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Tag: Fake news
Journalism takes another hit in wake of Mueller, Covington fiascos
Reading Time: 3 minutes The damage done to public trust in journalism by not following basic rules of journalism is, at this stage, incalculable
Can we restore public trust in journalism?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Too many journalists tolerate peers who, through undisciplined abandonment of standards, undermine their craft’s credibility
Reckless rhetoric is no way to debate public policy
Reading Time: 3 minutes The basic presumption of democracy requires us to try to understand one another rather than calling opponents murderers
Has trust in journalists started to rebound from rock bottom?
Reading Time: 5 minutes A new survey says people are looking at journalism with new respect in these troubled times
Did Canada expel Russian diplomats for a false reason?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland plays fast and loose with the facts if she believes her grandfather wasn’t a Nazi collaborator
Pipeline opposition largely funded by rich Americans
Reading Time: 3 minutes To maintain secrecy, large U.S. environmental foundations simply “purchased” the co-operation of Canadian organizations to stop Alberta oil from reaching international markets
Stepping beyond stereotypes to right wrongs
Reading Time: 3 minutes The key is to focus on acceptable and unacceptable actions, not the ethnicity or gender of the actor
The Mueller indictments: laughing all the way to the Kremlin
Reading Time: 5 minutes The entire episode feels increasingly like a Russian intelligence operation designed to create political turmoil in the U.S. and exacerbate social tensions
The fake news controversy isn’t really new
Reading Time: 3 minutes News reporting has always been susceptible to allegations of spin and slant, cherry-picking and calculation