JOHN FRASER WALKS IN SHORT, staccato steps, shuffling his feet as he moves around the offices of Saturday Night magazine, Canada’s most venerable periodical. In many ways, Fraser’s small steps symbolize the change in the magazine since he took over as editor from Robert Fulford in 1987-slight 3 movements away from the liberal leaning magazine… Continue reading Saturday Night
No Sexism, Please, We’re Broadcasters
There is an impression on the street that the only places in which female journalists don’t get the same treatment as men in the business are in the locker rooms of some of the major sports franchises. But women in television news generally agree that the sexual equality officially on display for viewers of the… Continue reading No Sexism, Please, We’re Broadcasters
Aiming to Displease
Frankly it seemed like a perfect story. It was a barbed, somewhat nasty tale, and it made all the right people look . Wrong. For Frank, the satirical magazine notorious for scoops on the press, a chance to take i poke at The Financial Post was too good a pass up. When whispers of injustice… Continue reading Aiming to Displease
CB-SEE RADIO
WHEN KING GEORGE VI and Queen Elizabeth toured Canada in 1939, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, then barely three years old, covered the visit with 91 broadcasts. Everything went smoothly until the last day when an announcer was heard describing the royal couple’s departure. “The Queen I think I told you, is wearing powder-blue,” he said.… Continue reading CB-SEE RADIO
How the West was Won
During the 1957 FEDERAL campaign, an irate western farmer asked C.D. Howe, Liberal minister of trade and commerce, how he was expected to survive with the price of oats as low as it was. When an arrogant Howe tapped the farmer on his belly and told him, “You look pretty well fed,” a young reporter… Continue reading How the West was Won
