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ROB FORDS RANT ON ALCOHOL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcPD7tzcU60
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-UrUajx0_c
Ford brothers’ weekly show on Newstalk 1010 cancelled
The station and Rob and Doug Ford have agreed to part ways, effective immediately.
ANDREW FRANCIS WALLACE
/ Toronto Star
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Mayor Rob Ford, left, and his brother, Councillor Doug Ford, during
their radio show at CFRB Newstalk 1010. last Sunday. CFRB said Friday
the show was cancelled by mutual agreement.
The Ford brothers will
no longer have their weekly chance to tell Toronto “the straight
goods,” after Newstalk 1010 pulled the plug on their radio show The City.“NewsTalk 1010, Mayor Ford and Councillor Ford have mutually determined to conclude broadcasts of The City, ending with last week’s show,” said a statement issued by the station.“Of course, Mayor Ford and Councillor Ford remain welcome at any time as guests on NewsTalk 1010.”“It was a pleasure to
work with (producer) Mike (Bendixen) & team,” read a tweet Friday
posted on Rob Ford’s Twitter account.David Bray, a radio
analyst with Bray & Partners Communication, said the station’s
statement falls short of explaining the rationale behind the decision.
The Fords’
show, which aired from 1 to 3 p.m. on Sundays, debuted in February 2012
and had decent ratings for the time slot, he said. Data is not yet
available for Sunday’s final installment — in which the mayor admitted to drinking to excess but refused to talk about the infamous crack video before it is made public.
Bray said it’s
disappointing that the show has been cancelled at a time when the mayor
is “under siege,” with councillors and others calling on him to step
aside to deal with alcohol-fuelled embarrassments.“At this stage it was valuable to give him an outlet to answer his critics and foes,” Bray said Friday.But critics say the
Fords used the show as a “bully pulpit” and that only friendly guests
were welcomed. During the call-in portion of the show, callers who
criticized the mayor or his policies were often cut short, while
political allies and gushing sycophants were granted generous airtime.Councillor Paul Ainslie, a former Ford ally, wrote a letter to the Canadian Broadcast Standards council last month asking that the show be yanked
because, he claimed, it breached council’s code of conduct. A former
Ford ally, he was upset after his ward was targeted with robocalls from
Ford because he voted against the mayor’s wishes in the Scarborough
subway extension debate.On several occasions,
the mayor used the program to defend himself when various scandals
broke, such as last summer, when videos and photos surfaced that showed
him slurring his words on a visit to the Taste of Danforth street
festival.In the spring, the brothers went on the air and dismissed the crack video controversy.“Number one, there’s
no video, so that’s all I can say. You can’t comment on something that
doesn’t exist,” Rob Ford said. Doug Ford said 80 per cent of journalists
are “nasty son-of-a-guns,” while Rob chimed in that the media are a
“bunch of maggots.”
ROB FORDS RANT ON ALCOHOL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcPD7tzcU60
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-UrUajx0_c
