Posts Tagged ‘journalistic integrity’
CBC vs Information Commissoner of Canada
CBC funding to be cut in next federal budget
November 1 and 2, 2011 - Federal Heritage Minister James Moore says the CBC’s funding will be cut in the next federal budget as part of a government wide deficit elimination plan.
We’ve gone a long way to making the CBC more accountable, smaller … their funding is today smaller than when I became minister.
- James Moore
The CBC will be part of our plan to balance the budget. The CBC’s budget next year will be smaller than it is this year.
- James Moore
CBC, Liberals claim secret links between Conservative Party and NRA
CPAC defends its journalistic integrity
The Canadian Public Affairs Channel (CPAC) defended its journalistic integrity over questions surrounding a recent campaign profile of Liberal MP Garth Turner.
CPAC responded to revelations posted on the Angry in the Great White North political blog that a man presented by CPAC as a random voter was in fact Michael Shaye, the son of Turner’s campaign manager Esther Shaye.
Do the folks at CPAC know that Garth Turner dragged their camera crew to the home of the son of his constituency office manager for a visit to a “typical” constituent?
- Steve Janke (Angry in the Great White North)
The Turner campaign insisted they informed CPAC of Mr. Shaye’s identity, and they say CPAC had no objections to presenting him as a random voter.
CPAC denies the accusation and says they only learned Mr. Shaye’s relationship to the Turner campaign when the details were revealed in the blogosphere.
Update, October 3, 2009 – Garth Turner appeared on Canada AM and was asked a question from a Turner campaign worker planted in the audience. The person was presented as an average Canadian but is in fact Dan Baril, Garth Turner’s pollster.
