CFRA-AM Re the Lowell Green Show (“Somalia Commission Report”)
1 CANADIAN BROADCAST STANDARDS COUNCIL ONTARIO REGIONAL COUNCIL CFRA-AM re The Lowell Green Show (“Somalia Commission Report”) (CBSC Decision 96/97-0238) Decided February 20, 1998 A. MacKay (Chair), R. Stanbury (Vice-Chair), T. Gupta, P. Fockler, M. Hogarth and M. Ziniak THE FACTS On the morning of July 3, 1997, between 8:15 and 9:00 a.m., The Lowell Green Show, an open-line show broadcast daily on CFRA-AM (Ottawa), dealt with the controversy surrounding the findings of the Commission which had been inquiring into events surrounding the killing of two Somali teenagers by Canadian military personnel on a peacekeeping mission in Somalia. In what may have appeared to frequent listeners of The Lowell Green Show to be a tongue-in-cheek approach to the issue, Mr. Green stated the following: I don’t understand what all the fuss is about. Headlines everywhere about the Somalia Inquiry Commission. The Commission should have been shut down a long time ago. Look, Art Eggleton is right. The government is right for a change. I mean after all, let’s face it, it was only a couple of Somalis. What’s all the fuss about? I mean we’re talking about a couple of Somalis here, for God’s sake. Okay? Come on, come on, come on. All this fuss, all this expense, over a couple of Somalis. And as for this crazy business about a cover-up. Let’s get real, okay. Just for a change, let’s get real. What do we civilians know about the stresses and strains of high command? Look, this thing is a military matter, better left to the military to resolve.
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