Sure like to know how 1000′s of broadcast standards complaints are filed against one news show host about one segment without a mass organized effort. After painfully listening to this interview, I’m not even close to knowing how 4100 people could all have found it so offensive that they would all have run to their computers and done the exact same thing.
Curious if any art grant money was directly or indirectly involved organizing these complainants?
June 28, 2011 at 12:39 PM
This segment was so painful, although I didn’t complain, I certainly took the time to share it with everybody I could on Facebook in the form of, “Can you believe what a moron Krista Erickson is?”
June 28, 2011 at 12:45 PM
My ears were bleeding half way through but it’s total joke that any broadcasting standards were broken huh?
June 28, 2011 at 8:43 PM
That was my thought too. If we’re going to start mandating that interviews be high quality, we might as well throw every news channel under the bus. If we’re going to mandate that every interviewee has to be treated nicely, we might as well not have interviews.
This performance was odious, but the best response is not to patronize the station, and to say why.
June 28, 2011 at 12:50 PM
Krista is one of the reasons I can’t watch SunTV.
June 28, 2011 at 12:57 PM
No fav of mine either but these complaints stink to high heaven
June 28, 2011 at 12:59 PM
I did watch this segment. Obviously and organised campaign, Ms. Erickson conducted herself well.
If she didn’t have such a screechy voice I could listen to her better.
June 28, 2011 at 1:31 PM
Hahaha … so much for the “nobody watches Sun News” argument!
June 28, 2011 at 1:45 PM
OK I just watched the whole video. What’s the big deal? Krista didn’t do anything wrong. When she waved her arms around and asked if why that is worth 1.2 million dollars I laughed out loud. Hey, love it or hate it, that voice has been suppressed for too long and needs to be heard.
What exactly do these 4100 complainants want? If they don’t like Sun TV they aren’t forced to watch it .. or even PAY for it like the CBC.
June 28, 2011 at 1:51 PM
This interview was painful to watch. Erickson builds the introduction like she was announcing a wrestler and then ambushes the poor woman.
I personally don’t like interpretive dance but I don’t mind our government(s) funding such endeavours.
I don’t watch Erickson because she doesn’t ask intelligent questions, fails to follow up and says ‘er’ way too many times.
June 28, 2011 at 2:33 PM
As if Gillis was ambushed. She would know full well that she would have to defend and justify receiving taxpayers’ money when she agreed to appear
June 28, 2011 at 2:44 PM
Ambush from an entitled person means having to answer a question. The interview and interviewer were not fun to watch. I have no problem with real news. This pillow fight between lightweights is not necessary on SunTV.
Brian Lilley does a much better job on exposing waste without the need to interrupt or set up the guests with loaded questions.
June 28, 2011 at 3:06 PM
Lilley is the best
June 28, 2011 at 3:01 PM
I agree with BC Blue on this. The woman engages in an endeavor as ditzy and airheaded as interpretive dance and agrees to be interviewed on Sun TV when all other artists have declined and then you say she was AMBUSHED!? – PLEASE!
Tht’s like Pat Robertson agreeing to be interviewed by Bill Maher and then complaining that he wasn’t being treated fairly. Give me a break.
And come on! – RESEARCHING intreptive dance? WTF is there to research?
September 22, 2011 at 9:51 PM
Nobody who knows full well what they are in for would ever agree to be “interviewed” by Ms. Erickson. She was rude, aggressive, disrespectful, unintelligent and clearly thrown off by the beautiful way Ms. Gillis withstood the relentless barrage she found herself facing. (And no, I am not involved in the arts in any way).
Ms. Erickson should have done her homework, as Quebecor (Sun News’ parent company) receives millions in government subsidies.
June 28, 2011 at 2:44 PM
You’re an idiot McNair.
That was a tough interview but there was nothing wrong with it. Her questions were questions that any reasonable person SHOULD ask. “What sacrifices?” – indeed! What sacrifices?
A DOCTOR makes sacrifices. Giving up 8 years of his/her life in university so that he/she can graduate 250 grand in debt and get sued by some scummy ambulance chaser.
A soldier gets their leg blown off in Afghanistan for an ideal. THAT’S a sacrifice.
Sitting in a chair & waving your hands around like an autistic kid ISN’T a sacrifice.
June 28, 2011 at 2:50 PM
The piggies at the trough don’t like being asked the tough questions! We make sacrifices for the greater good? Good grief, does she really believe that?
June 28, 2011 at 2:52 PM
At the end of the day Erickson’s contributions to our nation and human endeavor are non-existent compared to Gillis’. This is kind of like Sarah Palin calling Martha Graham a freeloader. Should make any sane person throw up.
