Tag / CBC
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CBC Ombudsman: Balance in Science Reporting
The complainant, Richard Reeleder, objected to an interview with an opponent of the herbicide Glyphosate. He thought he was presented as a scientific expert when he was not, and that his comments…
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Memo: Vassy Kapelos is the new host of CBC’s Power & Politics
Vassy Kapelos was Global News’ Ottawa bureau chief and host of The West Block. Continue Reading Memo: Vassy Kapelos is the new host of CBC’s Power & Politics
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CBC Ombudsman: Accuracy in headlines and photos
The complainant, Mike Fegelman, the Executive Director of HonestReporting Canada, made two requests for reviews. One concerned a headline dealing with the sentencing of an Israeli soldier and the other questioned the…
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CBC Ombudsman: Seeing is Believing
CBC Ottawa ran a story about a programme to match homeless people to rental housing. It documented a case where it went wrong, leaving the landlord with a trashed apartment. The story…
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CBC OMBUDSMAN: Reporting the Facts
The complainant, Diane Bederman, objected to a report by Derek Stoffel who was at a protest in Ramallah on the one-hundredth anniversary of the Balfour Declaration. She thought that by reporting the…
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CBC Ombudsman: The challenge of sizing up crowds
The complainant, Anthony Nolan, wrote to say that a report on an anti-white supremacy rally at Queen’s Park distorted the crowd size, and deliberately so, in his view. I agreed that reporting…
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CBC Ombudsman: Fixing facts on Facebook
The complainant, Jyothi Jayaraman, was one of 9 who objected to the explanation of the process of medically-assisted death. In the course of taking questions live on Facebook, the interviewee gave wrong…
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CBC Ombudsman: The Pit Bull Controversy
The complainant, April Fahr, is the Director of Education and Advocacy for the HugABull Advocacy & Rescue Society. She was concerned that a Fifth Estate episode on whether pit bulls should be…
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CBC Ombudsman: Following Fortress
The complainant, Jenni Byrne of Bayfield Strategy, Inc., wrote on behalf of her client, Fortress Developments. She stated that one of the reporters involved in ongoing coverage of Fortress was biased and…
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CBC OMBUDSMAN: Balance and Perspective
The complainant, Jackie Thipthorpe, objected to a story about visitors at a veterinary school open house. The research project featured involved a cow with a fistula which enabled participants to reach into…