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Entire media industry hurt by CTV hit job on Poilievre
The network has fired two people and apologized, but damage is done
Bell Media fired two members of their team Thursday, as a journalist I take no joy in the job losses, but I also understand why it had to happen.
The outright attack on Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre was beyond anything that should be defended by anyone in the media industry.
Poilievre walked out to speak to the media on Monday to explain why he felt the government needed to be defeated. Sadly, CTV National News came up with their own reason that the Conservatives wanted to defeat the government.
In reality, Poilievre said that he wanted to defeat the Trudeau government on the carbon tax. Yet the report on CTV National News portrayed this as Poilievre opposing dental care for seniors.
This wasn’t based on anything that Poilievre had said but rather on claims by the Liberals.
In the story that aired from CTV, Poilievre is heard saying, “That’s why we need to put forward a motion.”
The problem isn’t just the context that CTV News placed the clip but also the fact that Poilievre never said those words in that order. To get that clip, CTV had to take two words from near the start of what Poilievre had said, two words from the end of his statement, and then the rest from the middle.
In essence, CTV created a Frankenstein sentence by taking different parts of what Poilievre had said and putting them in a different order.
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