Krista Erickson Cleared by CBC Ombudsman
The CBC Office of the Ombudsman, an independent body, has cleared Krista Erickson of allegations of bias.
According to the Winnipeg Sun,
There is absolutely no evidence of any partisan interest on her part — she is an aggressive reporter who will pursue a story no matter whose interests are at stake,” ombudsman Vince Carlin wrote in a recent report.
Erickson was reassigned out of Ottawa in January after a CBC investigation determined that she passed questions to Liberals during the Mulroney-Schreiber hearings. Erickson has since been reinstated to the Ottawa parliamentary bureau.
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ummm…I’m not sure cleared would be the best way to describe this. Carlin said she shouldn’t have planted the question. Period.
He said she doesn’t have a good understanding of the journalistic policies and practices, but places some of the blame on management for not having a written policy on planting questions and for hiring someone into that position who doesn’t have a good grasp of the policy. He noted that unlike most reporters on the hill, she wasn’t a national reporter somewhere else or even spent much time out in the field as a reporter.
Who would be surprised that the CBC cleared its own “reporter” of working with the Liberals?
she should be an anchor… if she was the CBC’s ratings would go through the roof!
2 hot,
She used to be the local anchor for Winnipeg.
Mike from NS…she,s dating a conservative MLA so don’t go there
ooopss a mistake : not MLA but MP