Globe & Mail reporter Bruce Dowbigging is not afraid of hockey thugs or the CBC, and writes without strings attached ...
Instead of resolving the issues openly and honestly before the public, CBC and HNIC resort to secret backroom deals.
"L'affaire Alex Burrows is now history at Hockey Night in Canada after a phone conversation yesterday between members of the Vancouver Canucks management and CBC sports executives. Both sides were tight-lipped following the klatch,
Sources had told Usual Suspects, while CBC privately conceded MacLean was over the journalistic line for not allowing Burrows to defend himself on charges of diving and lying, Vancouver couldn't get the apology it wanted.
The question then became, how could CBC placate the Canucks without publicly reprimanding its veteran host? Did MacLean or CBC finally deliver a mea culpa to the Canucks as part of the live-and-let-live? Were other concessions made instead? No one is saying. Yet."
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/canucks-cbc-bury-the-hatchet/article1446972/