I've mentioned elsewhere this fascinating comment by Nicholas Kristof in his column of Dec 31/11.:
"Look, as a journalist, I'm proud of my profession. Yet it's also clear that commercial pressures are driving some news organizations, television in particular, to drop the ball. Instead of covering Congo, it's cheaper and easier to put a Democrat and a Republican in a studio and have them yell at each other.
The CBC is following the commercial networks down this road. Some people now working at the CBC have survived past cutbacks and layoffs by making that decision. In doing so, those people were protecting their own turfs and saving their own skins. When Salutin used the phrase being human, he meant that those people could not help doing what they did and, had we been in their position, we would have done the same.
The wisdom of Salutin's opinion piece is in that observation. It is foolish for us to expect most people who are very much like us to act as though they were saints--except, of course, those of you commenting here who really are saints!