CTV fires two journalists for manipulating clips of Pierre Poilievre

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CTV fires two journalists for manipulating clips of Pierre Poilievre​

CTV News has terminated two journalists following an internal investigation that revealed they manipulated footage of Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, falsely portraying his comments during a media scrum.

An official statement from CTV News was released Thursday evening confirming that an investigation found that two members of the CTV News team were responsible for altering a video clip and manipulating it for a story.

“Their actions violate our editorial standards and are unacceptable. Those individuals are no longer members of the CTV News team,” reads the statement.

CTV News added that its duty is to provide independent, accurate, fair, and balanced coverage.

“We will continue our work to earn the trust of the millions of Canadians who turn to CTV News each and every day,” concluded the statement.

The controversy erupted after CTV broadcasted an edited clip on Sunday that appeared to show Poilievre advocating for a motion to defeat the Liberal government’s dental care program. However, the original footage revealed that Poilievre was discussing the carbon tax, not dental care.

During the Sunday night broadcast, CTV News anchor Christina Tenaglia reported, “Close to 650,000 Canadians have already received care. While the continuation of the plan appears safe for now, the events of the last week have raised new questions over the plan’s future,” leading into the altered clip.

The segment then showed Poilievre allegedly saying, “That’s why we need to put forward a motion.” However, he never said that.

The clip was manipulated by removing the first part of Poilievre’s statement, in which he said, “We need a carbon tax so Canadians can vote to axe the tax, build the homes, fix the budget, and stop the crime with a common-sense Conservative government.” The broadcast then spliced this with his comment, “That’s why it’s time to put forward a motion for a carbon tax election.”

Following a letter from Poilievre’s media relations director, Sebastian Skamski, CTV issued a correction.

“Last night, in a report on this broadcast, we presented a comment by the Official Opposition leader Pierre Poilievre that was taken out of context. It left viewers with the impression the Conservative non-confidence motion was to defeat the Liberals’ dental care program,” the network said on Monday. “In fact, the Conservatives have made it clear the motion is based on a long list of issues with the Liberal government, including the carbon tax.”

CTV News’ post to X on Monday apologizing received overwhelmingly negative feedback. Conversely, the update on the firing had far more likes than comments, with many of the comments noting surprise at accountability in legacy media. However, there were many comments suggesting that CTV News used these two journalists as scapegoats.

The apology followed various Conservative MPs and pundits expressing outrage at CTV, with some calling it “interference” or accusing CTV of pushing propaganda on Canadians or spreading disinformation to please the Prime Minister who subsidizes them

Thursday’s statement reiterated the news network’s regret.

“We sincerely and unreservedly apologize for the manner this report went to air and the false impression it created,” reads the statement.

The two journalists who took the fall remain unknown.

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[Ron in Regina]

The two journalists who took the fall remain unknown.

They had no editors? Producers? Etc…

An official statement from CTV News was released Thursday evening confirming that an investigation found that two members of the CTV News team were responsible for altering a video clip and manipulating it for a story.

That they released onto Twitter-X? I wonder if they’re going to release this onto something like…oh…CTV?

CTV News added that its duty is to provide independent, accurate, fair, and balanced coverage.

With zero oversight?

CTV News’ post to X on Monday apologizing received overwhelmingly negative feedback.

To Twitter-X again as opposed to something like…oh…CTV? How much was Twitter or X bailed out by the Trudeau gov’t? I’m guessing somewhere around zero dollars?

During the Sunday night broadcast, CTV News anchor Christina Tenaglia reported, “Close to 650,000 Canadians have already received care. While the continuation of the plan appears safe for now, the events of the last week have raised new questions over the plan’s future,” leading into the altered clip.

I wonder if the news anchor Christina Tanaglia was one of these two journalists (?) or female anchors aren’t disposable until they get gray hair?

 

[Hoof Hearted]

Pierre Poilievre

Smarmy- revealing or marked by a smug, ingratiating, or false earnestness. a tone of smarmy self-satisfaction New Yorker. 2. : of low sleazy taste or quality.

 

[Ron in Regina]

“Their actions violate our editorial standards and are unacceptable. Those individuals are no longer members of the CTV News team,” reads the statement.

Wait…what? Those individuals are no longer members of the CTV news team. Does that mean they’re actually fired or terminated (?) or that they’re no longer part of the CTV News team?

Are there other positions at CTV that aren’t part of the news team…that are still with CTV? I don’t see anywhere in the CTV statement that anybody was “fired” or “terminated” or “let go” or whatever, just not on the CTV news team any longer?

CTV News has terminated two journalists…

Terminated from what? Employment or the news team? Is that why…

The two journalists who “took the fall” remain unknown.

