CBC apologises for online attack on Sarah Palin
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And that includes Canada’s hallowed national broadcaster the CBC.
According to Fox News, Canadian freelancer Heather Mallick went, “beyond vicious” in a column on would-be US vice president Sarah Palin.
Her piece was called A Mighty Wind Blows Through the Republican Convention and when you look for it on the BBC site, you get, “Sorry, we can’t find the page you requested.”
However, once something’s online, it’s online. Period. Apart from anything else, Google caches most posts, and Mallick’s Malice is no exception.
Among other things, “Palin has a toned-down version of the porn actress look favoured by this decade’s woman, the overtreated hair, puffy lips and permanently alarmed expression,” says her column, going on »»»
Bristol has what is known in Britain as the look of the teen mum, the “pramface.” Husband Todd looks like a roughneck; Track, heading off to Iraq, appears terrified. They claim to be family obsessed while being studiously terrible at parenting. What normal father would want Levi “I’m a fuckin’ redneck” Johnson prodding his daughter?
I know that I have an attachment to children that verges on the irrational, but why don’t the Palins? I’m not the one preaching homespun values but I’d destroy that ratboy before I’d let him get within scenting range of my daughter again, and so would you. Palin’s e-mails about the brother-in-law she tried to get fired as a state trooper are fizzing with rage and revenge. Turn your guns on Levi, ma’am.
Palin has it all, along with being vicious and profoundly dishonest. Just hours after her first convention speech, the Associated Press did a good fast listing of her untruths and I won’t dwell on them.
Now, the CBC which, says the Canadian Press, initially refused to take the column down, “has issued an apology and retraction”.
It goes on:
“Following 300-plus complaints from readers, and attacks from Canadian and American media organizations, including Fox News, publisher John Cruickshank said the public broadcaster had erred in its editorial judgement and the item should never have appeared on the CBC website.
“In an online statement, Cruickshank said reaction to the column has caused the CBC to install new editing procedures that will ensure inappropriate work won’t appear.”
Canadian Press – CBC offers online apology for Mallick column maligning Sarah Palin, September 28, 2008
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September 29th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
well shiver me timbers. Interesting how the neo crabs come out when there attacked yet its perfectly ok to lie and cheat and do all manner a under handed stuff on others.
A) the USA owes china ( communists) so much cash you might as well call the USA a communist lackey.
B) any statement by a republican or conservative that you or they or soeoen is COMMUNIST is really trying to say other words not permitted as they them selves actually support communism as they are after all funding it in china.
September 29th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
Chronoss, try working on coherence before you go posting on the internet. Thanks.
This sort of thing is just rude and has nothing to do with journalism and no place in politics.
Still believe there’s no liberal bias to the media?
September 29th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
Liberal bias in the media? Only if you consider anyone to the left of Bill O’Reilly a Liberal. Of course, that makes everyone but Bill a liberal since he’s so far to the right that Hitler looks like a commie.
Let Faux News bitch and moan all they want. They always do anyway.
Heather Mallick is entitled to her opinion just as much as Karl Rove’s minions are.
September 29th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
Blatant CENSORSHIP!!!
Whether we agree with someone’s commentary or not, what right does CBC or anybody else for that matter have in silencing one of their freelancer’s opinions. I personally disagree with what was written in the article and found it a very poor piece of emotion filled journalism. BUT….she is entitled to her opinion and for the CBC to buckle under some pressure to silence the piece is a travesty of our right to free speech in this country.
September 29th, 2008 at 9:58 pm
I think she hit the nail on the head.
September 30th, 2008 at 4:32 am
there is no liberal “bias”
liberals and conservatives = same crap
go look at saskatchewan how they get along soooo well
September 30th, 2008 at 11:26 am
Sure, sure. . .no liberal bias. Keep lying to yourselves. Tell me more about how Bill O’Reilly (never seen anything from the man in my life) is Hitler. It makes you very credible.
September 30th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
She is entitled to her opinion!!!
September 30th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
The CBC does have some responsibility to remain commercially viable, you know. The piece was way, way over the top for their readership. It’s mean-spirited and ugly in many parts.
It’s also laugh out loud funny in other parts, and pretty insightful about Palin in many way. The “toned-down pornstar” is a dead-on description of Palin’s grooming goals, not surprising perhaps as Mallick is a good writer and alternates between intriguing and useful social observations and fashion columns (which the latter I’ve admittedly never read).
It’s a day’s revision and some hard-hearted editing away from the column it should have been, which is a pity. Somebody rushed this one, and the CBC doesn’t really need any more insults to its reputation.
As for bias, this was an opinion piece – CBC reporting is pretty even, one notch below BBC. It’s a relatively liberal country (even currently).
October 1st, 2008 at 1:43 am
Now we know that Fox hates yellow journalism! And they will never ever again stoop to self-gratifying commentary that is not completely informative and without bias!!
Hahahahahahah! You pointless CBC guiltmongers! You sold us out to a pack of cynical hypocrites who don’t give a damn about anything but themselves.
October 22nd, 2008 at 9:07 pm
Wish we had more News that reported anything remotely important. Period. Everything out there is fluff pieces with no real journalism or deep digging. Our national media panders to their cooperate sponsors whims.