CBC News Network managing editor Jennifer Harwood: “It’s time to stand up for Peter”
CBC News Network managing editor Jennifer Harwood: “It’s time to stand up for Peter”
—Jennifer Harwood, CBC News Network’s managing editor, in an internal memo that was leaked to the Globe. Harwood was explaining her decision to bar veteran Fifth Estate journalist Linden MacIntyre from appearing on the network, after MacIntyre offhandedly compared Peter Mansbridge to Jian Ghomeshi during an earlier Globe interview. (Both men, MacIntyre told the Globe, have outsized senses of entitlement abetted by their celebrity status.) MacIntyre is soon to retire from the CBC after 38 years.
bitchiness and egos what a surprise that these paragons of rectitude are failing at it
Jennifer Harwood is ridiculous. All she did was throw a can of gas on a small story.
Divert not our attention, however thin it may be in this ridiculous 24-minute media cycle, from the REAL story. Its not Jennifer “I Love To Suck Up” Harwood and her merry band of incompetant CBC “editors” who can barely edit their own actions before releasing moronic internal messages (( do they even READ what they’re about to press the send button ? )). These people are addicted to the warmth offered by nepotism and hero-worship. They will soon feel the ugly career U-turn when the CBC will be shrunk down in size to a $ 5 million information website within the next 5 years. Everyone in Ottawa can see it coming. No, the real story is that Gomeshi, monster or not, has been fired from his job, vilified on Hearsy and Innuendo, and arrested by the police on the basis that 1 CBC senior manager was “shown proof” (whatever that means), and 4 or more alledged victims reported their abuse over 4 or more years to the police. Thank the Gods of journalism it is all before a court of law…. but NOT BEFORE the CBC can do a hell of a hatchet job on Gomeshi with a ridiculous “documentary style expose” by Ms.Finlay during CBC’s The National telecast (Nov.27,2014 ?). Objective and fair journalim ??? I think not. It was the very first time I was sick to my stomach while watching the CBC push forward their version of the truth without any evidence. I felt like we were in Putin’s Russia. Who is next ? Will we be forced to listen to Wendy Messly tell us about the bullying at the hands of Peter “Order of the Monkey” Mansbridge during the 1990s ???!! Just wondering.
Hmmm… maybe the Jennifer Harwood and the CBC should INTERVIEW Wendy Messly about what Peter Mansbridge is REALLY like….! No objectivity or evidence would be required.