Teasers were misleading, says CBSC

OTTAWA - News reports and teasers about Vancouver’s SkyTrain public transportation system on Rogers Broadcasting-owned CKWX-AM (News 1130) “misrepresented comments “ made by the organization’s CEO, the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council said this week. The CBSC concluded that the broadcasts violated Articles 1, 3, and 11 of the Radio Television News Directors Association (RTNDA – The Association of Electronic Journalists) Code of (Journalistic) Ethics as well as Clauses 5, 6 and 12 of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters’ (CAB) Code of Ethics. News1130’s top news story on the afternoon of May 1 2007 was that SkyTrain’s CEO had issued a...