We laughed, but it did. When broadcast news moved into an economic model, I had to suffer the consultants, as did everyone in the newsroom and the consumers we worked for. It’s a long standing battle, no one wins.
Interestingly my friend can’t handle watching Stomboulopoulos on The Hour for an hour either, they find the show too hyper.

If CBC dummies down The National I’ll be firing off a few emails and signing up The BBC on StarChoice. It’s not about changing anchors, or change, it’s about changing the ‘what’ of news.

Global went the way of US networks years ago, even putting Kevin Newman on anchor hasn’t softened that blow, hard to know what CTV News is going to look like once the network settles in with it’s new aquisitions.

You have more knowledge of what is going on in Canada than many of my friends, and you’ve been a thoughtful and intelligent commenter about your northern neighbour.

Stomboulopoulos seems to have a future as a talk-show host; he might be a bit too enegetic and gee-whiz, but I’d rather have that than someone who’s blase about things. It also may be when he’s following the calm, voice-of-authority Peter Mansbridge, anyone will look hyper.

By the way, ADD couch potato isn’t an oxymoron; have you ever heard of channel surfing?