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Bernardo de La Paz

(49,001 posts) Fri Mar 25, 2022, 05:22 AM Mar 2022

Yellow journalism from the Toronto Sun

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Context: A Croatian anti-vaxxer and a German far rightist spoke against Trudeau.

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'DICTATORSHIP OF THE WORST KIND': European MPs blast Trudeau for COVID 'rights violation' https://bit.ly/36J6orF

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Yellow journalism from the Toronto Sun (Original Post) Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2022 OP

Owned by PostMedia Network and... hlthe2b Mar 2022 #1

Hmm, Media Bias / Fact Check says definitely Right Wing, "mostly factual". . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2022 #2

The Toronto Sun is the equivalent of The Daily Mail in London... Spazito Mar 2022 #3

hlthe2b

(102,267 posts)

1. Owned by PostMedia Network and...

Reply to Bernardo de La Paz (Original post)

Fri Mar 25, 2022, 06:53 AM

Mar 2022

In October 2018, it was reported that CEO Andrew MacLeod had declared the company "insufficiently conservative." That resulted in Kevin Libin, who had played an active role in defeating a union drive at the paper earlier that year,[27] taking charge of all political reporting and analysis in Postmedia newspapers to ensure the newspapers became more "reliably conservative."[28]

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Bernardo de La Paz

(49,001 posts)

2. Hmm, Media Bias / Fact Check says definitely Right Wing, "mostly factual". . . . . nt

Reply to hlthe2b (Reply #1)

Fri Mar 25, 2022, 09:05 AM

Mar 2022

Spazito

(50,338 posts)

3. The Toronto Sun is the equivalent of The Daily Mail in London...

Reply to Bernardo de La Paz (Original post)

Fri Mar 25, 2022, 10:50 AM

Mar 2022

right wing trash.

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