LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Panel's comments not as sweeping as article suggested

In today's Cartt.ca, you reported on the CBSC's decision concerning 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. In your first paragraph, you commented that the "broadcast of the content of an anonymous flyer ... turned out to be wholly inaccurate." While your report of the decision was fair and correct, you did choose to describe the flyer as "wholly" inaccurate. The CBSC did not say that. The Panel's comments were focussed and limited, rather than sweeping. The...