Remember Peter Mansbridge speaking for the oil industry?

[Locutus]

The ceeb continues and some say this is worse than ol' Pete or Rex:

Amanda Lang took money from Manulife & Sun Life, gave them favourable CBC coverage

CBC "stands by" her journalism


Remember last winter when CANADALAND revealed that Peter Mansbridge took a lucrative contract from an oil sands lobbying consortium while covering the oil sands industry on the news?

Remember last spring when the CBC grudgingly admitted this might be a problem and changed its paid speaking engagement policy to prevent this kind of thing from happening again?

Well, check this out.

1. Here are two paid gigs Amanda Lang, CBC News' Senior Business Correspondent, had with Manulife. They took place on July 10 and August 7, 2014. From the CBC's disclosure page:

2. Now here is Lang on September 5 – not quite a month later – welcoming Manulife CEO Donald Guloien on her business affairs show The Exchange for a cozy interview about his company’s $4bn acquisition of a competitor’s Canadian assets.


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Amanda Lang took money from Manulife & Sun Life, gave them favourable CBC coverage | CANADALAND

 

[Locutus]

Canada Land;

Last month CANADALAND reported that Amanda Lang took lucrative speaking jobs from insurance companies and then gave them positive news coverage on CBC TV.

That was nothing.

Multiple sources within CBC News have revealed to CANADALAND, under condition of anonymity, a shocking campaign Amanda Lang undertook in 2013 to sabotage a major story reported by her colleague, investigative reporter Kathy Tomlinson.

Key details of these events have been confirmed to CANADALAND by Tomlinson's spouse, Alan Fryer, a former W-FIVE reporter and Washington Bureau chief for CTV News.
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Plus, plenty more, along with a rebuttal from CBC.


She used to play Liberal advocate to O'Leary's capitalist views on the CBC's Lang and O'Leary show. Turns out she wasn't just playing the part after all.

She is Otto Lang's daughter.


Amanda Lang in “serious relationship” with RBC board member while reporting on RBC



Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors - Small Dead Animals

 

[tay]

I'm guessing the pressure from the Harper CONs to revoke the CBC's funding is causing a lot of the Pro Corporate biased programming......








Setting the record straight about CBC News coverage of the foreign worker program






CBC News did not kill any story about RBC's use of the foreign worker program. We did not kill a story on the World at Six on Monday, April 8, 2013 as Mr. Craig implies in his blog. It is not true that we did not speak to people who took part in the call. We spoke to the producers who organized it, as well as some participants, both in 2013 and more recently as Canadaland was pursuing the story. Yes, there was a different point of view about the story and yes that different point of view was aired during the call. There was rigorous debate but there was no "sabotage," and the notion that "Lang's efforts to scuttle the story were successful, at first" is categorically untrue. The story rolled out on all platforms.









Setting the record straight about CBC News coverage of the foreign worker program - Editor's Blog

 

[tay]

Sources close to Amanda Lang, who spoke to CANADALAND on the condition of anonymity, confirm that she has been in a romantic relationship with RBC Board Member W. Geoffrey Beattie since January 2013 at the latest. This relationship is ongoing, and the two were involved in April 2013, when Lang acted within the CBC to scuttle a colleague’s reporting on abuses of Canadian labour law by RBC.




Predictably, CBC management is circling the wagons (link is external).

CBC News Editor-in-Chief Jennifer McGuire said in a memo to staff Monday that the allegations about business reporter Amanda Lang’s involvement in the story on RBC’s use of temporary foreign workers were “categorically untrue.”End of story. Or so the CBC might wish. But with the kind of fine investigative work being done at Canadaland (they were, in fact, the first to uncover the Jian Ghomeshi accusations), I suspect that this story is far from dead.

 

[tay]

Another perspective...........




Our ‘impartial’ broadcasters have become mouthpieces of the elite

If you think the news is balanced, think again. Journalists who should challenge power are doing its dirty work






Canadaland, which exposed Lang’s conflicts last week, found that other journalists at the broadcaster were furious, but too frightened to speak on the record. But after CBC tried to dismiss the scandal as “half-truths based on anonymous sources”, Kathy Tomlinson, the reporter who had broken the story about the bank, bravely spoke publicly to the website. The following morning, staff in her office arrived to find this message spelt out in magnets on their fridge: “Jesse Brown snitches get stitches”. Jesse Brown is Canadaland’s founder.


CBC refused to answer my questions, and I have not had a response from Lang. It amazes me that she remains employed by CBC, which has so far done nothing but bluster and berate its critics.


This is grotesque. But it’s symptomatic of a much wider problem in journalism: those who are supposed to scrutinise the financial and political elite are embedded within it. Many belong to a service-sector aristocracy, wedded metaphorically (sometimes literally) to finance. Often unwittingly, they amplify the voices of the elite, while muffling those raised against it.


A study by academics at the Cardiff School of Journalism examined the BBC Today programme’s reporting of the bank bailouts in 2008. It discovered that the contributors it chose were “almost completely dominated by stockbrokers, investment bankers, hedge fund managers and other City voices. Civil society voices or commentators who questioned the benefits of having such a large finance sector were almost completely absent from coverage.” The financiers who had caused the crisis were asked to interpret it.


The same goes for discussions about the deficit and the perceived need for austerity. The debate has been dominated by political and economic elites, while alternative voices – arguing that the crisis has been exaggerated, or that instead of cuts, the government should respond with Keynesian spending programmes or taxes on financial transactions, wealth or land – have scarcely been heard. Those priorities have changed your life: the BBC helped to shape the political consensus under which so many are now suffering.