CTV News says it has parted ways with two staff members who manipulated a clip of Pierre Poilievre — National Post

Poilievre’s words had been edited to make it appear that he said a sentence he never uttered

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Yep, on “X”, so out of curiosity I search for the story on CTV & results are:

Huh…

 

[Ron in Regina]

I tried YouTube for: “CTV News’ Omar Sachedina had previously aired a statement apologizing to Poilievre” & the closest I can come is this:

When will Canadians head to the polls? Omar Sachedina breaks it down.

#justintrudeau #pierrepoilievre #jagmeetsingh #cdnpoli #politics #election #pm Subscribe to CTV News to watch more videos: https://www.youtube.com/ctvnewsCon...

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So I tried,

Sebastian Skamski, CTV issued a correction.

…& here’s the first thing that pops up:

MPs debating second Conservative motion of non-confidence in PM Trudeau

Members of Parliament are debating the second Conservative motion of non-confidence in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government of the week.One day after C...

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So I switched to google & finally get a hit:

This week, CTV News’ Omar Sachedina aired a statement apologizing to Pierre Poilievre and the Conservative party: “Last night, in a report on this broadcast, we presented a comment by the official opposition leader Pierre Poilievre that was taken out of context. It left viewers with the impression the conservative non-confidence motion was to defeat the Liberals dental care program. In fact, the Conservatives have made it clear the motion is based on a long list of issues with the Liberal government including the carbon tax. A misunderstanding during the editing process resulted in this misrepresentation. We unreservedly apologize to Mr. Poilievre and the Conservative party of Canada. We regret this report went to air in the manner it did.” The same apology made its way through X in a tweet.

Presented a comment? Taken out of context? A misunderstanding during the editing process? CTV’s communications office no doubt spent hours frantically working on that one.

Terry Newman: CTV delivers another shameful example of anti-Poilievre bias

Half-hearted apologies aren't likely to make this go away

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From the CBC:

"Those individuals are no longer members of the CTV News team," it said.

CTV has dropped two members of its news team after an altered clip of Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre went to air in a recent national news report, according to a statement from the network posted to social media.

I’m really doubtful anyone was fired or terminated…

Spokespeople for Bell, which owns CTV and CTV News, have not responded to multiple requests for comment from CBC News over the last three days.

CTV says staffers who altered Poilievre clip 'no longer' work for its news team — CBC News

CTV has dropped two members of its news team after an altered clip of Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre went to air in a recent national news report, according to a statement from the network posted to social media.

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[Ron in Regina]

This week, Liberal strategist Sarbjit Kaur declared herself aghast that two people actually got fired, dismissing the admitted manipulation as no big deal. “When media are caving to angry partisan mobs … we’re in big trouble.”

Immigration Minister Marc Miller had earlier waved the controversy away as “another Pierre Poilievre hissy fit against the media.”

“So Mr. Freedom … orders his MPs not to talk to news orgs that won’t parrot Conservative talking points,” sneered Taleeb Noormohamed, parliamentary secretary to Heritage Minister Pascal St-Onge, who claims to cherish and wish to support good-quality journalism in Canada.

And here’s St-Onge herself, putting that misapprehension to bed: “(Poilievre’s) hidden agenda: to not have journalists ask him difficult questions.”

To my astonishment, some journalists, former and even current, took against CTV’s actions or partially defended its reporting. Adam Vaughan, a former City TV journalist and Liberal MP, added a typically unique twist to the affair: “Re-arranging and deliberately fabricating a quote is wrong,” he wrote on X, “but … would dental care survive a non-confidence vote?”

“Bad journalism,” Vaughan conceded, “but is it inaccurate?”

Then there was the Toronto Star’s Susan Delacourt. “I think this is CTV saying they fired the people who offended a politician,” she ventured. Her Friday column cited “what (Poilievre) saw as a ‘malicious’ editing job on some of his recent remarks, implying he was trying to bring down the government over dental care instead of the carbon levy” — without even mentioning CTV’s admission of wrongdoing.

Dismal.

One thing we can definitely take away from all this: Liberals do not, in fact, actually care about good journalism — or at least they don’t care about it enough not to support bad journalism when they think it helps them, which is a distinction without a difference.

And having said we’ve arrived at the worst of all worlds, all this presents an obvious chance for things to get much worse indeed. The Liberal government provides robust taxpayer subsidies to the media — some more directly, as with newspaper publishers like Postmedia (which owns National Post), and some of it more indirectly to broadcasters like CTV, through program funding, licences, and market protection.

A bare minimum for supporting those subsidies is that your government shouldn’t play favourites with the media according to ideological leanings. (Or at least you should cloak such decisions in the language of not meeting “journalistic standards.”) And yet, Noorhamed in particular — who, remember, is parliamentary secretary to the minister responsible for these handouts — is always eager to criticize Postmedia for criticizing the Liberal government … because Postmedia collects government subsidy.

