Bias at CTV

I rarely watch the 11 o’clock news as the shallowness of its coverage inevitably depresses me. CTV is particularly bad, as tonight’s segment on the Dawe family’s statement reminded me. I don’t have a clip of the segment, wherein CTV included more than a minute’s worth of statements from the family saying that Dawe was frustrated and felt betrayed, but cut out any footage of them saying that he supported the mission (the reporter did note Dawe’s support for the mission as the closing line at the end of the story).

Fortunately, a comparison of headlines makes the same point:

CBC: Fallen soldier never gave up on frustrating mission: father.

CanWest: Fallen soldier dedicated to his men and Afghan mission, family says.

Globe and Mail: Fallen soldier wasn’t losing hope, father says.

CTV: Dawe was frustrated with ‘guerrilla war’ tactics.