Wed May 24, 2023 – 2:43 pm EDT
(Campaign Life Coalition) — Canadians expect that the “facts” printed in newspapers are true facts.
Not lies.
Not spin, presented to distort the reality of a situation in order to bias readers towards a particular ideological viewpoint.
The Canadian people don’t want their newspapers to knowingly print lies. Yet, that’s exactly what the National Post, one of Canada’s largest and most trusted newspapers, did on May 11th.
During the March For Life rally on Parliament Hill, the National Post’s Catherine Lévesque approached me for an interview. I was right in front of the speaker’s stage, off to the side a bit. Keep in mind that to make her way to the front of the stage, Lévesque had to have walked through the human mass, which our study of a time-lapsed video of the event put at more than 5,000 people.
When I read her National Post column the next day, I was irritated to find that Lévesque had misreported attendance as being mere “hundreds of people.” From the National Post article:
[Conservative MP Cathay] Wagantall did not speak at the March for Life event, something she has done many
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