Charles Lynch (journalist)
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Charles Burchill Lynch | |
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Born | Charles Burchill Lynch December 3, 1919 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States |
Died | July 21, 1994 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | (aged 74)
Occupation | Journalist and Author |
Nationality | Canadian |
Genre | Non-fiction |
Subject | Politics |
Charles Burchill Lynch, OC (3 December 1919 – 21 July 1994) was a Canadian journalist and author.
Biography
Born in
Lynch was appointed Vancouver bureau chief of the British United Press in 1940. The following year, he was transferred to Toronto to assume the position of divisional manager.
Reuters years
In 1943, Lynch joined
Lynch's presence on Juno Beach is featured in Cornelius Ryan's 1959 book The Longest Day. When homing pigeons used by the correspondents flew towards the German lines, Lynch is quoted in the book as having screamed at the pigeons that they were "Traitors! Damn traitors!".[2] In the 1962 hit film based on Ryan's book, a fictionalized portrayal of Lynch's pigeon accusation is shown taking place on Sword Beach, by a British correspondent.
Following the War, Lynch covered the first four months of the
He then moved with his family to
Southam years
Lynch moved back to
During his time with Southam, Lynch made a historic two-month trip to
In his role as Southam News Chief, Lynch frequently worked with CBC television as a political expert. To watch a November 22, 1959 clip of Lynch interviewing Minister of External Affairs Howard Green about Canada's election to the UN Security Council, click here: [1]. From 1970 to 1974 - while still acting as Southam News Chief - Lynch co-hosted the CBC television program Encounter. The show was CBC's venue for questioning Canada's major political figures, including Prime Minister
Awards
In 1977, Lynch was made an Officer of the Order of Canada as an acknowledgment of "the vitality, insight and integrity he has shown during his forty years of reporting the news".[6]
In 1981 he was inducted into the Canadian News Hall of Fame. He was awarded an
Retirement
In 1984, he retired and became a freelance writer. During the Meech Lake Accord debate of the late 1980s, he faced criticism for writing in his weekly column that the province of Newfoundland should be expelled from Confederation for its opposition to the accord, as it was a more expendable province than Quebec; this comment led to the emergence of political satirist Rick Mercer, who first emerged in 1990 with the stage show Show Me the Button, I'll Push It, or Charles Lynch Must Die.[7]
In 1998, the National Press Club of Canada established the Charles Lynch Award in his honour. The award is given out annually in recognition of a Canadian journalist's outstanding coverage of national issues.
Lynch was the father of Andrew Lynch, a notable publisher and journalist in the city of Victoria, British Columbia.
Selected bibliography
- China, One Fourth of the World (1965)
- You Can't Print That! (1983, ISBN 0-88830-245-2)
- Our Retiring Prime Minister (1983, ISBN 0-7704-1827-9)
- Race for the Rose: Election 1984 (1984, ISBN 0-458-98460-4)
- A Funny Way to Run a Country: Further Memoirs of a Political Voyeur (1988, ISBN 0-88830-294-0)
- The Lynch Mob: Stringing Up Our Prime Ministers (1988, ISBN 1-55013-108-7)
- Up from the Ashes: The Rideau Club Story (1990, ISBN 0-7766-0310-8)
- Fishing With Simon (1991, ISBN 0-13-318809-4)
External links
- Charles Lynch fonds (MG31-D247) at Library and Archives Canada
- "Charles Burchill Lynch" by Crowe, Jean Margaret in The Canadian Encyclopedia. Accessed 29 March 2022.
References
- ^ CBC Archives - June 8, 1944
- ISBN 978-0-671-89155-8.
- ^ "The Empire Club of Canada Speeches 1957-1958 pp. 47-59". Archived from the original on 2006-11-16. Retrieved 2006-12-20.
- ^ Charles Burchill Lynch fonds Archived March 12, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ John English, The Worldly Years: Life of Lester Pearson 1949-1972 (Random House Digital, 2011); Sean M. Maloney, Learning to Love the Bomb (Potomac Books, 2007)
- ^ Order of Canada citation
- ^ "Another story on the constitution? NOT!" The Globe and Mail, September 1, 1992.