The Globe and Mail reports in its Tuesday edition that in the aftermath of last year's dismissal of CTV anchor Lisa LaFlamme, Bell Media president Wade Oosterman told news managers he wanted a more "balanced perspective" in news coverage and suggested they provide a "positive spin" on stories about parent company Bell Canada Enterprises. The Globe's Robert Fife writes that in an audio recording of an Aug. 24 meeting, Mr. Oosterman, who is also vice-chair of BCE, said he was intent on trying to inject more balance into CTV news programming to attract more "eyeballs" and prevent budget cuts because of declining audiences. "I will say that I do not find us having a balanced perspective," Mr. Oosterman said in the recording obtained by The Globe. "I do find that we -- I don't want to say purposely -- but ignorantly lose a lot of eyeballs because we don't force the conflict between two points of view." He did not define what perspective he felt was missing from CTV news coverage, but two former news managers said Mr. Oosterman had expressed criticism of Ms. LaFlamme's newscast as too favourable to the federal Liberals. Mr. Oosterman said CTV journalists should be helpful to Bell Canada in its reporting whenever possible.