News Article: My favorite Print Writer Says it's Time for Cherry to Step Down

[Lafleurs Guy]

I interviewed Gallagher, Delmas, Pribyl and Jimmy Bonneau (ex Bulldog, now alternate captain for the Worcester Sharks). All while NOT a member of the media.

Boom.

Daaaag....

You da man!

 

[GlassesJacketShirt]

http://www.thestar.com/news/city_ha...olving_four_female_suspects_a_bizarre_anomaly.

Great journalist alright.

Honestly, Don Cherry may be getting old and I will admit to having been scared a couple of weeks ago; I was wondering if he was suffering from a stroke while a clip was playing. He is also entertaining and reminds me a bit of our past, when different tie styles preceded cell phone skins, when hockey was every bit about beating the living **** out of the opponent as it was about dancing by them, Lafleur's golden hair flowing through an assembly of downtrodden skaters of limited mobility.......wait, maybe not.

But seriously, this author sounds like a hack to me.

 

[Lafleurs Guy]

The love-hate relationship between Lafleurs Guy and Agnostic is the best thing that has ever happened on this board

I really do have to take him off ignore.

I have no idea what he posted but I just assumed it was a shot at me. Judging by your post, I guess that I assumed correctly.

Okay, I'm going to take him off ignore now. But only for comedic purposes...

 

[Lafleurs Guy]

There we go...

Please contain your delusions to your Price thread. This is somewhat pathetic.

Looks like I was right.

 

[MicroFracture]

If that's the best writer in the country

http://www.change.org/petitions/the-toronto-star-fire-blatantly-crude-columnist-rosie-dimanno

Just another angry, man-hating pig of an excuse for a woman.

By the way, Augusta Christensen is a feminist who runs the blog stfusexists on tumblr. Just saying, since I can sense the anti-feminist butthurt in your post.

 

[Bloumeister]

What is this? Oprah's bookclub?

 

[Frankenheimer]

I was not impressed with this so-called greatest writer in the country's article. Seemed pretty average. Her main point is that 80 year olds shouldn't be on TV. But the fact is that Cherry has more flare than every other commentator on the show. What's interesting about those pudgy interchangeable hams on the hot stove? And secondly, I don't see how age should automatically disqualify anyone from working on television. There are probably many good reasons for Cherry not being on the air, but this writer didn't present anything convincing. Brian Burke is a breath of fresh air? Christ.

 

[Strat]

Bu Bye, hair head.

If you're going to insinuate that you're smarter than this person and are simultaneously trying to insult her, you should know the right term is "airhead" ; not "hair head." lol!

 

[Habs]

He should have stopped years ago, right around the same time CBC let viagra and Crown Royal advertise all the segments.

 

[Beendair Donedat]

At the end of the day everyone knows Don Cherry. Most people enjoy him (including me), and appreciate what he adds to the program as his ratings are sky high.

A much smaller percentage will have heard of this author, and isn't attacking Don Cherry a right of passage for most Canadian journalists?

Who cares what this hack has to write? Certainly not the loyal viewers who keep watching "Coach's Corner" every week.

 

[Strat]

And Don Cherry is a racist moron. I'm ashamed that my tax money pays his salary. I'll be thrilled once we're finally rid of him. What an embarrassing person to have others associate Canada with.

 

[Beendair Donedat]

Which race has Don Cherry insulted?

He's called French Canadians and Europeans soft, but those aren't "races" of people. Please list a specific example of racism by Don Cherry.

 

[DemLeafs]

"Why am I watching Mike Milbury, who’s never coached or played in Canada and has GM-ed himself out of NHL employment, as a regularly featured pundit on HNIC?"

And two paragraphs later...

"My former Star sports columnist colleague Bob Mackenzie, arguably the most knowledgeable and plugged-in hockey commentator on the planet, has already tweeted his loyalty to TSN, where he’s the unchallenged brains-guy. Which just proves that you don’t need to have played the game — in the NHL — to command respect as an analyst.

So why is TV all the time regurgitating former players and coaches as lame, out-of-their-element hockey cognoscenti? If I were a broadcasting pro, I’d resent the hell out of these magpies-come-lately."

What a great argument she is making. Best writer in the country for sure.

 

[Habs10Habs]

And Don Cherry is a racist moron. I'm ashamed that my tax money pays his salary. I'll be thrilled once we're finally rid of him. What an embarrassing person to have others associate Canada with.

Comments like this make me laugh. Have you ever met Don Cherry? Have you seen what he does to help charities and other non-profit organizations, which in turn help people from all races? I've spent many hours with the man over the years. The amount of work I've personally seen him do to help others and to promote Canada is mind boggling.

 

[Beendair Donedat]

Comments like this make me laugh. Have you ever met Don Cherry? Have you seen what he does to help charities and other non-profit organizations, which in turn help people from all races? I've spent many hours with the man over the years. The amount of work I've personally seen him do to help others and to promote Canada is mind boggling.

