Rick Mercer to head CBC News ?

[DualCore]

With Tony Burman retiring as big-cheese of CBC News ... http://www.thestar.com/News/article/227019

and after the recent report that the failures of Canadian journalism to create a well-informed electorate (reported at this link) ... http://toyoufromfailinghands.blogspot.com/2007/06/information-gap.html

were in many cases failures of editors and executives in Canada to understand the military and permit the reporters to report what was happening, (a few quotes from above blog-post and report) ...

And they are asking people in Canada [news editors], most of who have either never been to Afghanistan or have not been there recently, or have no meaningful understanding of what's really going on there right now, and they say, 'no, that's not a story. Don't cover that'."

He says the reporters told him that their editors wanted them to stay at KAF "in case another person gets killed so I can cover the ramp ceremony."

And thus, I am proposing Rick Mercer as new director of CBC News.  While not a journalist in the classical sense, he does know that "army" is not an adjective for a man with many arms, "navy" is not a color, and "air force" is not a feature of a central heating system.

Plus Don Cherry is too old.

 

[CdnArtyWife]

Show me the petition to sign. I'm down with that!

Cheers,

CAW

 

[Mike Baker]

To be honest, I would rather he stay with his own show. But, that is my view.

 

[Bzzliteyr]

Hmm, tough one.  I love the support he has given to us, but I'd fear some censorship if he were to be put in the position of "big fromage".  He'd have no choice but to listen to "the man".

 

[Greymatters]

Now THAT's anarchy!

But I like it...  ;D

 

[DualCore]

Good news -- Sheila Copps has interviened and declared her support for "Less News, More Drama" at CBC.

Looks bad for the dopey old white men with the big salaries, and promotions for young cheap jounralists, perhaps even more VJs. 
It is risky, but I'll give them the benefit of the doubt, that the news-wiil-improve.

Looks good for Rick.

http://torontosun.com/News/Columnists/Copps_Sheila/2007/06/24/4286277-sun.html