CBSC inundated with complaints over Sun News Network interview

OTTAWA – The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council has been so swamped with complaints over a Sun News Network interview from earlier this month that it’s asked viewers to hold their fire.The CBSC, which upholds the standards set by Canada’s private radio and TV broadcasters, took the unprecedented step of posting an apology on its website for being unable to respond individually to every complaint about this matter (as it usually does), noting that the “volume of complaints already sent to us exceeds the Council’s resources”.The number of complaints over this one show are already more than double the number the CBSC gets...