Absolutely. He's beloved by guys of all races, Stan Jonathan a pure blood Native, was one of his favorite players who Cherry said was "like a son to him" at one point. Just ridiculous ********.

 

[Hemlor]

Stephen Brunt says hi

 

[Toro]

Lol best writer on her block maybe.

I think when don retires or dies it will be the darkest day in Canada. The man lives and breathes canada.
I don't agree with everything he says or does but the man knows hockey and is an icon.

Tree huggers can suck it!! As don would say off camera

 

[Agnostic]

Stephen Brunt says hi

He's a sports writer and he's a great one. Rosie can write about any subject and be brilliant about it.
Middle East, euthanasia, local issues, social issues, she's clear in thinking and can just plain write.
She's particularly no-nonsense and cut to the chase on the justice files, which must make her left-wing bosses bristle at times. Her command of the English language is unparalleled yet she never comes across as pompous or arrogant (like a Conrad Black for instance).

I just assumed everyone knew who Rosie Dimanno was because everyone should know who Rosie Dimanno is. She's the best writer I have come across in this country and I am not alone in this.

 

[Jumptheshark]

Rosie Dimanno: Greatest writer in this county working for the Newspaper I hate the most, but please read on:



http://www.thestar.com/sports/hocke...or_don_cherry_to_exit_gracefully_dimanno.html

Sorry-- not the best writer working in print in Canada

 

[Kriss E]

I interviewed Gallagher, Delmas, Pribyl and Jimmy Bonneau (ex Bulldog, now alternate captain for the Worcester Sharks). All while NOT a member of the media.

Boom.

I had Souray, Koivu, Kovalev, Komisarek, Carbo, Higgins, MaxPac, Grabo, PK, and Lats.

Boom x2.

 

[DAChampion]

He's a sports writer and he's a great one. Rosie can write about any subject and be brilliant about it.
Middle East, euthanasia, local issues, social issues, she's clear in thinking and can just plain write.
She's particularly no-nonsense and cut to the chase on the justice files, which must make her left-wing bosses bristle at times. Her command of the English language is unparalleled yet she never comes across as pompous or arrogant (like a Conrad Black for instance).

I just assumed everyone knew who Rosie Dimanno was because everyone should know who Rosie Dimanno is. She's the best writer I have come across in this country and I am not alone in this.

No, not everybody cares about typical journalists working at mediocre newspapers specialising in the 500 word column.

As for Conrad Black, but is full of himself, but it's deserved and he's a better writer. The historical texts he's written on FDR, Richard Nixon, and Maurice Duplessis are on a different scale than what Dimanno has put together.

But anyway you derailed your thread with your incorrect assertion. When people think "best canadian writer" they often think of people like Munro, Atwood, Ondaatje, Martel, etc.

If somebody makes their living writing for a mediocre newspaper, then they are probably not an elite writer.

 

[Kriss E]

I'm the best writer in the Country.

2nd best. It's okay. Keep working hard.

 

[1Gold Standard]

Her take, typical of the Canadian media establishment, is arrogant and elitist...but generally that has always been their attitude towards Cherry.. they loathe how somebody could be so successful having not attended Ryerson. Their knives are out every Saturday night for 6 minutes waiting for Don to make that one final gaffe...and they'll be bloodthirsty savages when it happens.

Don gets to call his own shot and decides when he leaves... or do I get to have a say as to when Rosie departs the scene? b/c her contribution is nothing to write home about...hardly Canada's top writer.

 

[Kriss E]

Her take, typical of the Canadian media establishment, is arrogant and elitist...but generally that has always been their attitude towards Cherry.. they loathe how somebody could be so successful having not attended Ryerson. Their knives are out every Saturday night for 6 minutes waiting for Don to make that one final gaffe...and they'll be bloodthirsty savages when it happens.

Don gets to call his own shot and decides when he leaves... or do I get to have a say as to when Rosie departs the scene? b/c her contribution is nothing to write home about...hardly Canada's top writer.

You can hate or criticize her all you want. At the end of the day though, she's right. Don Cherry is way past his due.

 

[dutchy29]

She brings in the same nonsensical bias that hurts Cherry and Stock's credibility.
I agree in some terms this would be a good time for Cherry to step down, hes still well loved and received around the country. As for his bigotry, racism and biased towards the leafs, it makes most of us sick, but in my opinion yes he has been the face of hockey for many many years and it would be quite different without him, end of an era sort of thing. Cherry can be bad, but Healy, Stock are worse, way worse and if Rogers first line of business is getting rid of them I will be happy. Bring mcKenzie over from TSN would be a great move. Brian Burke is not a real upgrade for Cherry IMO. and Kevin Weeks is a keeper for sure.
However we all know how this will go down, CHerry will bad mouth the entire deal and incoming network as much as possible, he will fire off a bunch of stats and strut about stating how he will never be someones puppet and then he will be quietly removed from his post during the summer months by Rogers, ratings for HNIC will suffer and Rogers will then be able to bring in their own brand more easily, Canadians will slowly get over it just as they got over losing the NHL theme song a few years ago.