When News Organizations Go Unstaffed

[Dave Edwards from Big Story

IM’d me to point this out] The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, still

in the throes of its employee lockout (a tentative agreement was signed

yesterday), has been making do with other employees filling in for news

writers, and it’s showing:

A screenshot of the CBC story on the film based on

Edward R. “Morrow”. The highlighting is mine. Click the picture to go

to its web page.

It’s sad when a news organization gets the names of its heroes wrong. The gentleman in question is actually Edward R. Murrow.

Never heard of the man? Don’t feel bad; apparently the folks currently

running the CBC haven’t either. He’s notable for his reporting in World

War II (especially the then-shocking way he covered the liberation of Buchenwald) and his instrumental role in taking down Senator McCarthy (who, in these debased times, is being held up as a hero by some total wingnuts). You might want to see his Wikipedia entry.