CTV Cancelled a Fact-Checking Segment in Response to Political Pressure From Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives
CTV Cancelled a Fact-Checking Segment in Response to Political Pressure From Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives
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One day after Skamski’s tweet, a CTV Your Morning producer contacted Gilmore and notified her that her next planned fact-checking segment was being bumped due to a scheduling conflict with a Canadian premier.
A week later, on March 31, CTV Your Morning Executive Producer Jennifer MacLean contacted Gilmore and told her a decision had been made to “call down the segment” altogether.
In other words CTV’s handlers weighed in on the situation.
This is what they want to do to the CBC. Money talks when dealing with private news agencies. CBC has been less contaminated.
Elbows up.
Spineless "news"
