CBC Continues Round-the-Clock coverage of Air Disaster
Toronto (LHJ) - The CBC continued it's around the clock media coverage today of the Air France disaster at Toronto's Pearson International Airport.

Although nobody was killed in the crash, or even seriously injured, and the wreckage of the aircraft is now cold, the CBC has elected to continue with it's intensive, 24 hour in depth coverage.

"This is the most important news story to break in Toronto since the SARS crisis," said Toronto bureau anchor Diana Swain, "and we will not stop until we have covered every imaginable angle of this tragedy."

The CBC drew criticism that there was nothing left to report on the story after running an in depth expose of the children of friends of passengers who were neither killed nor injured. "This is important news," replied Swain, "and Torontonians want to know the news that is important to them. And of course what is important to Toronto, is important to the nation."

Swain concluded by saying, "We feel that this extensive coverage of this near tragedy will go along ways to making the CBC as relevant, and dynamic as it has always been."

The coverage continues.