Bile Unleashed

Dammit, we just love the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. We've always held it dear. Love its programming, its features, its music and the quality of its broadcasting. Let alone the personalities it employs to help brighten and inform our days. Day after day. Hour after hour. It's a mainstay, always has been, in many peoples' homes. First thing in the morning, tune in to the day's news. Get the weather report, the sports news (if you're so inclined).

And the programs, the many programs that so entertain and instruct us all. We grew up with the CBC. And at one time had such enormous scorn for the type of broadcasting that came through from the United States. Their brash, loud commentators, as opposed to the moderate, mellifluous tone of ours, modeled on the estimable British Broadcasting Corporation.

How things have changed. Now, we listen often to National Public Radio. It's so refreshing. Excellent news coverage, really good public affairs programs.

And the CBC? Well, there are still quite excellent programs to be had there, both old and new, and we appreciate them. And then there is the little problem of a perceived bias in the CBC, again, modeling itself on the venerable BBC. The language it employs when speaking of Israel, and the manner in which it conveys information causes the listener - this listener - to cringe and to burn.

Take Anna Maria Tremonti, for example. She identified herself quite clearly to us as edging toward (covert, subtle) public anti-Semitism on many an occasion. Jews have developed antennae for that. Not the least when she reported directly on assignment from the Middle East. Her version of events, lauded by her employers, seemed canted toward a disinclination to balance and moderation.

Well, then, that's a subjective view, certainly. One shared, however, by many.

And this morning, on "The Current"; what a treat. She'd absented herself for a while, had others sit in for her, and they were pretty good, she wasn't at all missed. In fairness to Ms. Tremonti she's good at what she does, it's just that some, like me, don't appreciate her notable bias against Israel. And she outdid herself this morning, reporting on site.

The program, devoted entirely to the status of things in the situation between Israel and the Palestinian Territories was meant to be part of the series her program had been airing on water sources, shortages and problems globally. This was a look at the situation of water availability in Israel, purportedly. And while some portion of the program did focus on water, it was mostly meant to slam Israel's selfish apportioning of water between itself and the Palestinians.

And to linger reproachfully, and not dreadfully subtly, on the aggression of the IDF in its battle against Hamas in Gaza, attempting to put a stop to the ongoing Kassam rocket attacks against Sderot and other Israeli border settlements. She's like an old bitch (dog, female dawg) helplessly fascinated, returning to its vomit, sniffing, tentatively licking it, finding it intriguingly fulfilling.

Her profession, and her subjective view. My bile.