CBC Breakfast Satire It’s OK It’s Ours

By Stephen Pate – The CBC story ” New driving law bans motorists from eating breakfast sandwiches in Nova Scotia” went viral as CBC played a joke on Nova Scotians.

What started out as a joke, went viral online as Canadians and even police were sucked in by a satirical story from CBC Radio’s This is That.”

The story was so real that the Halifax Regional Police called the CBC newsroom to talk to the fictional police officer named Bruce O’Reiley.

“It was just a joke,”  said Andrew Cochrane, CBC Regional Director. “We were trying to fool the police and the public.  It’s easy to do.”

When asked about the difference between CBC’s breakfast satire and the NJN Network disability library satire, Cochrane said they are not the same.

“That satire by Stephen Pate was a fake story.  A fake story about people in wheelchairs trying to get into the library. ”

“Our breakfast story was as a real satire.”

“In the story, Officer O’Reiley likened eating breakfast sandwiches and driving to “chewing on a gun.”

“In the satire about the library,” said Cochrane “Pate has admitted to totally fabricating a provincial government news release and then distributing that news release to PEI media outlets. ”

“Some of those PEI journalists were so gullible, one of our reporters called the Premier’s office to see if the quotes was real.”

“We’re the CBC,” said Cochrane puffing out his chest. “We can’t have unlicensed bloggers making a mockery of the CBC.”

“We kicked Pate out of the press gallery and we don’t care if it costs the public, I mean the CBC, half a million dollars, he’s not getting back in. We’re the CBC” he said, swelling his chest one more time.

CBC has hired Halifax lawyer Alan V. Parish QC to defend Pate’s claim of human rights discrimination since he is a disabled journalist.  The legal costs to date are in excess of $100,000, and that’s no joke.

By Stephen Pate, NJN Network