Comedian Josh Johnson pulls CBC editor on stage | The Moment

The editor's here. If I could steal you for five minutes. I was at a Josh Johnson show with my wife. He started talking about how much he enjoyed Canadian news. Ever since I landed in Vancouver, I've been watching a lot of your CBC news. He mentioned a specific story about a shop cat here in Vancouver. I just can't imagine the day that the editor is having. That this is the news that makes it. I want so badly to meet the editor. My eyes bugged out because I remember thinking, oh, I remember that story. My wife shouted, The editor's here! There was a brief moment of quiet terror. He then said, do you want to come up on stage? He asked me about this story. So may I clarify, we do a lot of stories about cats. I need to know the specific cat. Okay. He kind of asked me, why would you do a story about this cat and kind of what's the process? I explained, we're a public broadcast. We have a thing called journalistic standards and practices, which is sort of our framework for how we do our jobs. There's really no need to brag. I can't believe I'm on stage discussing the story. We talked to the cat's owner, the cat potentially, then city council, right? We've got to get their side, right? It's fair. People applauded the CBC. It was kind of a nice kind of affirmation of the work we do. Listen, it wasn't just the cat that had him going. He couldn't sort of figure out that story about that island in BC that appeared and then disappeared. Stick around. We got a lot of those stories.