Accuracy? Or precision?

There's a couple of schools of thought here in journalism.
One is the "spare people's feeling from unnecessary graphic detail" way of thinking.
That is to leave out explicit language like "wop" or being spit upon.
The other is the "tell it like it is, we are not here to be nice, nice"
I adhere to the latter, but I have had editors who would not let me.
Perhaps Moore thought it was best to not put the spit and wop comments out there because he felt it was just unnecessary.
But in that case what he should have done was to play the clip and cut it off at the point where Calandra said he knew all about discrimination.  But what he should have done then is to paraphrase Calandra, and say something like, "Mr. Calandra went on to say was he endured anti Italian slurs and even faced physical assault."
Otherwise some people might snort and think, "oh yeah big deal, Italian guy faced discrimination... big trauma."

 

Bowmanville Bob.
Your research on John Moore seemed to have missed this, which I found in one quick Google Wikipedia search:

Career
Moore launched his career in radio journalism as a reporter at CHOM-FM in Montreal. He was also active in improv, being a founding member Montreal's On The Spot players.[2]Since 1999, Moore has worked as an entertainment reporter and film reviewer on the morning show at radio station CFRB 1010 in Toronto,
 

As such, his primary job (and presumably why his employers hired him) is to be the face and voice of a show that gets good ratings and entices advertisers to spend money on
"Good ratings" ??  CFRB hasn't had good ratings for years and are never mentioned in the top PPM releases.  Bell has destroyed a once-admired pinnacle of the industry.  'RB is a joke now.

laffin wrote:

As such, his primary job (and presumably why his employers hired him) is to be the face and voice of a show that gets good ratings and entices advertisers to spend money on
"Good ratings" ??  CFRB hasn't had good ratings for years and are never mentioned in the top PPM releases.  Bell has destroyed a once-admired pinnacle of the industry.  'RB is a joke now.

True, but that's not entirely Moore's fault. He's been handicapped by bad management and Bell's continual cost-cutting measures. He can only work with what he's given. That said, his goal is to get the best possible ratings for his timeslot and presumably, his bosses must be happy with his work given his longevity. But let's not pretend that what he's doing is journalism in any sense of the word. He's a ringmaster, pure and simple, and his job is to get people to listen.
 

newsguy1 wrote:

Your research on John Moore seemed to have missed this, which I found in one quick Google Wikipedia search:
Career
Moore launched his career in radio journalism as a reporter at CHOM-FM in Montreal. He was also active in improv, being a founding member Montreal's On The Spot players.[2]Since 1999, Moore has worked as an entertainment reporter and film reviewer on the morning show at radio station CFRB 1010 in Toronto

Wikipedia, generally speaking, is hardly a credible source. As a journalist, I do find it helpful as a first line of inquiry. I might get a general timeline for a person or topic, sometimes I get references I can explore, and it's not a bad way to derive potential questions and lines of research. But to quote it or presume accuracy? Never.

But why take my word for it. Just for the sheer hell of it, here's a quote from the John Moore Wikipedia page you cite: "On November 26, 2007, The John Moore Show did a segment in which he questioned the factual accuracy of Wikipedia."
 

Your antenna should go up when a program is called "Ask The Experts."