Sorry, you have this matter entirely wrong.
Jian Ghomeshi clearly did not do the required research for an effective interview. He broke the rule every good interviewer knows, that you must know your subject before you meet.
Professionals like Shelagh Rogers or Eleanor Wachtel or Don Newman would never be caught flat-footed as Ghomeshi, something one finds regularly with him. This was only the most embarrassing of many blunders and poor judgments.
He is simply the weakest host ever placed into this once venerable time-slot on CBC Radio.
And it is a very good question as to why he even interviews trashy characters like this guest. The answer is simple: he is the most visible evidence of CBC's lowering its standards and pandering to a mass audience. Who even needs a CBC that tries to compete with trash radio?
Ghomeshi interviewed, some while back, a mother in B.C. whose young daughter was exposed to a raw pornographic magazine (“Butt”) in a store carrying young people’s clothes. It was stupidly used as part of a display.
Ghomeshi literally badgered the mother - mildly, but nevertheless definitely badgered – as though she were the villain in the piece with her complaint, going against free expression.
It wasn’t even a national story, just an embarrassing local business, so why did Ghomeshi feature it? Complete lack of judgment.
What part of children and pornography did Ghomeshi not get I asked? Well, he got his own back, in spades, from this trashy hillbilly, another interview that should never have taken place.
Ghomeshi regularly drags up trashy candidates for interview, as Gene Simmons, the former member of the rock group Kiss, known for his own crude talk.
In another interview, Ghomeshi talked to a pop singer about his girlfriend’s “hot body.” Great, morning public radio is to sound like a locker room?
I simply do not agree that Jian Ghomeshi is "a polite and gracious host." He does not have the skills for his job, and he does not have the wide interests and sharp mind of so many CBC personalities, including other new-generation CBC personalities like the intelligent and talented Matt Galloway.
HERE ARE EXAMPLES OF THE QUALITY OF GUEST MR. GHOMESHI HAS BROUGHT TO WHAT WAS ONCE CBC RADIO'S MOST VENERABLE TIME-SLOT
