tuned wrote:Pocketing Mansbridge's salary is more like it. Maybe they each get a little bump but by having rotating hosts no one has any bargaining power.
Great point! I
hadn't thought of that specifically. Well, I certainly thought of the aspect of giving
less profile to any one anchor; guess I never finished my thought.
CBC's reports, especially Paul Hunter's, have become more biased and more "groupthink," i.e. copycat journalism. I'm
not impressed; nor am I impressed with CTV National News mind you.
I've pretty much, sadly, given up on Canadian TV broadcast news, focusing on digital sources for my Canadian news and on a mix of BBC World News, CGTN, Al-Jazeera English and FOX News Channel for my U.S. and world affairs news coverage. For business news, it's a "mixed bag," really, of BNN, Bloomberg (preferrably the U.S. one - Lily Jamali, Rudyard Griffiths, Amanda Lang, Pat Kiernan and Mark Bunting are
all totally unwatchable on the Canadian version) and some CNBC.
Would've loved to see Diana Swain and, possibly, Mark Kelley splitting duties. Sadly, but unsurprisingly with uninspired leadership (Jennifer McGuire
must go!), they went
in the wrong direction completely, with the lone
exception of Rosie Barton, though she was likely chosen
only as the Thursday anchor and lead/host of the "At Issue" segment and commentary series. She'll probably moderate the "Insiders" segment on a night when someone else is anchoring, too. Andrew Chang seems to think he's going to be anchoring a live, western broadcast, at 10 PM Pacific; I'm
not so sure. I suspect he
could be the weekend and Friday night anchor. They already have CBC News Now for three hours, including at 10 PM Pacific, live, a host which
hasn't been named. I fear that'll go to Sarah Galashan and her dreadfully awful "verbal fry" or inexperienced, "wet under the gills," publicity-seeking and equally awful Megan Batchelor. Ian and Adrienne, who
is talented and yes has
a neat story, will likely "spell each other off" Monday through Wednesday while they take turns reporting frequently from the field. When they're
both in Toronto, Adrienne may host those three nights and read the news and then Ian will moderate the Bottom Line and Turning Point panels (hopefully the other panels get cancelled!
) and possibly introduce the long-form documentary specials, if any.
Cheers,
Doug