June 28, 2011 at 4:21 PM
“Erickson’s contributions to our nation and human endeavor are non-existent compared to Gillis”
What contributions did Gillis make that you are referring to?
Sitting in a chair waving her hands about and managing to convince a bunch of effete, self-imagined-intellectual, government grant addicted, do-nothing snobs that the emperor or interpretive dance is ACTUALLY wearing clothes?
Gillis was put on the spot and told to justify the money she was being given and all she could do was bluster and wail in feigned outrage.
June 28, 2011 at 2:59 PM
Couldn’t they just dance over to the remote and change the channel?!
June 28, 2011 at 3:11 PM
Interpretively change the channel maybe?
June 28, 2011 at 4:12 PM
How dare they hold something as obviously worthwhile as interpretive dance accountable.
June 28, 2011 at 4:27 PM
If Gillis is doing such a great service to humanity why do the taxpayers need to be forced to subsidize it. You would think the patrons of the arts would be more than willing to give.
June 28, 2011 at 4:36 PM
Two things that don’t jive…on one hand she says that there’s a net economic benefit to the arts but then says that it can’t support itself without grants.
June 28, 2011 at 4:55 PM
Dance! Gee-sh! “interpretive dance” LOL That sounds like something some idiot conceived of – I’m sure that 1.whatever million could have gone to fund any amount of other legitimate artists of varying stripe, I think that funding of arts programs is really stupid anyway. Why? Let artists sell their own wares! If she can fill an room with an audience then that pays for ‘her’ sacrifice – not taxpayers. Personally I would NOT watch 30 seconds of this type of stupid crap. Most ‘dance’ is just that ‘crapola’ – here’s an idea – why doesn’t she sell the idea to the CBC and make a new reality TV show: “They didn’t have strokes…It’s Interpretive Dance!” – LOL! Get the ratings!!
June 28, 2011 at 5:02 PM
I’m surprised no one has complained to a human rights tribunal yet. How dare anyone question a poor interpretive dancer about her grants? That’s against her rights!
June 28, 2011 at 8:45 PM
Apparently, James, your political opponents are marginally more intelligent and/or tolerant than you give them credit for.
Unless the delay is just because we’re busy writing up the complaint.
June 29, 2011 at 7:38 AM
Actually if you go digging on facebook for this dancer you’ll see some comments there suggesting that America’s interpretation of free speech is slowly creeping into Canada and this is part of that. Seriously. People are saying that this kind of speech is actually unacceptable in Canada. You just can’t go around asking questions about government funding of interpretive dancers. That’s WRONG. That’s hate speech.
June 29, 2011 at 1:15 PM
I try not to go digging on Facebook for meaningful political discussion. I also try not to pound a nail through my skull with a hammer.
So far, I feel I’m better off on both scores.
June 28, 2011 at 6:07 PM
Good job Krista. Don’t get to see much of Sun T.V. as I have a Bell Dish. However, interviews like this are long overdue. Next, bring on a C.B.C. exec. and have him explain all the funding sent there way and why is it necessary.
June 28, 2011 at 7:07 PM
Indeed this is an organised attack. I did not see Krista’s interview and due to dial-up internet cannot watch the clip, but I believe this was about “Swan Hands” as the performance was labelled by others. If so, to call it art is an insult to art. Still as others have pointed out no one is forced to watch Sun News, and more importantly no one is forced to fund it contrary to the state broadcaster.
Now if the 4,100 people (I make a big jump in assuming each person only made one complaint) are willing to fund this woman’s “art”, then I say great since she can be removed from the government teat. If you have something that people like, they will pay for it, but requiring government funding tells me that there are no takers in the free market of opinion.
June 28, 2011 at 8:00 PM
Whatever your views on grants for interpretive dance, Christa Erickson made a fool of herself and Sun News. I’m really disappointed if this is typical Sun News stuff.
June 29, 2011 at 7:41 AM
I don’t think so at all. She’s successfully smoked out a whole bunch of terrorists looking to shut down Sun News. They’ve come out of the caves.
June 28, 2011 at 8:05 PM
I noticed the Council’s published public response said rather pointedly that it was the quality of the complaints that mattered, not the quantity.
Might that not suggest that all 4100 ‘complaints’ were individually authored by equally talented ‘feminists’, who are angered that they, too, might be on the public funding chopping block?
June 28, 2011 at 9:00 PM
I say they solve their differences with a dance off.
June 28, 2011 at 9:53 PM
I’d pay a dollar to see that.
June 28, 2011 at 9:07 PM
I wonder how many complaints the CBC got over the Vote Compass? My bet is far more.
