So John Moore weighed in on the Queens Park keffiyeh debate this morning shortly after 7 a.m.
Mr. Moore referenced remarks made yesterday at Queens Park by government house leader Paul Calandra. 
Mr. Calandra was talking about facing discrimination when he was a child growing up in Markham,
He said words to the effect that as an Italian Canadian he knew all about discrimination having been spit upon and called wop in his youth.
But John Moore decided to cut the Calandra clip after the Italian origins reference thus leaving out the "being spit upon" and "wop" comments. 

Shouldn't Mr. Moore have played the entire quote?

Since when did being 100 per cent accurate become an issue? 









 

Vassy Kapelos is pretty well known as a fair minded, no nonsense journalist.
I think on that we can all agree.

So I was surprised yesterday during her Sunday morning CTV Question Period to see both Brian Stelter & David Frum tag team during a segment regarding the Trump hush money trial.
Mr. Stelter from Vanity Fair and Mr. Frum from the Atlantic, both leftist publications.  And predictably, their commentary was completely one side-sided. You would think Mr. Trump was being led to the gallows the way these two "guests" carried on.

​Made me wonder where is the fair and balanced Vassy we have come to know? And should the network or perhaps she insisted on a guest to counter the "hatchet-job" you know was coming a thousand times out of a thousand from these two?

Vassy where are you?  

    

 














 
 

Wasn't paying particular notice to the Newstalk 1010 traffic reporter in the 10 a.m. hour this morning but something he said got my attention.

Bloor was clearly pronounced "blur"

Not terribly close is it?

Perhaps a one-off?

 

 

Not an Ontario Sunshine lister any longer but Ben Chin has been huddling with Trudeau for the past 5 years.

I just can't imagine 

I have heard two big name - big market - big station anchors stumble over their own names!

One was Vassy - she was signing off on Sunday & F'ed up her name while saying goodbye to her viewers.
The other was a veteran newsman at WABC New York. His name is Bob Brown. 2 friggin' syllables!!!
From what I saw and heard they were both a bit embarrassed.

Reminded me of the time many many years ago when a veteran guy left me some copy to read on air. Me being a bit lazy didn't check nor proof read & then I came to the following... cold of course..."buffeted it".
Whether he did that on purpose or not I never did ask. But I admit it threw me.

John Moore mentioned the following last week. Said he used to write news copy for a veteran newsman and would try to put the word chrysanthemum somewhere in the text because the old guy couldn't say it. Then he and other staff would gather round & listen then laugh like hell.  





 

Just watched a 30 second commercial on the CBC News channel

There were about-half-a-dozen actors of various genders, ages and ethnic backgrounds who, while smiling & looking "self-satisfied" make the comment "I'm playing with myself"

Turns out it's an ad for Casino Days - an online casino that claims to offer more than one thousand games of chance you can wager on.

The ad aired at about 5.58 p.m. eastern time.

Not funny to me. Kids easily viewing and listening at that hour. How f*cking low can we go?
 

I heard it at 6 a.m. this morning

Jesus H it was brutal

Just as you describe
 

 Numeris

They wanted to know if I would participate in their spring radio survey again this year 
It's the third time I've been asked to take part
First time was more than 40 year ago with BBM
Answered a few questions on the phone & was told my bride & I would both be getting some paper work to fill out

Told the Numeris rep that I'm an avid radio listener. Don't know how often he hears that these days! 

Looking forward to rewarding my favourite radio hosts with some love  

I will be off to The Morning Rush With Bill Carroll for the next week plus.

John Tory just ain't my cup of tea

Speaking of Mr. Carroll, he was singing the praises on Tuesday morning of Montreal Liberal MP Anthony Housefather, who has expressed his clear dismay & disdain with the Trudeau governments recent action over Gaza. Couldn't haven't spoken more highly of Mr. Housefather for showing "courage & integrity" on the issue.

Then without missing a step, Carroll ended his praises by offering his congratulations to "Mr. Horsefeather" 

None of the morning crew at CFRA, including Mr. Carroll apparently caught his faux pas

 

Well known author, broadcaster & humanitarian Mitch Albom finds himself in a hellish situation in the troubled nation of Haiti. Haiti is leaderless & currently in a state of lawlessness with armed gangs roving both the cities and countryside with little to no police or military opposition. Albom has run an orphanage in Haiti for a number of years offering support for up to 60 children. He's there currently and has absolutely no way to escape the island.

Listened to the 65 year old Albom on with the WJR morning crew early today. Albom says gunshots are a constant outside of his walled orphanage and there is no end in sight to the violence. He slammed his country and Canada for doing nothing. Albom hosts the 4 to 6 pm slot on WJR when not tending to his humanitarian work.

I wish him the very best. It is a terribly difficult potentially life threatening situation 
 

  

I will be listening to Bill Carroll this week

580 CFRA

His show starts at 5 am 

I'm all in while Mr. Moore is away

newsguy1 wrote:

 
 
 
By the way he really turned out to be a really good cop.
After Toronto police initially bungled the Bruce MacArthur murders Hank really took over and solved the case.
As I remember he took it on as a detective constable, then an acting sergeant then an acting inspector before retiring as an inspector.

 

I agree with you newsguy1

He did a professional and meticulous job with the Bruce McArthur case

And for RA -- wasn't Chris Lewis head of the OPP?

Lewis is one guy who is NOT afraid to call a spade a spade

mic'em wrote:

We had a Lee Marshall as a member here for some years that was was known as the voice of CFTO. I if remember correctly, he moved to Northern Ontario and has since gone silent. 

Your Lee Marshall retired in the fall of 2019 suffering from complications of COPD

Their crawler comes up with some real gems and they've done it once again

Read mid afternoon today not once but twice -- "crews dig out snowed-in stadium as Bills prepare to host Steelers in NHL playoff game'"- 

Defund!!

I was working in a newsroom in May 1973 when the Leafs announced they had signed both Salming and Inge Hammarstrom. The info came across the wire & we huddled trying to figure out how to pronounce "Borje" before going on the air with it. Suffice to say we didn't come close!

 
Those Crave radio commercials for the Borje series are brutal

The same guy who voices the line "I'm Gerry McNamara - a scout for the Toronto Maple Leafs" is the same guy who voices Salming's line about "putting the work in to get the job done".

Can you say low budget?

I met Salming once and asked him for a quick interview. He said he didn't "feel like talking" and that ended that.   Done and dusted in about 5 seconds.

RIP Mr. Salming