Last night just wasn’t my night. I must have said something that ticked George off. Perhaps it was when I enquired what his publicist does exactly. I merely mentioned there was a particular fan that seemed to be doing much more for George then his publicist is; and that George doesn’t even give her a thank you [...]
George says that he deliberately didn’t cover the Tiger Woods story on The Hour, even though it was significant enough to be reported all over the world. “I don’t care who you’re sleeping with. Irrelevant to me. I also think it’s disingenuous for the press to go after this particular athlete. Fuck. They’ve been leaving [...]
From where we’re sitting, that would be two thumbs up, George.
Many sports require the use of a ball. But George doesn’t need any to do his brand of journalism, because he just pretends the Tiger Woods story never happened. He puts on an act, claiming he’s ignoring the story on principle, as if that’s just trash journalism. But it really means that he doesn’t understand [...]
Check it out. The newly re-designed STROMBO.COM. It’s gone from being completely boring and saying nothing to being completely boring and saying even less. Is that possible? Yes, it is. A kind of HTML machine has taken over. The page is now a radio station, unto itself. Station Strombo. Are you on George’s wavelength? It [...]
Sending Strombo to interview Hillary Clinton is further indication that CBC News is just plain dead. Why didn’t Mansbridge go? Or Rex Murphy, Mark Kelly or even Kevin O’Leary or the other celebrity fanboy, Ghomeshi? Why did The Hour go out of its way and travel from the studio to get this “interview”, as it [...]
Ryerson Review of Journalism, 2005: Jennifer Dettman, executive producer, helped create the show’s concept by targeting audiences with Stroumbo’s youthful personality. “I suppose that’s cool,” says Stroumbo, “because for the longest time, getting people under the age of 15 engaged on a Newsworld program was rare.” Doyle, on the other hand, argues that no program [...]
In the corner with George Stroumboulopoulos at the lead-up to the Haiti Relief Telethon. Nosey camera guy interrupts George’s attempt to fly the friendly skies
Where to start with this six part documentary about Love, Hate (…painfully long pause…) and Propaganda ? Let’s not start with the obvious (the “brooding hipster” host), that would be too easy. Instead, let’s talk about how this doesn’t seem to be much different then any other documentary about World War 2 that I’ve seen, except instead [...]
There are those who say Gomeshi and Strombolopoulos must have photos of numerous powerful CBC executives in bed with dead women or live boys (or comatose ladyboys) for them to still be on the air. I say pshaw, fiddlesticks, and horse hockey! Jian and George are simply far too busy living their fabulous lifestyles to [...]
In the arena of 21st century popular culture, you can get away with illegally invading sovereign nations to steal their oil and opium, even if you murder tens of thousands of innocents along the way. But when prominent public meat puppets from Adam Giambrone to Tiger Woods cynically pounce on any and every young thing [...]
This is what you’re paying for Canada. This is what Strombo is taking money for. Feeling ripped off yet? Has the CBC no shame? Richard Stursberg whines that people in Canada are not paying enough in taxes to support its public broadcaster. Money for what? Taxes being used to pay Strombo to sit for four [...]
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