{"id":131,"date":"2007-02-11T14:23:12","date_gmt":"2007-02-11T19:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/2007\/02\/silverman-helps-on-cnn\/"},"modified":"2015-09-03T10:28:07","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T14:28:07","slug":"silverman-helps-on-cnn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/2007\/02\/silverman-helps-on-cnn\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Silverman Helps&#8221; on CNN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.citynews.ca\/shows\/shows_656.aspx\">Silverman Helps<\/a> is a CityNews segment, in which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citynews.ca\/shows\/personalities_639.aspx\">Peter Silverman<\/a>, a Toronto journalist, helps residence solve red tape disputes, when they feel they are being swindled by local businesses. In a recent episode, a business owner resorted to physical violence, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/video\/player\/player.html?url=\/video\/us\/2007\/02\/10\/silverman.sunglases.affl\">footage<\/a> caught the interest of CNN.<\/p>\n<p>I thought what Anderson Cooper said at the end of the CNN clip was interesting:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Wow, keeping &#8217;em honest&#8230;Just like them, at 360, we want to have you help us keep &#8217;em honest. If there&#8217;s a wrong that needs to be made right, in your community, go online [and] tell us about it, at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/360\">cnn.com\/360<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Did CNN just start doing this, of did they get the idea from Silverman Helps? Peter Silverman has been doing this for <strong>years<\/strong>, and really should be commended more for his work as an ombudsman; and the best way to do it, is for every city to adopt the idea.See more here <a style=\"text-decoration: none\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nomoreh1b.com\/greg-jacobs-incredible-dream-machines-review-and-bonus\/\"><font color=\"#555555\">http:\/\/www.nomoreh1b.com\/greg-jacobs-incredible-dream-machines-review-and-bonus<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And yes, that&#8217;s the same CityNews, that now employs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citynews.ca\/shows\/personalities_4187.aspx\">Amber MacArthur<\/a>. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silverman Helps is a CityNews segment, in which Peter Silverman, a Toronto journalist, helps residence solve red tape disputes, when they feel they are being swindled by local businesses. In a recent episode, a business owner resorted to physical violence,&hellip;  <\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/2007\/02\/silverman-helps-on-cnn\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":749,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions\/749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}