Juno News - June 20, 2022


CBC stands by their false reporting of the convoy

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Gifts Martin Joseph Engelhardt Brody Phelan Harrison Andrew
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3 minutes

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574

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28


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In the wake of the Black Friday protests, the CBC has been accused of lying about the amount of foreign donations to the protest convoy, but they say they stand by their reporting on the matter. What's the problem with this?

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00:00:00.000 Yeah. So, I mean, let's just focus on this very easily debunked claim for a moment that we saw,
00:00:06.120 and if we can throw it up on the screen again there, the CBC editorial, no, CBC News did not
00:00:11.160 retract its stories on convoy protest donations. So they say they stand by it. They say that,
00:00:16.600 oh, it's misinformation that CBC walked back certain bits of coverage. They say, especially
00:00:22.780 it's referring to stories about foreign donations to the convoy protests that were being made by
00:00:28.340 GoFundMe and Gifts and Go, even though we've had a number of financial experts and GoFundMe people
00:00:33.300 and Gifts and Go people that have testified before that parliamentary committee and others to say,
00:00:38.760 no, no, no, it was the vast majority was Canadian. And there was also, though, this report in Black
00:00:45.760 Locks Reporter, CBC Pulls False Convoy Story, and specifically this section on February 10th in a
00:00:53.640 report about the protest convoy, CBC radios, the world this hour, incorrectly said GoFundMe ended
00:01:01.400 a fundraiser for the protesters over questionable donations to the group. No explanation was given.
00:01:07.260 And there have been other examples as well where CBC has corrected this and they've changed this,
00:01:13.080 they've made amendments to it, and they're still claiming, no, no, no, we haven't, just because we
00:01:17.240 haven't hit the delete button on the story, we haven't admitted that we got the facts fundamentally
00:01:22.020 wrong. And one of them in particular, that I think is interesting to point out here, and CBC stood by
00:01:28.700 this one and shouldn't have, was it's reporting on that guy, Martin Joseph Engelhardt, who was this
00:01:33.580 grifter that said that his life savings were drained because of the convoy, when in actuality,
00:01:38.940 he was the one cashing out on it, and he was making money. And then when he went to the media,
00:01:43.240 people sent him more money. And we presented CBC with hard and fast evidence that what they reported
00:01:50.000 was wrong. And they said, no, no, no, we stand by it. So CBC does have a track record. I mean,
00:01:55.840 they did make a lot of changes here, Harrison, but they also have a track record of doubling down
00:01:59.980 when they really shouldn't.
00:02:02.300 Well, yeah. And just to go back, Andrew, to the statement by Brody Phelan, the editor-in-chief
00:02:07.300 of CBC News. I mean, he can, you can, you can not issue a retraction and the story can still be
00:02:12.600 false. CBC even admitted to Black Locks that their radio program detailing these accusations
00:02:18.340 of foreign donations and dangerous donations from around the world was false. So they said it was false.
00:02:25.000 And you can, you don't have to release a right of retraction for the story to be actually false.
00:02:29.240 And I think they're trying to play word games here and say, no, well, we stand by reporting.
00:02:33.240 We didn't retract our story. Well, fair enough. But you did admit to Black Locks that your radio
00:02:37.960 program parroting the exact same lines that you had, that they had been talking about throughout
00:02:42.860 the convoy protest to give the government some ammunition to basically attack these protesters.
00:02:48.960 Well, they said it was false. So it's just one of those, one of those interesting,
00:02:53.700 interesting word games by the CBC to say that, no, we're standing by our journalism. We didn't
00:02:58.000 retract anything. But then in March, actually, they admitted that what they wrote was false.