Bob McKeown has worked for CBC Television and has worked for NBC and CBS.
14 Facts About Bob McKeown
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Bob McKeown returned to the CBC in November 2002 to host its investigative program, The Fifth Estate, a show which he had previously hosted from 1981 to 1990.
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Bob McKeown graduated from Yale University and had a five-year professional football career before dedicating himself to journalism.
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Bob McKeown was an all-star in 1974 at the position of centre.
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Bob McKeown was the first reporter to broadcast from the front lines during Operation Desert Storm and reached Kuwait City as Iraqi troops were fleeing, almost a day before allied forces arrived.
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In January 2005, Bob McKeown challenged a statement made by American conservative polemicist Ann Coulter during her Fifth Estate interview.
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Later during an interview on the American C-SPAN channel, Coulter stated that Bob McKeown did not mention that 10,000 Canadian troops ran across the border to enlist in the United States army.
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Bob McKeown has taken on other conservative pundits, such as Fox News Channel host Bill O'Reilly, whom he accused of lying and distorting facts, while trying to convey the news to the American people.
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Bob McKeown used O'Reilly's reference to what he called the "Paris Business Review" and the billions of dollars France had lost due to the boycott that he had initialized following France's decision not to participate in the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
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Bob McKeown pointed out that trade between France and the United States actually went up since O'Reilly initialized the boycott and that the Paris Business Review does not even exist.
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In 1982, Bob McKeown anchored a special Fifth Estate report about animal cruelty in Hollywood, focusing on the 1958 Walt Disney film White Wilderness as well as the television program Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom.
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In light of the findings for the report, Bob McKeown asked Wild Kingdom host Marlin Perkins if he had deliberately injured or killed animals while making wildlife films.
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Bob McKeown retired at the end of November 2024 after hosting a retrospective marking The Fifth Estate's fiftieth anniversary.
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Bob McKeown was appointed to the Order of Canada in 2001 "for his excellence in investigative journalism for television".