Anonymous, inaccurate, flyer ought not to have been broadcast

OTTAWA - The broadcast of the content of an anonymous flyer – which turned out to be inaccurate – in the middle of an election campaign should not have been allowed, the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council said today. The decision concerned Fairchild Television and Talentvision’s broadcasts of a news report on July 27, 2006 about the campaign for the federal Liberal Party nomination in the Vancouver Kingsway riding two days later. The complaint focused principally on the alleged inaccuracy, unfairness and lack of balance in the report resulting from the on-screen broadcast of the text of an anonymous flyer which...