Lesley primeau biography of williams

Posted on January 29, 2012By Mike RossCulture, Front Slider, TV and Radio

Lesley Primeau comes off like a hard-boiled, old-school journalist you don’t want to mess with if you know what’s good for you.

Lesley primeau biography of williams

She talks a tough game, takes a stand, doesn’t back down, champions the underdog, fights for justice, truth and the Canadian way. It’s a tough job in a cutthroat business where newsmen and sportsguys alike address each other by their last names, perhaps fearing to expose the vulnerable underbellies of their given names to excessive familiarity.

Primeau does it herself: “Primeau here,” she barks as she answers the phone. One imagines Edmonton’s Crusading Lois Lane of the Airwaves rising above a huddle of testosterone and conservatism, able to out-curse, out-drink, and out-argue just about any man in the building, holding her own in an old boys’ network of jocular jocks and hard-boiled, old-school jo