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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
I'd have to go back and look tonight. There was a lawsuit where CBC went after a fashion designer and fabricated a story about him and destroyed the guys life with false allegations. They turned out to be wrong and it ended up in court.
There was the Pierre Sormany scandal that lead to his early retirement when he posted false statements in an organizaed crime investigation.
Those are two off the top of my head.
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Thanks, but those are the types of allegations that any news agency of any stripe could face. Those aren't as a result of dogma?
I can think of a number of times where poster-boy Ezra Levant has said things that are cringe-worthy though. Here is the kind of garbage they're trying to pass off as news and the resulting Canadian Broadcasting Standards admonishment:
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/06...n_1594452.html
I won't lie: when I watched the clip last December of him saying that, I laughed. It was so shockingly ridiculous that it makes me laugh even today! But its not news.