And one more powerful reason to abolish the CBC.
Story here. ht: Small Dead Animals, where there's more, plus, of course, reaction.
Emphasis mine.
A few weeks ago, I wrote a column arguing that readers will miss the mainstream media when we're gone. Oh sure, bloggers have a lot of spicy opinions. But when it comes to investigating important stories, they don't hold a candle to big, deep-pocketed, old-fashioned newspaper writers and broadcast media outlets.
Imagine my embarrassment, then, when it turned out this week that the flagship newscast on the biggest, deep-pocketedest, old-fashionedest Canadian media outlet of them all -- the taxpayer-funded CBC--got suckered into reporting a story that the blogosphere chewed up, debunked and spit out two days earlier.
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This is more than just a tiny factual slip-up. This was a marquee segment on the CBC's crown jewel -- The National -- delivered by the network's Washington correspondent at a major political event. How is it that Macdonald would base his whole story on a political hoax that thousands of humble Web surfers like my friend had debunked a full two days earlier?
Putting aside the role of Macdonald -- who has a history of left-wing smears for which the CBC has later had to apologize -- how did no one at the CBC catch this? As taxpayers, doesn't our $1-billion buy us a fact-checker or two?
I'd suggest that the CBC isn't interested in reporting truth; so no surprise they don't use fact-checkers to ensure that sensational, negative smear stories about "right-wing" politicians and political parties are indeed founded on reality and not on falsehood. What do you expect when the CBC is full of ultra-far-left-wing militants hellbent on propagating Big Lies that conservatism is supposedly a bad, bad, bad thing? Not to mention that they swoon over folks like Barack Obama, who's apparently a communist...
Well, well, well... and the Left thinks that the mainstream media is trustworthy. Of course, they do, because the MSM, certainly obviously the CBC, is on their side!
