As Canada turns its attention to Jian Ghomeshi and his job with the CBC, there is another controversy at our national broadcaster that no one is talking about. News broke last week that Edward Snowden and Glen Greenwald gave the CBC bulletproof evidence that Big Telecom had been helping Canada’s spy agency (CSEC) spy on ordinary Canadians, breaking Canadian law. Any journalist with an ethical conscience would research and publish a story that had such grave implications for the Canadian public immediately. If you’re the CBC, however, you sit on the story for nine months responding that you actually support CSEC spying on Canadians. In the United States, similar stories of Big Telecom handing over email and WiFi records to the NSA had earthshattering consequences. So why did our public broadcaster, with a Crown-appointed mandate to protect the public trust, refuse to inform Canadians about so groundbreaking a story? Demand that the CBC review its journalistic practices and make sure this never happens again. We should be furious. The CBC should have made Snowden’s explosive revelations a top priority across all its platforms. When the journalist it put in charge of the file showed an ideologically based bias against so critical a story, he should have been removed immediately -- not allowed to let the story languish for almost a year. We expect more from our public broadcaster but what we got was less -- much, much less. And the stakes have never been higher. National security is back on the agenda in Ottawa and now more than ever we need our media to hold power to account. We’re going to hear more and more stories about why increased security and increased surveillance are necessary and if the Edward Snowdens of this world keep falling on deaf ears, we’re done for. Join us in telling the CBC to start acting like a public broadcaster and improve its journalistic standards. - We didnt want this
Posted on: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 21:10:05 +0000
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