CBC has admitted that its Journalistic Standards and Practices (JSP) have been breached.
The CBC ombudsman said the question in an interview, which alluded to Russian collusion with the trucker protests, was out of context, and the ideas and language surrounding the question were too bold. He said there should have been evidence backing the claim and advised CBC programmers to be “aware of the impact of [their] work.”
CBC released correspondence regarding complaints made to the ombudsman by James Sali on Oct. 6.
During an interview on Power and Politics in January, just before the protests reached Ottawa, the host asked Minister of Public Safety Marco Mendicino: “We’ve heard references to potential outside actors. Who could these outside actors be? Where might they be from?”…