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    CBC Ombudsman: Controversy vs. Controversial

    President of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms and spokesperson for a Christian school in Alberta, thought coverage of a dispute between the local school board and his school was biased. Continue Reading CBC Ombudsman: Controversy vs. Controversial

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    Globe and Mail Public Editor: ‘Alt-right’ softens the vileness of a racist movement

    An important reminder after the word appeared in the headline of a Globe column: groups of white supremacists must be called what they are. Continue Reading Globe and Mail Public Editor: ‘Alt-right’ softens the vileness of a racist movement

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    CBC Ombudsman: Balancing a live phone-in. It’s not so simple.

    The complainant asked if there was censorship at work when he was told there were already Chris Alexander supporters on line when he called the Ontario Noon phone-in. Continue Reading CBC Ombudsman: Balancing a live phone-in. It’s not so simple.

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    CBC Ombudsman: Pictures vs. Words

    The complainant had concerns about a bar graph in an article explaining how to follow election results on the CBC news site on B.C. election day. Continue Reading CBC Ombudsman: Pictures vs. Words

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    CBC Ombudsman: Covering Syria

    The complainant thought the Power & Politics treatment of events in Syria was too one-sided. Continue Reading CBC Ombudsman: Covering Syria

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    CBC Ombudsman: Fair Edits – What gets published has to reflect what happened

    The complainant was present in the House of Commons 35 years ago when a female MP got up to ask a question about violence against women. Continue Reading CBC Ombudsman: Fair Edits – What gets published has to reflect what happened

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    CBC Ombudsman: The “f” word — A threshold for its use in news

    By Esther Enkin, CBC Ombudsman The complainant, Curtis Hopkins, thought swearing on an online video of an eyewitness recording of a bus billowing smoke was in violation of policy. The video was a powerful account of a breaking news story, although the swearing was not critical to the understanding of the story. Since the crew…

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    Globe and Mail Public Editor: Does an idiom have a ‘best before’ date?

    By Sylvia Stead for the Globe and Mail Our language doesn’t stay still. It adapts to a changing world, gains new terms, drops old ones and changes course when a term or phrase is widely acknowledged as hurtful and derogatory. One of those phrases appeared in the big headline on the front page of the…
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    Globe and Mail Public Editor: Overuse of term ‘populism’ can be misleading

    By Sylvia Stead, Globe and Mail Public Editor Here’s a word that has surged in popularity in the last year. It has been used to describe Donald Trump’s ascendancy, the majority vote on Brexit and the second-place showing of Marine Le Pen in this month’s French presidential election. I’ve seen business articles in The Globe…
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    Toronto Star Public Editor: Reader trust and responsible reporting with anonymous sources

    By Kathy English, Toronto Star Public Editor An important reader question about trust in the Star: “I am curious what steps a journalist might take to verify what they are told by a confidential source. I can understand the need for confidential sources in the media, but, as a reader I generally put a little less faith…
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