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12 Tony Parsons
Many things changed at Global BC (formerly BCTV) during the past 35
years—hair length, tie width, set design, everyone else on the six o’clock
news—but the anchorperson delivering the stories on the highest rated
regional newscast in the country, did not. Not until December 15, 2009
when Tony Parsons called it a day. His new book is entitled A Life in
the News (Harbour Publishing). It’s a life, however, that has
consisted of much more than the news and Parsons tells it all, from his
childhood in England through his 50-year career in Canadian broadcasting.
Along the way there have been dozens of awards, fame and fortune, and
universal peer recognition. There has also been depression, alcohol abuse
and several failed marriages. He is an obsessive golfer, a “grammar
grouch” who cannot abide poor syntax, bad spelling, and misused words,
and a passionate dog lover (Jack, his beloved Maltese cross, slept at his
feet during newscasts). It is a fascinating and revealing memoir.
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