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    December 14, 2017
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    Terrible Documentary Silenced by Basic Decency
    On CBC blunders and small town censorship. Joey Coleman co-hosts.
    Jesse Brown
    Host & Publisher
    Abby Madan

    A terrible BBC documentary was pulled from CBC scheduling. A journalists’ materials were seized from a Niagara Regional Council meeting by staff exercising “enthusiastic caution.” A mill pressurized a bookstore to suppress a book-signing for a book written about that mill. More questionable CBC workplace policies. Independent crowdfunded journalist Joey Coleman co-hosts. Joey’s Twitter: @JoeyColeman

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