Radio shooting coverage jeopardized safety, CBSC says

OTTAWA – Live coverage of the Montreal Dawson College shooting on Vancouver’s CKNW could have been “lethal” for the students still trapped on campus as events unfolded, the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council found. The CBSC found the Corus station violated the Radio-Television News Directors Association’s Code of (Journalistic) Ethics. CKNW was airing live breaking news from its sister station in Montreal, CINW, through the Corus Radio Network, during the incident on Sept. 13, 2006.The coverage contained interviews with students and family members. Two of the interviews revealed the precise location of students still barricaded inside the school. At the time,...