Like CP24, the CBC local news is busy trying to turn its interview with Rob Ford into something important. It says breathlessly that among “five things” it learned from the interview is that Ford has been addicted for 15 years. No. Really? In another CBC story, behavioural experts pronounce upon a “plateau of unhappiness” they have detected. Once again the tortured ethics of journalism (the right to know, the right to drool, the right to goose the numbers — oh sorry — don’t know how that got in there) are making monkeys of otherwise sensible news organizations. What any reasonable person wants — even the screaming shirtless jogger — is for Rob Ford to go. If he were not so shamelessly pig-headed he would have gone months ago. It is unimportant now to whom he gave his cars keys in Muskoka. Unless Leanne McRobb decides to run for mayor. This appetite may be fed by All My Children.
