Stop Being Smug

Published December 8, 2004

In a few months, of the three journalists in the United States with the greatest influence upon public opinion, two will be Canadians. Peter Jennings already occupies that extraordinarily powerful position as news anchor at ABC-TV. The leading candidate to succeed Dan Rather at CBS is J. D. Roberts, formerly a host at CTV. The reverse simply could not happen here. Since our market is small, this is defensible. But...