Rodney Palmer
Rodney Palmer is a veteran CBC and CTV journalist who describes how state-broadcaster messaging and censorship suppressed reporting on vaccine deaths and injuries.
Key points
- Rodney Palmer is a veteran Canadian journalist who worked 20 years for the Globe and Mail, Vancouver Sun, and CBC, including as a foreign correspondent and bureau chief.
- He argues that during COVID the CBC morphed from a public broadcaster doing bottom-up news gathering into a state broadcaster pushing top-down propaganda.
- He cites a CBC National segment and CBC Kids broadcast that he says dismissed the lab-leak theory and told children the vaccine had no significant safety concerns.
- He says CBC Manitoba reporter Marianne Kloak had a myocarditis safety-signal story censored and quit after 35 years, calling it the collapse of journalism.
- He argues the federal government funded Science Up First with $1.75 million and that its members became the CBC's only approved experts on vaccines.
- He contends CBC concealed guests' government ties and ignored Health Canada death data while telling Canadians there was no evidence of vaccine harm.
- He characterizes the terms anti-vaxxer, conspiracy theorist, and misinformation as censorship tools of propaganda and blames CBC's failure for necessitating the inquiry.
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