August 26, 2021
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#706 Chopped And O’Tooled
Twitter became the centre of the election this week when they put a "manipulated media” tag on one of Chrystia Freeland’s tweets, which contained an edited video of Conservative leader Erin O’Toole. And is science journalism at a crisis point in Canada? An analysis finds Canada’s biggest newspapers gave about half as much coverage to the IPCC’s major recent climate report as US ones did.
Kevin Sexton
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Tristan Capacchione
Audio Editor & Technical Producer
Fatima Syed hosts with Sean Holman as co-host
Further Reading:
The Tyee: When Dire Climate News Came, Canada’s Front Pages Crumpled
Politico on the political connections at Twitter
Chrystia Freeland’s edited video of Erin O’Toole and the full video
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