CBC, CTV, etc are bound by journalistic rules requiring them to retract when they make an error. I've never yet seen Rebel make a retraction. Have you?
— Loralee Hutton (@lahara) May 4, 2022
Loralee doesn't like Rebel Media. Ezra isn't everybody's shtick: I've known him personally for over two decades and never did really care for him, and I'm not afraid to make fun of him for being a Jew. Of course, he did also borrow one of my jokes (and forgot to credit me, as tends to happen), so it's a wash really.
However, Loralee then makes the mistake of claiming CBC and CTV retract and apologize for errors. This is, without a doubt, completely retarded.
Unlike cowardly liars at CBC and CTV which did ignorant hit pieces on last February's Freedom Convoy without setting foot on the ground, Rebel was to use an old war journalism phrase "embedded" since Surrey. As a result, they didn't have to apologize for or retract fake news stories, like claiming a pro-Nazi was one of the convoy protesters, that the convoy was a Russian psyop campaign, that the Freedom Convoy tried to burn down an apartment building, or that no guns were involved in rounding up the protesters.
The CBC did "clarify that they meant experts probably would agree that Russians would totally do this even if they didn't" but an actual retraction? Not so much. CTV pivoted to "hey the apartment fire had nothing to do with the convoy" sure enough, but only The Globe and Mail wiped their "the convoy did it" original story. CBC changed the text but never retracted their original insinuations.
So where do these mythical "retractions" come from? Last week we saw in the USA an example of why Loralee is disingenuous claiming she's seen retractions from mainstream media.
My final concern, and frustration, was the lack of transparency by media organizations in responding to my questions. I reached out to more than sixty journalists; only about half responded.
Even after every single media claim about God-Emperor Donald J. Trump and the Russian government has completely and utterly debunked, the press refuses to publicly retract or apologize for their false reporting.
Under that sort of landscape, what motivation does the far more centralized and subsidized Canadina media have to ever do the same?
