- Jonathan Kay on Tony Burman: Another CBC lefty takes the leap to al-Jazeera
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My dad had a great bumper sticker on his old car — I think he made it himself (he does that sort of thing) — that said "Who needs Al-Jazeera when we've got the CBC?" He was so proud of it that he once hauled CBC President Robert Rabinovitch out into the parking lot of their Montreal synagogue so Rabinovitch could look at it. (My mother thought this a tad rude on my dad's part. It was Rosh Hashannah, after all.)
My own view was that the slogan was an overstatement. Yes, the CBC can slant pretty far left, especially when it comes to the Middle East. And I've admittedly done my own share of CBC-bashing. But comparing the Ceeb to Al-Jazeera? That seemed a bit much.
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