NP - The Voice of Experience

[David Morris]

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/The_Voice_Of_Experience


*A lot has been made* of the contrast between how the Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation handled the events yesterday in Ottawa, and how our own cable
news networks handle practically everything. In brief, the difference was
roughly the difference between the morning edition of *The Times Of London *and
a tornado siren. However, one of the more startling things about CBC's
coverage has gone largely unnoticed.

When there stopped being news, the CBC News stopped covering the story and
cut away to its regular daily programming. It happened so quickly that it
caught me by surprise. One minute, there was anchordude Peter Mansbridge, who's
now the guy
<http://www.cbc.ca/thenational/about/correspondents/petermansbridge/>I want
at the desk when the Last Trumpet blows, telling us what we knew and (most
important) what we didn't know. And the next, we were back to its being a
Wednesday afternoon and "Today, in Alberta..."

Imagine that. There was no Political Powerhouse panel to explain how this
might have an impact on the Harper government. There was no aging M.P.
representing Yellowknife hollering that this never would have happened if
they'd only have built the dang pipeline, and no young opposition M.P.
speculating about how this never would have happened if they'd secured the
border with Quebec the way he and his ghostwriter had suggested in his
recent book. There were no former generals on the dodge, speculating sadly
that the shootings may indicate "a new stage" in the war on terror. There
was a deplorable lack of political opportunism, and a dreadful dearth of
doomsaying. There was no fancy logo. No heroic music adapted from a movie
trailer especially for the occasion.
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