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Sun News’ Levant called out by CBSC, again

OTTAWA - The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) said that the misidentification of protesters made by Sun News Network host Ezra Levant violated the Canadian Association of Broadcasters’ (CAB) Code of Ethics. On January 23, 2013, the public affairs discussion program The Source, which is hosted by Levant, showed videoclips of a protest that had occurred outside the Sun’s Toronto office.  The protestors objected to Sun Media’s coverage of the ‘Idle No More’ movement.  A few days later, Levant replayed the clips, saying that, following their initial broadcast, he had received information from viewers about who some of the protestors were. ...