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Originally Posted by Slava
I don't know, but they gave good reasoning? There were a lot of seats that were within a hundred votes. They said that about fifty times it seemed.
Plus, if that is the one glaring example then I guess I would say "big deal" or "who cares". It has no impact on the election or issues. Being totally unbiased I would say that the decimation of the Bloc and rise of the NDP were bigger stories anyway...or at least more unexpected. I think that there were a lot of story lines that night (with every single party making history one way or another) so it's pretty hard to nitpick over how many times they covered each one.
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The other channels were getting fed the exact same numbers, and were confident enough to call it. I'll even give CBC credit for being the first to predict a majority based on the numbers coming in (as far as I could tell flipping channels). However, though CBC had predicted it, they stalled on calling it until long after Global and CTV.
That's not one glaring example though, it's just another sign of the systematic bias underlying the CBC. You might as well pretend they're not biased towards the Maple Leafs while you're at it.