I spoke to @sonjfatah.bsky.social, associate chair of TMU's journalism school, who said this illustrates the threat political pressure campaigns pose to press freedoms in Canada:
“It’s a sacrifice of a journalist ...They don’t want to have to deal with the reaction from the trolls.”
“It’s a sacrifice of a journalist ...They don’t want to have to deal with the reaction from the trolls.”
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PressProgress
NEW: CTV cancelled a fact-checking segment in response to political pressure from Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives
An audio recording obtained by PressProgress shows CTV cancelled an ‘election misinformation’ segment with journalist Rachel Gilmore after online backlash from conservatives
An audio recording obtained by PressProgress shows CTV cancelled an ‘election misinformation’ segment with journalist Rachel Gilmore after online backlash from conservatives
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& people let CTV know what they think about them bending the knee & selling out democracy to far right extremist disinformation spreaders conservatives defaming her for fact checking them
#Cdnpoli
Mundane bs stories written for online hits generate eyes on the site - weak assignment editors then push said bs to radio,TV & print reporters for lede stories hoping for ad revenue & ratings
Not the same audience! Clicks not same demographics.
Let them fucking have it!
What kind of piss-in-your-pants strategy to a MISINFORMATION piece is this, you fucking cowardly asshats?
Weaklings.
#ctv you are craven. #boycottctv
Im so sorry. This is abhorrent.
Like that time when Mercedes Stephenson was asking questions at the 2021 debate, while her husband and her were recently separated but he was running O'Toole's campaign!