Tuesday, March 8, 2011

CBC: We have ways of making you talk; well sorta

The state broadcaster can force its employees to utter certain words, words of apology, to thin skinned viewers. Hopefully O'Leary would find a way to tell them to STFU and stop whining:

NP
The CBC's Ombudsman has blasted businessman and commentator Kevin O'Leary for using the term ''Indian giver'' on his CBC News Network show, denouncing the term as "unambiguously offensive."
The executive producer for the show, The Lang & O'Leary Exchange, has apologized directly to Alex Jamieson, an aboriginal man who complained, but Mr. O'Leary is a contract commentator and cannot be forced to express regret,
Canada: No free speech for you!