Dear Editor:
RE: ‘Twisted view’, March 23.
If we are to believe Jim Trautman, Fox News with Tucker Carlson is fake news, while the CBC stands for the truth.
Having followed both CBC News online and Tucker Carlson, I would have to come to the opposite conclusion, at least to some extent. The conservative digital media platform True North features a weekly program called “Fake News Friday,” which highlights news stories from the previous week that it considers to be fake news, and the CBC provides it with much of its content.
Of course, what some consider to be “fake news” is often just a matter of not agreeing with someone’s conservative or liberal viewpoints. It could also relate to media outlets who present news that may be factually correct, but tell only one side of the story, while ignoring or whitewashing news or facts that present a different picture than what they want to paint. We need to be very discerning.
Trautman appears to have the same mindset as our prime minister, who would have us believe that what he and the Liberal Party tell us is the truth, while any opposing views are false, conspiracy theories, misinformation, racist, etc.
The Liberals’ Bill C-11, dubbed by many as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s online censorship bill, is close to becoming law. It gives the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission control over what Canadians see on the internet.
My fear is that this legislation will be used to silence conservative voices using the pretext that they are “fake news.”
Henry Brunsveld,
Puslinch