantage? Means we Canadians are paying the salary of this liberal hack - we have to demand his resignation....or his polls numbers are meaningless and if the CBC does not fire him - it simply means they are demanding to keep all their liberal hacks to help the liberal party. so we have to get rid of the CBC....Let's start a tea party movement here in Canada... and demand a fox news....then we will see what Frank thinks of Sarah.....

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  5. CBC, pollsters of choice for the Liberal Party of Canada. Rename the party, Liberals East of the Hinterland. I guess when you can't raise money with the grassroots, you go to your local lefty media outlet (Toronto) and use their billion dollar budget as your own. Cheers.

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