OTTAWA – Charles Adler's labeling his callers as "stupid" is "on the edge of acceptability, but did not, in the end, violate the Canadian Association of Broadcasters’ (CAB) Code of Ethics," the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council said today. Listeners had complained about the October 18th broadcast in which the Corus Radio personality aggressively addressed the B.C. teachers’ strike that was occurring at the time and the refusal of the teachers to return to work even after they had been ordered to do so by government back-to-work legislation. Adler strongly expressed his opinion that the teachers’ action was illegal and morally...
