-- TORONTO -- Tony Burman, the one-time head of CBC news, has been appointed managing director of Al Jazeera's English operations.**********
Burman, 60, takes over from Nigel Parsons, who has held the position since the network's launch two years ago.
RELATED: Couldn't have seen that coming, huh?
The BBC World Service has taken a policy decision not to describe the attacks on the US as "terrorism".I guess our loss is Al-Qaeda's gain.
Tony Burman, executive director at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, said the US coverage of the crisis had failed to take account of the international perspective: "It's depressing to see the jingoism which is lamentably part of the culture and spirit of the coverage."
He said US networks regarded the attacks on Afghanistan as a football match with Washington as the home team.
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FROM THE COMMENTS:
Let's hope McDonald, Mallick and Tremonti are not far behind. Burman's comment about bias shows just how utterly blinkered that crew really is.And...
"At least now he doesn't have to pretend he's not working for them."I'd trade 10 Burman's for one Hussayn.
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