Juno News - June 05, 2026


CBC demands blind trust from viewers in bizarre Instagram video


Episode Stats


Length

1 minute

Words per minute

189.96

Word count

372

Sentence count

21


Summary

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The CBC has been accused of lying to its viewers about what is real and what is fake, and how they got it wrong. They have been criticized for their lack of fact-checking, and for their use of fake footage and images in their reporting.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 You will never ever have to worry about what is real and what is fake if it comes from the CBC,
00:00:05.600 according to their General Manager and Editor-in-Chief Brody Fenlon.
00:00:09.380 Let's take a look at this bizarre Instagram video they posted urging blind trust from their viewers.
00:00:15.020 Never ever have to wonder what is real or what is fake if it comes from CBC News.
00:00:21.000 Hi, I'm Brody Fenlon, General Manager and Editor-in-Chief of CBC News.
00:00:25.000 At CBC, our journalism is fact-checked. It's verified. We don't put anything out into the world unless we know it to be true, or if we haven't verified it, then we'll tell you that.
00:00:35.860 Our journalism is produced by humans who have to meet a really high bar in terms of standards. We're accountable for our journalism.
00:00:43.700 And in the rare cases where we get something wrong, we'll own it. We'll tell you what we got wrong and how we fixed it.
00:00:49.600 And you will never, ever have to wonder what is real or what is fake if it comes from CBC News.
00:00:56.200 That's the invitation. Choose news, not noise.
00:00:59.860 Well, many Canadians laughed out loud and disagreed with this clip as they provided examples of when they felt the CBC misled them through their reporting.
00:01:07.800 Let's take a look at a few.
00:01:09.000 The first example is when the CBC reported that they uncovered confirmation of 215 children buried at the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School.
00:01:18.680 but to date no bodies have been found at the site and full excavations haven't taken place despite
00:01:25.240 millions of dollars in funding for the first nation to do so and this one always gets me
00:01:30.080 another critic pointed to one of CBC's now deleted videos of what appeared to be a man in an ICU bed
00:01:36.160 hooked up to a ventilator supposedly due to the COVID-19 crisis but look closely the CBC had to
00:01:42.480 apologize for using fake patients and airing the image outside of the context of training facilities
00:01:48.560 These are just two examples of many. If you'd like to read more, you can visit
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