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Originally Posted by Firebot
CTV doesn't deserve any kudos though they eventually arrived to the right resolution after the backlash.
CTV should have acted swiftly at the time the broadcast was revealed to be doctored and made a proper statement. Instead they tried to brush it under the carpet and claimed it to be an out of context misunderstanding and hid the video. It was a malicious act, and the blowback from that action and to claim it was a misunderstanding rather than to state an investigation is ongoing was worse then the incident.
In effect, had Poilievre not spoken out this strongly (or "cried" as some non-partisan progressive folks eloquently stated) to get it to the news likely those 2 would have stayed onboard and continued doctoring news coverage. It also took other media like National Post to call it out for what it is.
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/ter...poilievre-bias
So now that we have this literal fake news incident which only fuels the belief that media / journalists are narrative driven in their reporting, are we to believe this is a one time incident? The 2 staff members have not been identified, but they clearly had an agenda and used their positions to fabricate a narrative to Canadians and would have taken part in editing clips in the past. This one just happened to be caught as it was so blatant and got called out publicly. Why they would go to such lengths to create a new sentence out of 3 separate sentences to present a made up narrative to Canadians? How often have they done this in the past that this was actually something they thought they could do without repercussions?
Note the reactions from some other journalists, who don't seem to think that fabricating news and doctoring clips to push a narrative is a fireable offence. This leads to believe there is a systemic issue within the industry that journalists have steered away from principles to report news as is and instead have focused on driving narratives where selective reporting and distorting the truth is acceptable as long as the narrative is just.
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Oh good lord. I’m not a big fan of CTV for reasons I won’t get into but your expectations are a little bit much here. They admitted to the error right away, released a statement saying is was their fault and even fired people over it. All within what, 2 days?
Your insinuation that they have people actively working to doctor videos to push a narrative is bordering on conspiracy theory level nonsense. “How often have they done this in the past?” Well how many times have the CPC or any other party called them out on it? Your victimization of Poilievre here comes off the same as that leave Brittany alone video from years ago.
Of course CTV haven’t named the people who got fired at this stage, there’s all sorts of potential liability on their end because they may or may not actually have just cause to terminate these employees and probably just packaged them out to get rid of them. In which case there would almost certainly be an NDA involved. Start living in reality.
The real irony here is that despite having no real inside information regarding their investigation and what those employees said to defend their actions you’re suggesting that CTV should be publicly shaming them because you want them to look bad in the media.