Juno News - April 11, 2022


Journalism advocacy group awards journalist for fake report


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1 minute

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297

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This is one of the most mind-boggling stories I've ever heard of journalism, and it's not even close to being the end of it. The Canadian government funded, far-left media outlet, the Narwhal, published a fake piece that was completely debunked by the RCPP and the Canadian Association of Journalist, and yet they still get awards for it.

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00:00:00.000 and and so not only did the narwhal which is a government-funded news organization far left
00:00:05.600 focused on environmental uh catastrophe uh climate alarmism all those kind of themes
00:00:12.080 um so so they wrote a piece that was fake the canadian association of journalists uh applauded
00:00:18.000 them and put out a statement condemning the police in it and then it gets even worse harrison because
00:00:23.360 now the canadian journalism foundation is is offering them an award they gave them and they
00:00:29.760 nominated them for an excellence award for this same piece that has been refuted and debunked by
00:00:37.040 the rcmp and by a government uh report this shows how wildly out of touch these people are like they
00:00:43.920 can report something that didn't happen that is totally made up pretend that there was police
00:00:47.440 brutality involved pretend that they were illegally arrested and not only are they allowed to publish
00:00:52.400 it with no consequence when it turns out to be fake they actually get awards they're awarding
00:00:57.360 giving themselves awards and patting themselves on the back this is this is one of the most uh
00:01:02.560 remarkable stories i've seen in a while harrison well when i first read this i have to admit i thought
00:01:07.440 this was a troll i thought it was i thought it was them trolling uh the rcmp and basically everyone else
00:01:14.160 because of just how ridiculous it is to award themselves an excellency in journalism award for
00:01:20.320 uh basically a story uh in which the journalist who inserts herself as an activist into the story
00:01:27.280 makes it all about her perspective uh and of course she makes it out to seem like she's this hero
00:01:32.880 like she's this uh very brave um you know activist who's fighting back against the rcmp