Thu Oct 13, 2022 – 5:10 pm EDT
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) – The Ombudsman for Canada’s state-run Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) said he was “disappointed” the outlet ran a story that falsely claimed Russia was behind the Freedom Convoy protests, adding it should have never happened.
CBC’s Ombudsman Jack Nagler wrote as stated by Blacklock’s Reporter that there was no “concrete evidence,” in the station’s story earlier in the year insinuating Russian involvement in the protests.
Nagler added that the story should have “been caught before broadcast” and that he was “disappointed it took others to point out to CBC the question was ‘off.’”
According to Nagler, he was also not happy with the fact “programmers were not more sensitive in advance to the perils of speculation on subjects such as the convoy or Russian interference in Canadian affairs.”
The CBC had to retract a claim made on a January 28 broadcast of its Power & Politics program with Nil Koksal that falsely asserted Russia was behind the Freedom Convoy.
The station had received multiple complaints over the story, including one that stated it was an “effort by the CBC to misrepresent the protest.”
In the interview, Koksal
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