Broadcasters need to be accurate: CBSC

OTTAWA – Improperly identifying just whose police force were roughing up Tibetan protesters got CTV Newsnet and Global in hot water with the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council. The CBSC today released two decisions concerning the misidentification of a video clip. CTV Newsnet, on an episode of its public affairs program Mike Duffy Live on March 24, 2008, left the impression that it was Chinese police suppressing Tibetan protestors in the video clip when in fact it was Nepalese police. In the lead-up to the Summer Olympics 2008 in Beijing China, there was much public discussion about China’s human rights record,...