“Your paper wouldn’t be in business were it not for the subsidies that the government that you hate put in place — the same subsidies your Trump-adjacent foreign hedge fund owners gladly take to pay your salary,” Noormohamed chided National Post columnist Terry Newman earlier this month — not for the first time.

Noorhamed and other Liberals often sound like they absolutely hate their own media-subsidy programs, precisely because they contribute to what they consider “bad” journalism — i.e., journalism that criticizes them, focuses on their idea of “the wrong things,” spreads their idea of “misinformation.” It’s not hard to imagine the Liberals altering the “standards” for subsidies in the future to more shamelessly suit their purposes (or it wouldn’t be hard to imagine that, if political oblivion weren’t stalking the Liberals like a leopard does a particularly succulent antelope).

And while one can take a certain ice-cold comfort in the idea of Poilievre axing media subsidies across the board — at least it’s consistent! — Conservative MP Michelle Ferrari chimed in Thursday evening with this downright North Korean social-media post: “Pierre Poilievre will restore journalistic ethics and integrity.”

No politician should covet that job. Anyone that does, from any party, should be looked on with the most extreme suspicion.

Chris Selley: Liberals offer the worst possible reaction to CTV's doctored Poilievre clip — National Post

Liberals don't actually care about good journalism — or at least not enough to oppose bad journalism when it helps them

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[petros]

This week, Liberal strategist Sarbjit Kaur declared herself aghast that two people actually got fired, dismissing the admitted manipulation as no big deal. “When media are caving to angry partisan mobs … we’re in big trouble.”

Immigration Minister Marc Miller had earlier waved the controversy away as “another Pierre Poilievre hissy fit against the media.”

“So Mr. Freedom … orders his MPs not to talk to news orgs that won’t parrot Conservative talking points,” sneered Taleeb Noormohamed, parliamentary secretary to Heritage Minister Pascal St-Onge, who claims to cherish and wish to support good-quality journalism in Canada.

And here’s St-Onge herself, putting that misapprehension to bed: “(Poilievre’s) hidden agenda: to not have journalists ask him difficult questions.”

To my astonishment, some journalists, former and even current, took against CTV’s actions or partially defended its reporting. Adam Vaughan, a former City TV journalist and Liberal MP, added a typically unique twist to the affair: “Re-arranging and deliberately fabricating a quote is wrong,” he wrote on X, “but … would dental care survive a non-confidence vote?”

“Bad journalism,” Vaughan conceded, “but is it inaccurate?”

Then there was the Toronto Star’s Susan Delacourt. “I think this is CTV saying they fired the people who offended a politician,” she ventured. Her Friday column cited “what (Poilievre) saw as a ‘malicious’ editing job on some of his recent remarks, implying he was trying to bring down the government over dental care instead of the carbon levy” — without even mentioning CTV’s admission of wrongdoing.

Dismal.

One thing we can definitely take away from all this: Liberals do not, in fact, actually care about good journalism — or at least they don’t care about it enough not to support bad journalism when they think it helps them, which is a distinction without a difference.

And having said we’ve arrived at the worst of all worlds, all this presents an obvious chance for things to get much worse indeed. The Liberal government provides robust taxpayer subsidies to the media — some more directly, as with newspaper publishers like Postmedia (which owns National Post), and some of it more indirectly to broadcasters like CTV, through program funding, licences, and market protection.

A bare minimum for supporting those subsidies is that your government shouldn’t play favourites with the media according to ideological leanings. (Or at least you should cloak such decisions in the language of not meeting “journalistic standards.”) And yet, Noorhamed in particular — who, remember, is parliamentary secretary to the minister responsible for these handouts — is always eager to criticize Postmedia for criticizing the Liberal government … because Postmedia collects government subsidy.

“Your paper wouldn’t be in business were it not for the subsidies that the government that you hate put in place — the same subsidies your Trump-adjacent foreign hedge fund owners gladly take to pay your salary,” Noormohamed chided National Post columnist Terry Newman earlier this month — not for the first time.

Noorhamed and other Liberals often sound like they absolutely hate their own media-subsidy programs, precisely because they contribute to what they consider “bad” journalism — i.e., journalism that criticizes them, focuses on their idea of “the wrong things,” spreads their idea of “misinformation.” It’s not hard to imagine the Liberals altering the “standards” for subsidies in the future to more shamelessly suit their purposes (or it wouldn’t be hard to imagine that, if political oblivion weren’t stalking the Liberals like a leopard does a particularly succulent antelope).

And while one can take a certain ice-cold comfort in the idea of Poilievre axing media subsidies across the board — at least it’s consistent! — Conservative MP Michelle Ferrari chimed in Thursday evening with this downright North Korean social-media post: “Pierre Poilievre will restore journalistic ethics and integrity.”

No politician should covet that job. Anyone that does, from any party, should be looked on with the most extreme suspicion.

