Sleazy Edit By Canadian State Media Frames Video Blogger As An Agent Of Beijing by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2022-02-08 at 05:32:45 )

Sleazy Edit By Canadian State Media Frames Video Blogger As An Agent Of Beijing by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

The state-funded Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) has committed an absolutely jaw-dropping act of journalistic malpractice amid the wests mad scramble to whip up public hysteria about China.

Daniel Dumbrill, a Canadian video blogger who lives in China and frequently criticizes western narratives about the Chinese government, has posted a series of videos on Twitter which proves the CBC deceitfully edited part of an interview with him to make it appear as though he was saying the exact opposite of what he had actually said.

In a newly released segment titled "How China uses influencers to squash human rights concerns", the CBC warns its audience about "westerners living in China with pro-government views" who act as social media "influencers" and were "invited on trips organized and often paid for by the Communist Party." The CBC then introduces Mr. Dumbrill as a "China-based influencer" who makes "videos defending Chinese policy in Xinjiang" that were "often amplified by state media."

All the Canadian late night comedians have moved to the CBCs The National.-Daniel Dumbrill (DanielDumbrill) February 7, 2022

After framing Mr. Dumbrill in this way, the CBC then inserted a short, out-of-context clip of Mr. Dumbrill saying "If anywhere else in the world was doing the same thing, it would be called a marketing campaign." After introducing Mr. Dumbrill as a pro-China influencer whose work gets amplified by Chinese state media, the sudden insertion of that clip makes it look as though Mr. Dumbrill is defending himself and confessing to being part of a Chinese marketing campaign, especially after the video then cuts away and CBCs Steven D Souza moves to another subject with a "But China is not just using influencers at home.."

A review of the interview footage that video clip was taken from however makes it abundantly clear that Mr. Dumbrill was in fact saying the exact opposite of what he was portrayed as saying.

While the CBC only used about three seconds of footage from what Mr. Dumbrill says was a 23-minute interview, Mr. Dumbrills own footage from that interview shows that Mr. Dumbrill had explicitly denied being part of any propaganda campaign shortly before his out-of-context "marketing campaign" comment, and that he had used that phrase to refer not to himself but to the unbalanced way the west has been reacting to Beijings attempts to promote its image to the world.

You have actually got to watch both clips to fully understand how unconscionable the CBCs deceitful edit was. Do not worry, they are quite short. First watch this clip of the way the CBC framed Mr. Dumbrills comment:

Now watch this footage posted by Mr. Dumbrill. Notice his explicit denial of Mr. D Souzas accusation that he is part of any campaign and pay attention to the context in which he makes the "marketing campaign" comment:

To see where they pulled the 3.5 second soundbite from, here is the context. The "marketing campaign" reference is at the end. They pulled this by-the-way supporting auxiliary point out of context & painted me as answering as a participant, not an external commentator as stated. -Daniel Dumbrill (DanielDumbrill) February 7, 2022

Mr. Dumbrill not only denies being part of any kind of campaign but adds that he does not benefit financially from his video blogging about China and in fact does so at great personal expense. His "marketing campaign" remark is snipped out of a thoughtful, nuanced objection to the way Beijing working to improve its public image gets labeled an "influence campaign", a rather nefarious-sounding term not typically applied to western cities, provinces and nations who do more or less the same thing. It is crystal clear that he is not making that observation in any relation to himself and his work but rather speaking objectively about Beijings behavior, entirely separate from the accusation of being a propaganda influencer.

Mr. D Souza knew this. He sat there with the CBC editors and knowingly put together a deceitful propaganda piece falsely framing someone else as admitting to being a government propagandist. All with the funding of Canadian taxpayers.

This is made even more ironic by the fact that the CBC segment is dominated by the analysis of a think tanker from the anti-China narrative management firm Australian Strategic Policy Institute, which Mr. D Souza never bothers to inform CBCs audience is extensively funded by governments and the military-industrial complex. Mr. Dumbrill had even posted footage of the interview where he is seen telling Mr. D Souza that citing think tanks funded by governments and the arms industry without telling your audience that that is what you are doing is journalistic malpractice, which is plainly true. And they went and did exactly that anyway.

A war machine-funded think tanker appearing on a brazenly propagandistic show on western state media to explain the dark mechanics of Chinese propaganda is so twisted it is actually delicious.

"Do you have any shame about doing exactly what you claim others are doing: pushing state propaganda?" journalist Aaron Maté tweeted at Mr.
D Souza in response to Mr. Dumbrills footage. "If you have any remote interest in journalism, you should have Daniel on - live - and let him respond to your smear job."

Somehow I doubt that is going to happen.

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