This is wild. Trudeau won’t credential journalists he doesn’t like, and has his security treat a reporter like a criminal.— Candice Malcolm (@CandiceMalcolm) May 28, 2020
Imagine Trump doing this? This reporter would be named Time Magazine Person of the Year and given a Pulitzer. In Canada, other journos don’t bat an eyelid. https://t.co/GViIkBp8oz
A former RCMP officer weighs in.
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True North, the think tank and online media organization I run, looked at the questions being asked of Trudeau and found that the CBC dominated these press conferences, being allowed to ask twice as many questions as any other outlet.
CBC journalists were granted 21% of the questions asked between March 13 and April 30. Meanwhile, independent online outlets like True North, Rebel News and Blacklock’s Reporter were blocked from asking a single question.
In a similar study, Blacklock’s found that of the 708 questions put to the Prime Minister, CBC asked 167 of them. CTV asked 90 questions, Global News asked 75, the Toronto Star asked 29, the National Post had 14 and the Sun papers only got 4 questions.
