Thursday, August 18, 2005

 

Breaking News: CBC Reporter Abandoned in War Zone

Sue Braiden risks her CBC job to write about her colleague Adrienne Arsenault -- she asks us to blog this and, if we're Canadian, to contact our Members of Parliament.

Apparently Arsenault was covering the Gaza situation yesterday while a labor dispute between CBC and its reporters raged back home. She filed this report (server trouble? See Google Cache of story here) only to find her credit card cancelled and her cell phone shut off . . . in a war zone. Apparently nobody from the CBC even bothered to check on her safety.

Back here in the relative safety of North America, Sue Braiden writes:
This not only flies in the face of everything I've believed about the basic decency of Canadians, but makes me sick to my stomach when I think about being part of this particular media machine.
Memo to CBC: If you think your labor problems are big today, wait until mainstram media loses its last shreds of credibility with the public, thanks to actions like this.

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