12:09a Wednesday June 16, 2004
Keeping with the T. theme, check this clip of a reporter on Toronto1. She fumbles her words during a live news standup , but had no trouble getting the F-word out. "Technical difficulties" hahah - click here (490K .wmv)
3:09a Saturday February 7, 2004
Wow, this page is still fairly active. I'm getting a lot of hits from search results for "Gord Martineau". You guys are a little late, eh? This is soooo last month.
4th on Sympatico - "Gord Martineau" was the second most popular search term from Jan25-Jan29.
5th on Google
9:29p Thursday January 29, 2004
I went the way of frankmagazine.ca. That's all folks.
Send me your comments 'n stuff
JAN 27 2004
OTTAWA (CP) _ A well-known newscaster in the Toronto market was captured
making a rude gesture and referring to a Canadian singer as a ``homo'' in a
series of video clips currently circulating on the Internet.
The recordings are undated outtakes from promotional items that veteran
Citytv news anchor Gord Martineau recorded with co-anchor Anne Mroczkowski
in the studio to advertise the CityPulse at Six evening newscast, the Ottawa
Citizen reported.
The clips show Martineau mocking an upcoming news item about children with
cancer and, in another, referring to a Canadian singer as a ``homo.''
When Mroczkowski defends an item on a pancreas transplant as an interesting
medical story, Martineau points toward his groin and says, ``This is
interesting. That is not.''
In a statement Tuesday, Martineau said he's ``personally mortified some
tired, silly and inappropriate comments I made might damage the stellar
reputation that Citytv has earned.
``I apologize. I'm so proud to be part of a news team that has always been
instrumental in making a difference, and still leads the way in effecting
positive change. I ask and hope that you'll judge me based on the work I've
been part of for the last 30 years and not on a regrettable incident.''
Citytv vice-president Stephen Hurlbut said Martineau's attempt to be
humorous in an off-air exchange with a colleague many years ago was
``insensitive and inappropriate and he truly regrets his comments.''
``While our hearts are absolutely in the right place, this is a case when,
admittedly, the humour was not,'' he said in a statement.
Hurlbut told the Citizen that there would be no disciplinary action
required. ``That would be absurd.''
The offensive segments were never aired. Hurlbut said he did not know how
the clips ended up on the Internet.
The remarks are reminiscent of the imbroglio involving former CTV Newsnet
anchor Avery Haines, who in 2000 lost her job for making insensitive
comments about people with disabilities.
Haines believed she was off-air when she said joked that her own stuttering
showed ``equal opportunity'' for the disabled.
She was fired by CTV and was later hired by Citytv. She now works for
another network. (Ottawa Citizen)
