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Podcast: The Great Canadian Talk Show
Episode: June 3 2024- Free Press Loaded Questions Try To Tip Trustee Election
Description: Episode 51 of Season 4 is a Lesson In Journalism, about a Winnipeg Free Press attack on two candidates in the LRSD school trustee by-election. It was an obvious hit job timed for the Saturday edition before the June 6 vote.
The powers that be in the Free Press newsroom decided to manufacture a controversy and 'Make the story fit the headline' to fool voters in St. Boniface.
"I saw newspaper reports which did not bear any relation to the facts, not even the relationship which is implied in an ordinary lie." George Orwell, 1943
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