Chris Selley: Liberals offer the worst possible reaction to CTV's doctored Poilievre clip — National Post

Liberals don't actually care about good journalism — or at least not enough to oppose bad journalism when it helps them

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Almost belongs in How Low Can They Go thread.

 

[Ron in Regina]

There’s a link above.
I wonder if this is part of the conservative secret agenda that I keep hearing about but never really hear about…?

 

[Ron in Regina]

The outright attack on Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre was beyond anything that should be defended by anyone in the media industry.

Poilievre walked out to speak to the media on Monday to explain why he felt the government needed to be defeated. Sadly, CTV National News came up with their own reason that the Conservatives wanted to defeat the government.

In reality, Poilievre said that he wanted to defeat the Trudeau government on the carbon tax. Yet the report on CTV National News portrayed this as Poilievre opposing dental care for seniors.

This wasn’t based on anything that Poilievre had said but rather on “claims” by the Liberals.

The problem isn’t just the context that CTV News placed the clip but also the fact that Poilievre never said those words in that order. To get that clip, CTV had to take two words from near the start of what Poilievre had said, two words from the end of his statement, and then the rest from the middle.

In essence, CTV created a Frankenstein sentence by taking different parts of what Poilievre had said and putting them in a different order.

This is nothing short of journalistic malpractice, anyone in the industry who is still defending these actions is hurting the credibility of journalism.

You don’t create a Frankensentence through a “misunderstanding” in the editing suite. Creating that clip of Poilievre took deliberate effort to cut different phrases together.

Remarkably, the Liberals, all the way up to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, have attacked Poilievre for demanding an apology. Remember, this is a government that spends a lot of time speaking about putting a stop to misinformation and disinformation and yet have spent this week defending actual fake news because it benefits their party.

LILLEY: Entire media industry hurt by CTV hit job on Poilievre — Toronto Sun

The network has fired two people and apologized, but damage is done.

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“I, as you well know, have often disagreed with some of the conclusions that media has been opining on from time to time, but in the conveying of facts, in the challenging people in positions of authority or who seek positions of authority, it’s absolutely essential that we always defend the freedom of independence of media,” Trudeau said on Tuesday.

“And politicians who deliberately undermine the legitimacy and the hard work by professional journalists are not standing up for democracy, are certainly not standing up for freedom.”

In standing up for a blatantly false report, Trudeau isn’t defending journalists or the media, he is helping cement the idea, held by an increasing number of Canadians, that the media is bought and paid for by the Trudeau Liberals. By CTV airing this report, by the journalists and editors who created it, they are doing the same thing, giving skeptics all the more reason to doubt the entire industry.

 

[petros]

The outright attack on Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre was beyond anything that should be defended by anyone in the media industry.

Poilievre walked out to speak to the media on Monday to explain why he felt the government needed to be defeated. Sadly, CTV National News came up with their own reason that the Conservatives wanted to defeat the government.

In reality, Poilievre said that he wanted to defeat the Trudeau government on the carbon tax. Yet the report on CTV National News portrayed this as Poilievre opposing dental care for seniors.

This wasn’t based on anything that Poilievre had said but rather on “claims” by the Liberals.

The problem isn’t just the context that CTV News placed the clip but also the fact that Poilievre never said those words in that order. To get that clip, CTV had to take two words from near the start of what Poilievre had said, two words from the end of his statement, and then the rest from the middle.

In essence, CTV created a Frankenstein sentence by taking different parts of what Poilievre had said and putting them in a different order.

This is nothing short of journalistic malpractice, anyone in the industry who is still defending these actions is hurting the credibility of journalism.

You don’t create a Frankensentence through a “misunderstanding” in the editing suite. Creating that clip of Poilievre took deliberate effort to cut different phrases together.

Remarkably, the Liberals, all the way up to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, have attacked Poilievre for demanding an apology. Remember, this is a government that spends a lot of time speaking about putting a stop to misinformation and disinformation and yet have spent this week defending actual fake news because it benefits their party.

LILLEY: Entire media industry hurt by CTV hit job on Poilievre — Toronto Sun

The network has fired two people and apologized, but damage is done.

apple.news

“I, as you well know, have often disagreed with some of the conclusions that media has been opining on from time to time, but in the conveying of facts, in the challenging people in positions of authority or who seek positions of authority, it’s absolutely essential that we always defend the freedom of independence of media,” Trudeau said on Tuesday.

“And politicians who deliberately undermine the legitimacy and the hard work by professional journalists are not standing up for democracy, are certainly not standing up for freedom.”

In standing up for a blatantly false report, Trudeau isn’t defending journalists or the media, he is helping cement the idea, held by an increasing number of Canadians, that the media is bought and paid for by the Trudeau Liberals. By CTV airing this report, by the journalists and editors who created it, they are doing the same thing, giving skeptics all the more reason to doubt the entire industry.

Shills!