For groups complaining about bad faith journalism like that garbage Yoho posted and the Baired opinion piece they sure like to engage in bad faith journalism.
No one has been exonerated.
The other thing in this is no one discusses what the level of certainty there needs to be to report this.
I’d argue (provided the source is staffers in the premiers office or in the crown) that even if these statements prove to be false it is in the public interest to report them if the reporters met their internal requirements.
I do agree that the article originally was unclear on the nature of the sourcing but if essentially if this story is multiple staffers lied to the cbc about emails to the crown then that is news.
I think the only way the CBC would be in the wrong would be if this is fabricated or the sources are external to the crown and internally. If these sources exist and are lying Smith should be concerned and wanting to find the truth.
I’m interested to here Jesse Browns opinion on this one.
Original article from the way back machine. This link is from the 20th.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230120...utts-1.6719743