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Our ‘impartial’ broadcasters have become mouthpieces of the elite | George Monbiot | Comment is free | The Guardian

 

[Blackleaf]

You deserve to be shot for reading not only The Guardian but also George Monbiot.

Shame on you, sir!

 

[tay]

What's interesting to me is that Global ditched Leslie Roberts for pretty much the same thing........






http://forums.canadiancontent.net/n...-leslie-roberts.html?highlight=Leslie+Roberts

 

[Liberalman]

What's interesting to me is that Global ditched Leslie Roberts for pretty much the same thing.

Global saw the writing on the wall

 

[Walter]

What's interesting to me is that Global ditched Leslie Roberts for pretty much the same thing........
http://forums.canadiancontent.net/n...-leslie-roberts.html?highlight=Leslie+Roberts

Glowball is privately owned.

 

[MHz]

If the announcers wrote their own reports they would need to read them of some page written by somebody else..

Glowball is privately owned.

How about Lowball News? That taken also?

 

[Cannuck]

Glowball is privately owned.

So? They get millions in subsidies. The CBC and privately owned media both suck on the government ***. At least the CBC is open and honest about it. Besides, intergrity in the news business should not be based on who signs your paycheck or do you disagree?

 

[Walter]

They get millions in subsidies.

Link?

 

[Cannuck]

Link?

The Private Industry Is As Rich As the CBC | Wade Rowland

You really shouldn't be so lazy Walter. Expecting people to spoon feed you makes you sound like a Dipper.

 

[Cannuck]

Besides, intergrity in the news business should not be based on who signs your paycheck or do you disagree?

Well Wally, do you disagree?

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Of course not. Walter thinks integrity is the sole province of Fox News, The Blaze, and the Daily Mail.

 

[tay]

I'm calling this BS...............








CBC review concludes Amanda Lang met journalistic standards






“It also concluded that the content of Amanda Lang’s journalism has adhered to CBC’s journalistic standards,” Ms. McGuire said.
Ms. Lang became the focus of conflict-of-interest concerns after the media website Canadaland alleged she had tried to scuttle a story on RBC and foriegn workers led by CBC investigative reporter Kathy Tomlinson, and pointed to Ms. Lang’s relationship with an RBC board member.


She also did paid speaking engagements at events where RBC was a sponsor, and was scheduled to speak at an event on outsourcing shortly after Ms. Tomlinson’s stories began running, but cancelled her appearance. In January, as public pressure mounted, the CBC changed its policy and banned on-air journalists from paid speaking outside the organization.


In an interview earlier this year, Ms. Lang said she had “absolutely not” tried to spike any story, nor does she have the power to, calling her exchanges with Ms. Tomlinson “a genuine and honest disagreement about what the story was.” She also said she had disclosed her relationship with Geoff Beattie, a member of RBC’s board, to the CBC, but not before the stories in question went to air.




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CBC review concludes Amanda Lang met journalistic standards - The Globe and Mail

 

[Kreskin]

If the absence of connections and conflict if interest is the gold standard for journalistic integrity then FoxNews has no integrity whatsoever.

 

[Locutus]

I'm calling this BS...............








CBC review concludes Amanda Lang met journalistic standards






“It also concluded that the content of Amanda Lang’s journalism has adhered to CBC’s journalistic standards,” Ms. McGuire said.
Ms. Lang became the focus of conflict-of-interest concerns after the media website Canadaland alleged she had tried to scuttle a story on RBC and foriegn workers led by CBC investigative reporter Kathy Tomlinson, and pointed to Ms. Lang’s relationship with an RBC board member.


She also did paid speaking engagements at events where RBC was a sponsor, and was scheduled to speak at an event on outsourcing shortly after Ms. Tomlinson’s stories began running, but cancelled her appearance. In January, as public pressure mounted, the CBC changed its policy and banned on-air journalists from paid speaking outside the organization.


In an interview earlier this year, Ms. Lang said she had “absolutely not” tried to spike any story, nor does she have the power to, calling her exchanges with Ms. Tomlinson “a genuine and honest disagreement about what the story was.” She also said she had disclosed her relationship with Geoff Beattie, a member of RBC’s board, to the CBC, but not before the stories in question went to air.




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CBC review concludes Amanda Lang met journalistic standards - The Globe and Mail

nice retort here from a quality site. must unasterik and insert sh!t

http://canadalandshow.com/article/why-cbcs-amanda-lang-review-horse****

 

[personal touch]

Leave Amanda alone,what is good for Senator Duffy is good for anyone else,we call it the whiskey and water syndrome out here in Alberta,after a while,"what is good for the goose is good for the gander".Then again Amanda is different to me.
I for one,am a big fan of Amanda Lang,she is one of those seldon role models in the delivery of the message world,something like Alison Redford.
I view Amanda as,articulated, talented,sincere,intelligent,committed,etc,therefore I would assume her time is worth something and more so using her name is another pay as you go,I imagine her as noone's fool,and would favor what she endorses.
I would say her name is worth alot,me for one would like to view her in person,I would go out of my budget to see her speak,if of course it is before 7pm.
She is no Senator Duffy,I don't see her sucking the life out of a good thing,then I could be wrong again.I view her of a person of good character,she provides me hope.
The Exchange with Amanda Lang is a great watch,sometimes I question her poltical edging,but there again,she influences my thought process's,and what is good for Amanda is good for me,I like the way she makes me think different,she is a great role model.
As i recall,she appeared on a Canadian comedy show,I think it was Royal aforce or something like that,they said she was difficult to get to clown around because she is serious,I see big things for her in the future.
I wish she would take me along.