if the parties take turns at damning the CBC ... isn't that more or less the way it should be?

From CBC's Inside Politics blog please consider Seeing double in Ottawa, by Terry Milewski, the intrepid CBC reporter who garnered all of our attention during the "pepper-spray" APEC summit in Vancouver back in 1998:

[The cannons roar anew] over the alleged wickedness of the CBC. As the Conservative government launched another broadside at the supposed Liberal bias of the Mother Corp, the Globe and Mail found itself in need of a picture for its story. How to illustrate a boring press release and grab some eyeballs for the Globe website?

A cunning editor found the solution: Brian Gable's deft cartoon of a Darth Vader figure in a CBC News studio, stamping scripts as "defensible" or "indefensible" while telling the anchorman, "Please, just carry on as if I weren't here."

That cartoon was so good, they used it twice. And they didn't have to change a thing. But greybeards at the CBC recognized it.

First published on Nov. 13, 1998, the cartoon originally lampooned the Chretien government's attacks on the Liberals' supposed enemies at, yes, the CBC. Reduce, re-use, recycle: the Globe goes green!