And hardly anyone noticed. I did watch the program last night, just for nostalgia's sake. Two conservative-minded pundits who seem to have occasionally mustered the nerve to brave the host, Carol Off, and the pugnacious studio audience, Andrew Coyne and Ruth Wedgewood, were on. The two leftwing guests were typical "Bush lied, people died" types. The topic was Abu Ghraib and the state of democracy in the world. I was actually looking for some kind of highlight reel toward the end from the last six years of CounterSpin but there wasn't anything. As I wrote back in March, the show had steadily declined in quality from its inception to its death, and it became just awful under the last host, Carol Off. The one thing to lament here is that there is now one fewer public affairs debate show on cable TV: CBC Newsworld is replacing it with an interview program.
# posted by Adam Daifallah : 8:14 AM
