In a snit over Kate

What's with the otherwise excellent Tod Maffin getting his knickers in a knot at his Inside the CBC blog over the way the Globe and Mail -- and particularly Kate Taylor -- have been covering the state of the CBC?

Yes, the Globe is owned by Bell Globemedia, which also owns CTV. But to imply that Taylor's writing critically about the CBC because her paper's parent company owns a competing network strikes me as a bit ridiculous, and more than a bit sophomoric. Taylor is a savvy observer and strong supporter of Canadian culture. When I was editing Canadian Screenwriter magazine, I loved her; she was one of the few mainstream Canadian media voices who got it -- that Canadian film and television are important and need support.

And if Taylor and the Globe are going to come in for heavy criticism over their picking over the CBC and running repeated stories on the cancellation of the reality TV fiasco The One, then why not attack Antonia Zerbisias, over at the Toronto Star, whose most recent blog post on the CBC ends with the words "More fuel for its funeral pyre."

Last I checked, Torstar didn't own any competing TV properties.