I was hunting about for more information about Tony Burman, who left the CBC last year and has just been announced as the new managing director for al-Jazeera English.

At this CBC.ca page -- editor-in-chief biography -- I found the following:

I was out last night and missed CBC TV News' At Issue panel on The National, which is usually quite engaging (although the May 7 special edition one on whether the U.S. primary system is better a better process than the one used to pick Canadian political leaders was a snoozer).

I go to CBC.ca's website and find the page that would host the online video version (A photo op too far?).

It's now at least 12 hours after the segment would have aired in the Eastern time zone last night, and it still hasn't been posted.

The page only promises it will be posted "Friday."

No rush. Not a problem. I'll just keep coming back -- it's good for CBC.ca's page views.

But I would note that somehow, my employer, CTV.ca News, manages to get such video posted within 20 minutes of airing, but that's just us. There's no reason other online news outlets have to be timely too.

From the Globe and Mail:

The Department of National Defence sets quotas for how many times a year a military think tank it subsidizes must appear in the news media, a contract made public at the request of the NDP shows.