From this morning's Broadcast Dialogue:
GENERAL: In an opinion piece printed in the Guelph Mercury, Luisa D’Amato said CBC disregarded the rules of fair play in its coverage of Jian Ghomeshi. She argued that CBC threw “journalistic ethics and the integrity of the legal system down the toilet” by promising a juicy insider account of "what really happened"; this during its on-air promotions leading up to the Fifth Estate’s airing of “The Unmaking of Jian Ghomeshi” last Friday,. The show's producers, she wrote, were probably thrilled with themselves but they forgot that in this country once a matter is before the courts it is considered highly inappropriate, and sometimes illegal, to disseminate information from outside the courtroom that links an accused person to a crime. D’Amato bolstered her stance with this quote from of the Canadian Press Stylebook: "Every person charged and before the courts is entitled to be presumed innocent and to receive a fair trial. It is forbidden to publish anything that passes judgment on an accused or that could hinder a fair trial unless it has been admitted in court as evidence"...