Wed Oct 11, 2023 – 10:53 pm EDT
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) – The watchdog for Canada’s government-funded Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) warned the network it must stop acting as a political fact-checker after a report it published that negatively criticized the Freedom Convoy and so-called “far right” media received a massive amount of backlash.
CBC ombudsman Jack Nagler said in a recent notice titled Theory or Conspiracy Theory?, as per Blacklock’s Reporter, the “programmers at CBC” have a “great responsibility when they choose to use terms such as ‘misinformation’ and ‘disinformation’ in their stories.”
He also noted how the network needs to rethink news coverage that criticizes those who call out the current federal government cabinet.
As such, network programmers, when saying what is or is not “misinformation” and “disinformation” in their news stories, Nagler said, had better get it “right” because if it turns “out down the road the information proved to be correct they can do great damage to their reputation.”
Nagler’s warning to the CBC follows an attempt in 2021 by the broadcaster to act in effect as a political truth checker.
In his most recent warning, Nagler said the network needs to rethink
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