June 28, 2011 at 9:39 PM
The interview itself was not the most competent but the subject matter most certainly was. Erikson showed her bias all through the interview instead of letting Gillis hang herself with this childish nonsense. She was fully aware that anyone who actually worked for a living would see the stage performance as just another reason the government needs to do some heavy pruning.
June 28, 2011 at 10:53 PM
Only the lefties could get 4100 of their supporters to complain about that interview. I thought the dancer was too “shocked” to be believable. I got my degree because of “modern dance”, they were easy artsy credits, but no government grants were given to me to get them.
Krista was on point, she had the numbers, and all the dancer could do was fain shock. She couldn’t explain how she got 1.2 MILLION from the government. As a starving capitalist, I would like the same level of government funding.
June 29, 2011 at 5:17 AM
Regardless of those opinions criticizing Krista Erickson, her ‘dramatic’ interview was far superior and worthy of ‘arts funding’ than Ms. Swan Lake, arms.
The whole thing is an obscene waste of money for a zero talent and if she has the moxie to call these people out, where no other network will, I will support whatever form it takes.
June 29, 2011 at 7:31 AM
I like Krista! If I don’t like what she is offering, I have only to change the channel.
I could recognize her outrage, I feel it myself.
As for the “artist” who makes “sacrifices” for her art?
As a taxpayer I am the one making the “sacrifice”.
Even if I stumbled on her “Art form” channel surfing, and change the channel I am still paying for it.
As a long suffering taxpayer it was amusing to watch her head explode trying to justify why her art is worth over a million in taxpayer dollars.
Just another entitled to her entitlements Liberal moment.
You go Krista, if an ambush is defined by being asked “Why should I pay for you to practice your “art” if I would not walk across the street to watch it?
Perhaps the 4100 “spontaneous” complainers could pass the hat?
More Krista, faster and harder.
Perhaps a CBC program director next?
Cheers Bubba
June 29, 2011 at 7:36 AM
I am surprised that the artist went on the air without being prepared to explain the grants she received. The 1.2 million that was received over 13 years isn’t much compared to the subsidy that Sun TV’s parent company Quebecor is requesting concerning the Quebec Nordiques future arena. It was reported in the Quebec media that they will be renting a $400 million arena for 4.5 million per year which is very low. The estimated annual subsidy to Quebecor is 40 million per year.
If I was Ms Gillis, I would have brought up that factto Ms Ericson. Also, it’s hard to take Krista seriously when she was a beneficiary of CBC subsidies while she worked there.
Ms Erickson also benfits from subsidies as a travel companion to a conservative MP whom she was/is dating
June 29, 2011 at 9:39 AM
Where’s your compassion? I’m reporting you to the internet police for even questioning Quebecor on anything. I’m doing an angry interpretive dance right now about you.
June 29, 2011 at 8:22 AM
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June 29, 2011 at 10:00 AM
Hopefully she’ll never recieve another penny of our hateful taxdollars, the leftards think their live’s revolve around internet petitions and facebook. How many of them would leave their chairs to go to an actually hearing on this issue? It’s an organized witch-hunt that’s what the radical do hunt for victims who refuse to grovel at their wonderous leftarded entitled feet.
June 30, 2011 at 1:08 PM
…I can’t even figure out what you were _trying_ to say in this post…
June 29, 2011 at 10:42 AM
Gilles says she sacrifices for the common good; that is an absolutly idiotic statement but sadly typical of self-righteous, self-important socialist leeches.
June 29, 2011 at 12:30 PM
I only got halfway through. I can’t stand to watch any more. Typical entitlement lefty mentality and drivel. As someone else already noted, if it’s so great and so important, then it won’t and doesn’t and never did need funding from the taxpayer.
June 30, 2011 at 5:58 AM
What a waste of 4100 complaints.If folks are complaining about one newscaster on a netwrok supposedly no one watches, then Sun News is doing there job correctly.You get taxpayer money?Then we watch where you spend it.Be lucky im not prime minister as i would audit every single department every single year as well as NGO’s.
June 30, 2011 at 11:45 AM
Going off the tracks again, are you Adrian? You seem to be proud of how you titled your opinion of Krista on facebook, and I think I saw the same thing in twitter. Okay, she was bit harsh and I thought she should have let the dole sucker finish her sentences …. but Krista is not a moron … you are.
June 30, 2011 at 12:54 PM
Krista did her job and she is laughing about all the free publicity she is getting and as well as sun news. Wake up everyone, it’s the end of June and people are still talking about it. WHO cares really, Ms Gilles shouldn’t have agreed to the interview but she did. And now she wants to complain…
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