Kevin O'Leary (Canada) gets official smackdown for calling Chris Hedges a "nutbar"

[JBoy]

Further to this thread the other day: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=385&topic_id=624038&mesg_id=624038

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2011/10/14/oleary-nutbar-ombudsman_n_1011373.html

TORONTO - CBC's ombudsman says Kevin O'Leary's heated remarks during an interview with author Chris Hedges violated the public broadcaster's journalistic standards.

The watchdog says hundreds of complaints were filed after O'Leary called the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist "a nutbar" during CBC News Network's "The Lang & O'Leary Exchange" on Oct. 6

The remark came during a seven-minute segment about the Occupy Wall Street protests unfolding in the United States.

"There is room at the inn for a range of views, but there is no room for name-calling a guest," CBC ombudsman Kirk LaPointe writes in a decision dated Oct. 13.

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The CBC is still mostly a "real" journalism outfit (which is why Stephen Harper is trying to kneecap them). Nice to see them uphold standards.

O'Leary is an insufferable gasbag.

[Canuckistanian]

1. Thanks for posting!

This story has gone viral with Canadian Facebook posters.... And I went to school with the CBC Ombudsman!