Good Talk - What Should We Learn From The CBS "60 Minutes" Disaster?
6/5/202652 min
First up this week, Prime Minister Carney summed up a critical week in the Canada-US trade discussions with the phrase, "some progress." So what does that mean? Plus the AI strategy. Then both Bruce Anderson and Chantal Hebert discuss the fall of an iconic broadcast network - CBS, and the "60 Minutes" debacle.
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First 90 secondsPeter Mansbridge· Host0:00
Are you ready for good talk? [upbeat music] And hello there, Peter Mansbridge here, along with Chantal Hébert and Bruce Anderson. It's your, uh, regular Friday good talk. You know, last week, I don't know what came over me, but something at the beginning of the show, for some reason I didn't do the normal, "Are you ready for good talk?" And I just... I said something else, and I didn't think about it again until the letters started coming in. Now, I don't want to overstate things. There were- but there were a few saying, "You can't do this. The program starts, 'Are you ready for good talk?'" Clearly, both Bruce and Chantal looked puzzled as to why that was- It was disappointing ... not normal.
Bruce Anderson· Panelist0:51
It was disappointing.
Peter Mansbridge· Host0:52
Disappointed?
Bruce Anderson· Panelist0:52
It, it was... just got off on the wrong foot.
Peter Mansbridge· Host0:54
Well, some of the writers were disappointed. Eric Ott, a guy from Winnipeg, who I don't know, um, but he sent a letter saying, "My friends and I rely on that opening because some of us record it and send it to each other, are you ready? And we ship the program around." So I thought, [laughs] I better not do that again. We can't afford to lose anybody. And so that's why we're back to are you ready after a one-week absence. I bet you're both so happy