Tories face uproar over senior CBC appointments

The Conservative government is facing charges of political meddling in the selection process for a new president and chief of news operations at the CBC.New Democratic MP Charlie Angus raised the alarm yesterday, after an internal memo went out to CBC journalists advising candidates for the job of executive director of news to send their applications to Tom Long -- veteran Tory backroomer and onetime Canadian Alliance leadership candidate.

Long is now a partner of Egon Zehnder International, an executive headhunting firm that's also handling the search for a new president to succeed Liberal appointee Robert Rabinovitch, who is due to depart soon.

Source:The Globe and Mail