Monday, July 26, 2010

CBC.ca Not Interested In Clement Rescue Story

I suppose that jumping into a raging river to save a drowning woman just isn't that interesting, at least in the eyes of CBC.ca. Tony Clement's act of heroism occurred on Saturday night, and it did not make it onto the CBC Canadian News page until the late afternoon on Sunday and it had mysteriously disappeared by Monday morning. Being a hero isn't news. What is news is a scathing op-ed by Don Newman which calls Tony "seemingly" capable, blind partisan, and ultra ambitious. The Newman piece was posted before the Clement story on Sunday morning, and the piece is still there. I visited the website several times Sunday to see if and when the CBC would report the story, but their Canadian News page was just too packed with really important stories, such as: P.E.I. bids for potato peeling record or Regina bookstore casualty of online trend.

Tony Clement really is an inconvenient hero for the CBC who is attempting to vilify him on Censusgate. Kady O'Malley has written two posts today and has not made a single mention of the heroic incident. What Kady is really excited about is Tuesday's impromptu committee meeting where MPs will get to question Tony about the Census (or what she calls "the countdown to censusfest 2010"). Kady even complains in one about Monday being a "slowish day". Really Kady? You couldn't have discussed anything that occurred on the weekend? The hero story was really only news for a few hours, but Don Newman op-eds last forever...

For the record, both the Globe and Mail and National Post still have the Clement story posted on their politics pages.

8 comments:

  1. To be fair to Kady O'Malley, she tends to stick to happenings on the Hill and procedural geekdom... I don't see her venture very often into political human interest stories very often.

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  2. CBC interested in a story that makes a Conservative look good? It will never happen Iceman.
    Now if the rescuer had of been Justin, wearing a Che' T shirt and cutoffs using the patented Shawinigan strangle Grip tm. With the Elder Statesman his Iffyness holding a thinkers conference on the bank trying to determine the direction of flow, speed of current, depth of water, temperature of same. Naturally they would have had a satellite hookup with stats-can to provide relevant and timely information.
    Now THAT would be a story for the ages, Nobel Prize, Order of Canada. Legion of Merit.etc. Video at 6:00 Lloyd would be sayin' thats the Liberal kinda day it was.
    Cheers Bubba

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  3. Not to defend the CBC, because I loathe them, but as far as I saw the story was on their website all day. And is still up.

    That doesn't excuse them arriving late to the table for dinner. Nor does it excuse the more than 600 comments mostly from stark raving leftards who think it is a conspiracy theory or that Clement was a chicken for turning back to shore when he felt he was in danger from the river.

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  4. "To be fair to Kady O'Malley"...those words are seldom uttered in these parts...

    If Iggy had jumped into a river fully clothed to save a life, somehow I suspect Kady would at least dedicate a sentence to it. She has plenty to write about censusgate and Tony Clement is the minister of that portfolio. She is frothing at the mouth for his question and answer period in committee on Tuesday, and ignoring his heroic deeds on Saturday...to be fair to Kady O'Malley...

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  5. I'm sure the story exists somewhere on their server Reid, but I wrote: "it did not make it onto the CBC Canadian News page until the late afternoon on Sunday and it had mysteriously disappeared by Monday"

    http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ **it isn't there

    http://www.cbc.ca/news/ **it isn't there

    http://www.cbc.ca/politics/ **it isn't there

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  6. That is because he did not walk on water, he got wet.

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  7. CBC is not covering a big StatsCan story either.
    The advisory body to StatsCan chief statistician proposal,
    yup, the REAL experts said
    decriminalize the census (keep the fine),
    drop the unnecessary (don't relate to govt business) questions,
    and further drop questions that infringe on citizen privacy.
    National Post covered it this am,
    a few eventually followed, not CBC nor G&M last time I checked.

    the proposal
    http://macleans.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/nsc-statement-en.doc

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  8. The Star was worse. They did a story (that debuted on the bottom of the page) about how 4 people almost drowned. If you managed to read the whole article you will find Clement mentioned about 3/4 of the way through. If any Liberal had been involved in any way it would have made the 'breaking news' spot at the top for at least a full day.

    http://www.thestar.com/article/840084--close-calls-as-4-people-pulled-from-raging-streams

    Those comments on CBC were pathetic.

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