Journalists are increasingly under the gun - from journalists - for lacking the courage to think independently or even report anything that challenges their biases
When I published for Metroland/Torstar, we ran a weekly column called Court Dockets, a weekly listing of anyone in the city convicted of a criminal offence. We did not have the resources to have a full time court reporter, and I felt it was unfair to report that people has been charged with a crime, unless we were prepared to cover it till its conclusion. No other newspapers in our company would run what became the highest read column in our paper, because they were afraid an advertiser might be convicted of a crime, and they would pull their advertising.
As I wrote (https://www.theaudit.ca/p/who-will-underwrite-the-legal-liability), the CBC was not only playing "the role of ally to" a few activists "whose assumptions are threatened by Cass and her findings", but of ally the Canadian Paediatric Society itself! The liberal use of puberty blockers in Canada is official policy.
When I published for Metroland/Torstar, we ran a weekly column called Court Dockets, a weekly listing of anyone in the city convicted of a criminal offence. We did not have the resources to have a full time court reporter, and I felt it was unfair to report that people has been charged with a crime, unless we were prepared to cover it till its conclusion. No other newspapers in our company would run what became the highest read column in our paper, because they were afraid an advertiser might be convicted of a crime, and they would pull their advertising.
Great context. Thanks.
As I wrote (https://www.theaudit.ca/p/who-will-underwrite-the-legal-liability), the CBC was not only playing "the role of ally to" a few activists "whose assumptions are threatened by Cass and her findings", but of ally the Canadian Paediatric Society itself! The liberal use of puberty blockers in Canada is official policy.