Friday, September 13, 2024

Are CBC’s science reporters violating Mother Corp’s own Journalistic Standards and Practices? (Opinion)

















According to the JSP, “We do not promote any particular point of

view.” Yet if you heard our Senior Science Reporter talk about the

first private space walk the other day, you’ll know what I’m

getting at. She was positively besotted, using superlatives like

“historic,” and “amazing” often. If that’s not promoting a point of

view, I don’t know what is. (And she’s not the only one.)

Apparently piles of people see the space race as a noble

venture, fulfilling our need to “go where no man has gone before.”

Lots don’t, including myself. With Planet Earth struggling to

shrug off war, famine, poverty, disease and climate catastrophe, I

see countless dollars and rocket fuel being wasted in a quest to go

to a place where there’s no food, no water, no atmosphere, little life

of any kind.

News flash, folks!

We have all of those things right here under our feet

around us! I’m not suggesting our science reporters embark on

quest tomorrow to discredit the space race. Just grow some

skepticism and ask “why” for a change. It should be what we do.

Monday, September 2, 2024

A DISGRACEFUL BETRAYAL OF OUR PRECIOUS ECOSPHERE - A LETTER

       Photo depicts hog manure spread on a Manitoba
field after a rainstorm. Photo by Dr. Eva Pip.




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