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Originally Posted by TheIronMaiden
I would be more outraged by CTV misrepresenting and editing clips if there weren't thousands of right wing truth seekers * rebel media* spamming the same stuff for Trudeau over social media the last 9 years.
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If anything this is why a mainstream media outlet like CTV must take these events seriously.
I don't things are as nefarious as Firebot, I think the first release was just a kneejerk reaction to an obvious problem. They needed to acknowledge the issue immediately, but couldn't go much further until they had investigated, and then after they did that they released the second one.
I think it was more of a timing issue of working out the problem than needing to deal with outrage. They could have worded that first release better, but I can see where they needed to hedge their wording initially. I don't really see this as a coverup and finally relent under public pressure situation as much as a limit liability by saying little until more is known.
But something seriously failed in the editorial and vetting process that let that go live. And a mistake like this makes it so much easier to push them down to a level of Rebel News - and the people who eat that up that garbage as a "news source" won't even see the irony of complaining about CTV doing it.