Comment misrepresentation was inaccurate but not bias, says CBSC

OTTAWA — A news report about now former U.S. president Donald Trump’s approach to the pandemic, which aired on CTV National News on September 9, 2020, misrepresented a comment made by Trump and breached clauses related to accuracy in the Canadian Association of Broadcasters’ Code of Ethics and the Radio Television Digital News Association of Canada’s Code of Journalistic Ethics, according to the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC). In a decision released today, the CBSC said while the misrepresentation of the U.S. president’s statement rendered the report inaccurate, the council’s English-language panel concluded there was no breach of the ethics...