.sunlorrie: To delight of Conservatives, CBC’s president bad mouths Poilievre
in an article ostensibly about the CBC’s plans for eventually abandoning its radio and television services and going fully digital — someday — she handed Poilievre a cudgel with which to beat up the public broadcaster.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Edmonton SUN, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
But for the CBC president and CEO to say it explicitly, in public, is manna from heaven for the Conservatives. Asked later by a CBC reporter whether she was concerned her comments about Poilievre would undermine working journalists at the CBC by pitting the public broadcaster against one political party, Tait said she wasn’t because she’s not a journalist but the CEO.Article content
The problem is, she walked into what a newspaper publisher rightly described to me years ago as, “six minutes of satisfaction, followed by six miles of bad road,” in this case for CBC journalists, particularly on Parliament Hill.
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