Grave Error: How the Media Misled Us, a book in Canada that is causing a lot of political heat, contains essays by political scholars and analysts who question the media’s claims about 215 children being buried under an apple orchard, based on ground penetrating radar results, with no follow-up digs. This claim has caused millions of dollars to be paid to lawyers and consultants and policy-makers, and has also caused a lot of contention and division among Canadians, who have difficulty discussing this topic sanely and rationally.
We’ve been following this story, as it reminds us of the PCR test story that propped up the covid policies.
Professor Frances Widdowson, who was fired from her university for expressing her views about this topic (also being a contributing author to that book) as well as wokeism, was invited to “debate” the topic with Chief Aaron Pete, a young Canadian Indigenous lawyer. This is one of the BEST “debates” we have heard, in any topic, in a long time – I actually think it was more of a “dialogue” (in the truest sense) than any “debate”, and it is the kind of conversation that no longer, or very seldom, takes place in circles of higher learning. It is an example of what a conversation can be like when people with opposing perspectives come together, and we certainly learned something from listening to these two individuals.
During that conversation, Chief Pete mentioned an interview that Frances Widdowson had with Jordan Tucker, a young CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) reporter. That was an appalling interview, something that demonstrates the degradation of CBC, sending out a young reporter who did not know how to interview a professor.
Both Chief Aaron Pete and CBC’s Jordon Tucker went into their conversations with Professor Widdowson on the opposing side. But the way these two individuals approached Professor Widdowson was starkly different. These two conversations would be excellent study material for students of journalism.