Juno News - CBC stands by their false reporting of the convoy

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.

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