Do Personal Comments belong in a News Broadcast

This evening on the CTV news, Colleen Christie passed a personal remark while delivering the news. I am tired of hearing news anchors banter to fill in the air waves with silly uninformative and otherwise useless trash talk. But for me, it was an off the cuff remark about the cost of the Queen's visit to Saskatchewan.

While the cost of the Monarch may be a matter for discussion, it does not belong to one person to denigrate what for some of us is a national symbol. I love the take Royal Air Farce does on the Queen, but this was done in a spirit of fun, Colleen Christie's comment was mean spirited and done in a derogatory way.

Ms. Christie has shown how tactless and unimaginative she is in her manner. I hate to think that looks are a plus and intelligence is lacking in one of our news anchors. But these are only my personal opinions although they are heartfelt. I really do feel some dismay at how the standards of courtesy have disappeared from our air waves. The Asper family really do have a lot to answer for in their control of the news print and the air waves. Thank the fortune of this country that so far we stillhave the CBC.