As opposed to things like "Rebel News" being a font of absolute truth, right?
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As opposed to things like "Rebel News" being a font of absolute truth, right?
Rebel news is not funded by your tax dollar . Big difference .
Ever caught Rebel news in a lie? You just have to sift the religious garbage out, and you have honest reporting. Something government paid media outlets have forgotten how to do.
Yes.
That it calls itself "News". It is not "News" and hasn't been for years.
Federal Court upholds CRA decision denying Rebel News journalism tax credits; Rebel to appeal - Law360 Canada
The Federal Court has upheld a federal government decision denying journalism tax credits to the Rebel News based on a finding that it doesn’t produce enough original news content.
www.law360.ca
"The CRA noted that the advisory board had assessed that Rebel News does not produce original news content, “on the basis that the content was found to be largely opinion-based and focused on the promotion of one particular perspective.”"
"The CRA concluded that the majority of Rebel News’s content is not based on facts and multiple perspectives that are analyzed and explained by a journalist for Rebel News in accordance with s. 2.27(c) of the Guidance and found that the original decision denying QCJO status to Rebel should stand."
"The three-week news content sample considered by the CRA included 423 news reports. Of this, the Officer on the second determination review found that 283 of the items were not based on facts, nor were multiple perspectives actively pursued, researched, analyzed, or explained by a journalist for the organization. A further 135 of the news items were identified as being curated content or material rewritten from other sources which is contrary to sections 2.34 and 2.35 of the Guidance. The Officer’s report found that 10 of the 423 items reviewed over a three-week period could be considered original news content.
Realistically, for an organization that is actively engaged in the dissemination of news, three weeks should be a sufficient time frame within which to demonstrate news generating activities. Finally, I would note that it was Rebel itself, and not the CRA, who selected the three-week period for review. [45] Rebel has not satisfied me that the CRA Decision is unreasonable on the grounds that the assessment of originality of news content was confined to a consideration of news reporting during a three-week period or that the news content for this period was not reasonably considered."
Oh and the fiasco over the debates:
"Rebel News Network Ltd. is registered as a third-party advocacy group with Elections Canada. Levant has said he set up the advocacy group to “stop Mark Carney.” Elections Canada says a third party is “generally a person or group that wants to participate in or influence elections other than as a political party, electoral district association, nomination contestant or candidate.”
Rebel News - Bias and Credibility
QUESTIONABLE SOURCE A questionable source exhibits one or more of the following: extreme bias, consistent promotion of propaganda/conspiracies, poor or no
mediabiasfactcheck.com
"Overall, we rate Rebel News Right Biased and Questionable based on the promotion of propaganda, conspiracy theories, poor sourcing, and several failed fact checks."
Doesn't sound like they're "not liars" to me there, Tax.
You have no reporting, you have, at most, opinions with a sprinkling of maybe 'news'.
And it's not honest, it's right leaning/biased. I mean, see above.
I've seen some of Rebel's work and read it; it's biased and not 'honest' at all.
Government paid media outlets being... which ones exactly?
Corporate Media is certainly biased - look at CTV for example who crumpled to right wing pressures to nix a fact check segment all because the snowflakes didn't like that their dear leader was fact checked (nevermind that other people of other parties were also called out for their 'non facts').
To Corporate, it's about $$ and Clicks/Watches/Reads.