The CBC says it has transferred an Ottawa reporter to Toronto after she fed questions to a Liberal MP during the Mulroney-Schreiber hearings in December.
The public broadcaster says reporter Krista Erickson's actions were ``inappropriate'' and violated CBC policies.
The broadcaster says Erickson acted on her own in providing questions to a Liberal MP and there was no bias in the news coverage.
I'd link to the CBC.ca story, but ... :) However, the Corpse did send out a news release. CBC Radio covered the story 24 minutes into its 6 p.m. newscast as a voicer.
Jonathan Kay posted the following at the N-P's comment blog:
As for Ms. Erickson, she deserves to be able to get on with her journalistic career. What she did was wrong: Even if collusion between politicians and journalists is hardly unheard of in Ottawa, it is plainly inappropriate for a reporter with the national broadcaster to involver herself in a case with such partisan overtones — especially since the nature of her participation specifically involved trying to link a former Conservative PM with the current Harper government. Still, there was no evidence that she had malicious motives. Rather, she seemed to be trying to advance a juicy story line — which is, after all, what many of us journos are trying to do.*
* Including some from his own shop! Check this out.
Having gotten caught, the CBC's obligation to the Conservative Party and the Canadian public was to serve up the reporter's name and promise it won't happen again. The Ceeb has done that. And so we can all put Pablo-gate behind us.