As we know, some of the staff of the state-run CBC division of the liberal-left get to be appointed to high office in the federal government or one of its thirty-eight hundred divisions, commissions, branches, or bureaucracies—and vice versa. It’s all in the family! (Of course family means different things to liberals than to conservatives, as we know, but that’s another thing.)
Others, as we know only too well, get appointed by Liberals to be the leader of all the land because, well, they so totally like deserve it. Their Royal Highnesses Adrienne Clarkson and Michaëlle Jean, for example. Soon, possibly, George Stroumboulopoulos. Rock on, dude.
Still others move on to other even better (to their way of thinking, I’m guessing) promotions. One CBC journalist has now left the CBC and has taken up with terrorist mouthpiece Al-Jazeera. The Globe and Mail takes up the story:
Veteran journalist joins Al-Jazeera sports
Brendan Connor has left the CBC to join Al-Jazeera International as a sports correspondent.
The Qatar-based English-language service hasn’t launched yet, but Connor is already on staff and plans to move to the Washington area next month to work out of its North American bureau.
“I had a good run at CBC and enjoyed it,” Connor said this week. “But this seemed like too good a chance to see the world, tell some long-form stories and be part of something new.”
Connor has worked in sports for TSN and the CBC, but for the past six years has been a news anchor at CBC Newsworld.
He saw the Al-Jazeera job posting on the Internet during the CBC lockout last year and applied.
The Globe and Mail then had the audacity to ask this important question:
But what about the stigma of representing a channel that has a name which is, to many, associated with sympathy for and the support of terrorists?
…which after reading I thought to myself, I must let my readers fill in their own jokes:
But the CBC journalist had his own answer:
“I wondered about that,” he said. “What’s it going to be like going to major-league baseball and asking for a press pass for Al-Jazeera?
“But the channel itself has been working hard for a year now to educate people that it’s Al-Jazeera International, not the Arabic channel.
“The Arabic channel has its own perspective. This channel has no mandate to do that. Its self-imposed mandate is to present the news from a different perspective.”
Yes it’s different all right. But different from what? The CBC? Mmmmmm, maybe not so much.
PTBC was founded by Mr. Johannesen in 2000.
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