Thread by @MsAmyMacPherson

1/26 🧵#CDNpoli #CDNmedia

You've heard me address the 4th Estate & its importance to a functioning democracy. You've seen destruction stateside when that strength becomes a liability via #FakeNews

This #thread is RE the collapse of Canada's parliamentary press gallery & #Elxn44

2/26 🧵#CDNpoli #CDNmedia #Elxn44

I've spent the past 3 elections working nonstop to correct #disinformation & it's so out-of-control that one person, or one team, is incapable of processing all the lies in our popular press anymore

I just didn't expect to become its target

3/26 🧵#CDNpoli #CDNmedia #Elxn44

I won't make excuses for anyone or search for a less antagonistic description to avoid the words 'lie, lying, or liar'

Dancing around what's happening in the parliamentary press gallery would be to enable it & I will play no role in propaganda

4/26 🧵#CDNpoli #Elxn44

There are still many honest & skilled reporters in #CDNmedia, but the majority of are out of permanent work due to the current dynamics

Those dynamics include a monopoly of partisan media control, public rejection, & the resulting implosion of revenue

5/26 🧵#CDNpoli #CDNmedia #Elxn44

These conditions are inching Canada toward #ZombieDemocracy status faster than expected. It's playing out in the current election & through the one symptom all endangered states share in common:

Manipulated journalism

►archive.is/z6jDl

6/26 🧵#CDNpoli #CDNmedia #Elxn44

As I've mentioned, partisan OpEd soldiers would have you believe that Canadian news is biased to favour Liberals & there couldn't be a bigger lie sold to impressionable students, the voting public, or political donors

https://twitter.com/MsAmyMacPherson/status/1410575471973183489

7/26 🧵#CDNpoli #CDNmedia #Elxn44

Now I want to give you a master class in media manipulation, to show what can happen in Canada when the Fourth Estate is corrupted by partisan ownership. There are countless examples to choose from, but I'm going to use myself to demonstrate

8/26 🧵#CDNpoli #CDNmedia #Elxn44

It was only yesterday that I posted a #thread RE violence in #Bolton, Ontario, where PMJT was prevented from campaigning on behalf of Liberals

My 1st copy appeared at 9am & it was updated at 10pm with organizer identity

https://twitter.com/MsAmyMacPherson/status/1431601491018723331

9/26 🧵#CDNpoli #Elxn44

Likewise, a story by @CanadianPress was syndicated in Global News & NatPo

If you're not familiar with CP, how it works is #CDNmedia can purchase articles & choose from a few title options & version length, so editors can tailor to their space allocations

10/26 🧵#CDNpoli #CDNmedia #Elxn44

But regardless of version chosen, any @CanadianPress article should maintain the same spirit from one copy to the next. It's just that one version may contain a few less paragraphs to help printers deal with the layout

No harm, no foul, right?

11/26 🧵#CDNpoli #CDNmedia #Elxn44

Except digital news has changed the landscape & it's not about page layout at the presses anymore. Now @CanadianPress options relate to tone & an editor's ideological choice

And during an election that tone is everything to manipulating voters

12/26 🧵#CDNpoli #CDNmedia #Elxn44

Having different versions of same story also confuses readers & sparks vicious arguments, because Jane read one copy & John saw something completely altered

With ability of any journo to update any story, they also change throughout the day

13/26 🧵#CDNpoli #CDNmedia #Elxn44

So lets examine what happened to the #Bolton story that produced 3 different narratives. We'll call these:

Exhibit A (Global)
►archive.is/C2s2w

Exhibit B (Global)
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Exhibit C (NatPo)
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14/26 🧵#CDNpoli #CDNmedia #Elxn44

#ExhibitA via @globalnews was published at 3:09pm & updated at 6:33pm

It has no byline, no mention of RCMP, & no mention of Zelda, who was squarely addressed in my thread as helping to organize the #Bolton disruption

►archive.is/C2s2w

15/26 🧵#CDNpoli #CDNmedia #Elxn44

#ExhibitB via @globalnews published at 3:09pm & updated at 11:08pm

It adds @jmbryden byline, vulgar slurs @ PMJT, features Michelle Rempel, interviews Zelda & RCMP, says hecklers use #HateClub to organize + other lies
►archive.is/6iwh8

16/26 🧵#CDNpoli #CDNmedia #Elxn44

#ExhibitC via @nationalpost provides no byline or time it was published

It specifically lies & says Zelda + RCMP declined to comment, alters an incident from Hamilton to Ancaster, & reiterates the lie about #HateClub

►archive.is/592uv

17/26 🧵#CDNpoli #CDNmedia #Elxn44

Differences between Exhibits A/B/C are dramatic & don't maintain spirit of the #Bolton story. There are too many alterations to mention in a tweet essay & it requires comparing them side-by-side as well as line-by-line, leaving readers dizzy

18/26 🧵#CDNpoli #CDNmedia #Elxn44

Needless to say, for voters to discuss the violence in #Bolton, they would first need to quote which version they saw & hammer out the discrepancies between them still

It's a recipe for distrust, a haven for #FakeNews + @jmbryden lied outright

19/26 🧵#CDNpoli #CDNmedia #Elxn44

You see, I'm the person who coined the term #HateClub & made it a hashtag on Twitter. I posted at 9am & by the time @jmbryden published her story at 3pm, it was already viral & spawned an outpouring of sympathy for PMJT

https://twitter.com/MsAmyMacPherson/status/1431601506621575173

20/26 🧵#CDNpoli #CDNmedia #Elxn44

I regret to have to say that although @jmbryden is a veteran reporter at @CanadianPress, she stole my work & completely misrepresented it

If you reference the photo in post (15/24), you'll see this is where it came from

https://twitter.com/MsAmyMacPherson/status/1431601510710923264

21/26 🧵#CDNpoli #CDNmedia #Elxn44

So why would @jmbryden, @CanadianPress, @nationalpost, & @globalnews lie about another journo?

Well, this photo displays the analytics from my thread & link will show you how Conservative-backed media responded to it

►archive.is/pDYs7

22/26 🧵#CDNpoli #CDNmedia #Elxn44

Here's what they accomplished:

I'm libeled as organizing violent #HateClub protests due to their poison pill

I'm swamped w notifications from dubious people who now think I'm one of them

And they hid that Zelda works for the Attorney General

23/26 🧵#CDNpoli #CDNmedia #Elxn44

They've also managed to obliterate the purpose of my #HateClub hashtag, because no sane person will click it anymore & learn that Zelda, who actually ran a group stalking PMJT, works for a Conservative attorney general in battleground Ontario

24/26 🧵#CDNpoli #CDNmedia #Elxn44

Given that @globalnews is involved in these #DirtyTricks, it seems prudent for @jmbryden & @CanadianPress to grasp exactly what they've joined forces with

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25/26 🧵#CDNpoli #CDNmedia #Elxn44

I'm deeply distressed that @jmbryden & @CanadianPress have put my physical safety in peril as a fellow female journo. It's not like I need a Corey-Hurren-type trying to track me down

I'm also confused by their safe haven for PMJT's stalkers

26/26 🧵#CDNpoli #CDNmedia #Elxn44

A definite line has been drawn in the sand & @jmbryden will need to decide where she stands

I'm asking for a full public apology + corrections to be appended to every published copy of her @CanadianPress story. Retracting doesn't undo the harm

@threadreaderapp Unroll, please & thank you