Bob McKeown
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Bob McKeown C | |
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Height | 6 ft 2 in (188 cm) |
Weight | 225 lb (102 kg) |
College | Yale |
Career history | |
As player | |
1971–1975 | Ottawa Rough Riders |
Career highlights and awards | |
CFL East All-Star | 1974 |
Honours | 1973 - Grey Cup Champion |
Robert Duff McKeown,
Early life
McKeown graduated from Yale University and had a five-year professional football career before dedicating himself to journalism.
Before beginning his broadcasting career, McKeown played professional football for five seasons with the CFL's Ottawa Rough Riders. The Rough Riders won the Grey Cup in 1973. McKeown was an all-star in 1974 at the position of centre.[1]
Career
Dateline
McKeown's work with Dateline includes coverage of the
(on whom he also did a Fifth Estate report).CBS
A five-year stint with CBS News is highlighted by his award-winning coverage of the
While at CBS, he was also a correspondent for two prime-time newsmagazines, Street Stories and America Tonight, and contributed to
The Fifth Estate
In January 2005, McKeown challenged a statement made by American conservative polemicist Ann Coulter during her Fifth Estate interview. Coulter had asserted that Canada's non-participation in the 2003 invasion of Iraq demonstrated that Canada's "loyal friendship" with the United States was weaker than in the past. As part of her broader attempt to compare the Canadian response to the Iraq war with that of Vietnam, Coulter erroneously asserted that "Canada sent troops to Vietnam." McKeown corrected her, "No, actually, Canada didn't send troops to Vietnam."[2] Although no uniformed Canadian troops were involved in war, Canadians did participate through counterinsurgency efforts in South Vietnam and reconnaissance for US bombing runs in North Vietnam.[3] Later during an interview on the American C-SPAN channel, Coulter stated that McKeown did not mention that 10,000 Canadian troops ran across the border to enlist in the United States army. She also went on to call McKeown "a bubble-head, a Ted Baxter." She had said she would get back in touch with the CBC, but has yet to do so.[citation needed]
McKeown has also taken on other conservative pundits, such as
In 1982, McKeown anchored a special Fifth Estate report about animal cruelty in Hollywood, focusing on the 1958 Walt Disney film White Wilderness as well as the television program Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom. In the report, McKeown found that the lemming scene was filmed not at the Arctic Ocean, but at the Bow River near downtown Calgary, where the lemmings were forced into the river; in addition, he also discovered that the footage of a polar bear cub falling down an Arctic ice slope was in actuality filmed in a Calgary film studio.[4][5][6] In light of the findings for the report, McKeown asked Wild Kingdom host Marlin Perkins if he had deliberately injured or killed animals while making wildlife films. Perkins, then in his seventies, "firmly asked for the camera to be turned off, then punched a shocked McKeown in the face."[7]
In a November 2016 CBC News article, McKeown, a former CFL player who dealt with concussions during his football career, announced that he would donate his brain to the Canadian Sports Concussion Project.[8]
Documentary films
In addition to hosting The Fifth Estate in the 1980s, McKeown produced, wrote and directed several critically acclaimed documentaries. These include The Boys on the Bus, an intimate portrait of the Edmonton Oilers as they won the 1987 Stanley Cup, Les Canadiens, a history of the Montreal Canadiens, and Strangers in a Strange Land, which depicted the trials and tribulations of a Canadian movie crew in China as it shot a feature film about the legendary doctor, Norman Bethune.
Accolades
He has reported from more than 60 countries and has been recognized with dozens of major journalistic prizes, including two
References
- ^ "Dynasty to death: CBC's Fifth Estate examines head injuries in football". CBC Sports. November 19, 2008. Retrieved November 19, 2008.
- ^ a b Sticks and Stones, the fifth estate, CBC Television, aired January 26, 2005
- ^ The Canadian Encyclopedia - Vietnam War Archived September 30, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Cruelty to Animals in the Entertainment Business, CBC News
- ^ "Snopes.com suicides". February 27, 1996. Retrieved July 12, 2009.
- ^ "Lights, Camera, Wildlife" Archived 2012-08-18 at the Wayback Machine; Zoogoer Magazine, National Zoological Park
- ^ The Fifth Estate: "How We Work" at the CBC
- ^ "Why I'm donating my brain for concussion research: Bob McKeown | CBC News".
External links
- the fifth estate
- Bob's bio on the fifth estate's website
- An outsider's perspective on the divide between liberal and conservative news media in America, focusing specifically on Crossfire: a full-length documentaryby the fifth estate.