The left-leaning viral-video website Upworthy preached that Canadian media were much better than American media in covering the shooting in the Parliament in Ottawa. Apparently, American media were wrong to use the word “terror” and spurred fears with graphics like CNN’s “Shooter was convert to Islam.”
Canadian coverage was apparently superior because it says “rumors start” after a violent event and “We try to keep them out of our coverage.” The audio was apparently from CBC anchorman Peter Mansbridge. So the shooter wasn’t Muslim, and the effect wasn’t terror?
Upworthy “curator” Rajiv Narayan simply wrote:
We can do better than this — not just for others, but for our own crises too.
That last bit is important because it shows how even segments of Canadian media were hysterical and irresponsible in their reporting. Likewise, you can imagine that some American outlets did report this tragedy in measured tones. It would be better if most American media — and I'm looking at you, CNN and Fox News — followed their lead.
In the video, a tweet from “Josnoopy” read “Today #Canada awoke to calm, measured reasoning; all class; #America awoke to sick fear mongering on behalf @FoxNews @msnbc @cnn #GOP.”
Yes, even MSNBC is one of those dreadful fear-mongering American channels!
They quoted from Sophie Kleeman at the left-wing website Mic.com: “Rather than the hysterical, high-pitched squealing of some American networks, CBC assumed a miraculously calm tone.”
The video didn’t contain her next sentence: “As Media Bistro's Mark Joyella noted, ‘the rolling coverage was smart, careful, and absolutely un-American.’”
