1) Indignant thread: My wife spent 40 minutes talking w a CBC reporter on camera yesterday, in a public park, risking her own health in order to describe all the things she is doing to bring safety to our elders in long term care.

2) She agreed to the interview to publicize these initiatives.
At the end of the interview the reporter asked after her own father.

3) With tears in her eyes she said she said he was scared & lonely and she felt there was nothing she could do to help him.
That was the only clip @CBCNews chose to use. And only the part where she said, “I feel there is nothing I can do.”

4) Except she does not feel there is nothing she can do, and the reporter knew it. The reporter knew she had agreed to be interviews in order to PUBLICIZE WHAT SHE IS DOING.
This decontextualization is the very definition of fake news.

5) We should not be prioritizing sensationalism. We should be mobilizing with information. We need new standards of journalism. Do better, @CBCNews.

6) For example, where is the reporting on the fact that doctors are starting to realize everywhere that ventilators are not what is requires? That there is something else at play here? Where is the pressure on provincial gov’t to accept the Feds offer of the army?

7) where is the real power of the fourth estate here? Do better!

Sorry about the typos. Mostly an ‘s’ where a ‘d’ was required.

Please sign and disseminate this initiative of hers: https://www.change.org/p/justin-trudeau-emergency-funds-to-address-unfolding-national-covid-19-crisis-in-long-term-care-facilities?utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=custom_url&recruited_by_id=dc90af40-7839-11ea-ae82-ad7f00517432