With three national networks comes three national news anchors who bring their distinct views of the world to the masses through glowing boxes.
One shares a name with a screwdriver, one married a CBC starlet and one wears a tie, but are all of those things enough to make one of them the most middling Canadian?
As some of our newshounds put it:
Kevin Newman - "A smarmy, politically correct man, who,like Dicken's Uriah Heap, will interview someone like Stephen Harper with polite sarcasm in one breath and knife him behind his back when he's gone in the next. A parasite."
Lloyd Robertson - "A third-rate anchor of a second-rate news cast who thinks he's Canada's version of Dan Rather. Okay, he could be right on that given Rather's sucktitude, but, criminy. You'd think our country's biggest news program could find an anchor who behaves more like a news anchor and less like a wrinkled Max Headroom."
Peter Mansbridge - "He's a lame newsthingie bloated with self importance. His sense of 'gravitas' recalls in my mind the conviction and timbre of a kazoo played by pre-schoolers."
But is having a job that allows them to go pantless in front of thousands enough to put them ahead of Roy Forbes? You decide.
One shares a name with a screwdriver, one married a CBC starlet and one wears a tie, but are all of those things enough to make one of them the most middling Canadian?
As some of our newshounds put it:
Kevin Newman - "A smarmy, politically correct man, who,like Dicken's Uriah Heap, will interview someone like Stephen Harper with polite sarcasm in one breath and knife him behind his back when he's gone in the next. A parasite."
Lloyd Robertson - "A third-rate anchor of a second-rate news cast who thinks he's Canada's version of Dan Rather. Okay, he could be right on that given Rather's sucktitude, but, criminy. You'd think our country's biggest news program could find an anchor who behaves more like a news anchor and less like a wrinkled Max Headroom."
Peter Mansbridge - "He's a lame newsthingie bloated with self importance. His sense of 'gravitas' recalls in my mind the conviction and timbre of a kazoo played by pre-schoolers."
But is having a job that allows them to go pantless in front of thousands enough to put them ahead of Roy Forbes? You decide.
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