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JohnyCanuck

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Tue Feb 18, 2014, 08:27 PM Feb 2014

So Who Does Rex Murphy Work For?

There is a brewing controversy swirling around longtime CBC commentator Rex Murphy and his relationship with Canada's oil industry.

Over the years, Rex Murphy has been a vocal supporter of the oilsands industry and a booster of those who attack the scientific realities of climate change.

Now questions are going unanswered by the CBC, and avoided altogether by Murphy himself, about a conflict between Murphy potentially being paid to speak at oilsands industry events and his role as a commentator at the CBC.

First to report on the potential conflict, longtime investigative journalist Andrew Mitrovica wrote on iPolitics that he was taken on a "disturbing odyssey into the CBC’s Byzantine world of subterfuge, duplicity and plain lunacy," as he tried to unravel Murphy's relationship with the CBC and the oilsands industry in Canada.

Continued here: http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/kgrandia/2014/02/so-who-does-rex-murphy-work

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So Who Does Rex Murphy Work For? (Original Post) JohnyCanuck Feb 2014 OP
Its always been clear to me who Rex Murphy works for. n/t Joe Shlabotnik Feb 2014 #1
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