The Canary has been attacked for producing supposedly fake news after it claimed BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg was listed as a speaker at a Tory Party event.
But The Canary now claims her name was taken off the event only after its article was published.
The Tory Party website and the CSJ who are hosting the event have managed to avoid Google caching copies of their previous versions, so it’s nearly impossible to check if what The Canary now says is true.
However, I’ve just checked the event as it was listed on EventBrite – a cached snapshot by Google of the page as it appeared on 20 Sep 2017 21:03:24 GMT – and sure enough Laura Kuenssberg’s name did indeed appear on the list of speakers:
The current page – you can see it here – has since been altered to exclude Kuenssberg’s name. This of course may well all have been done without her knowledge.
Looks to me like The Canary has been set up …
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Let us get the tenses set up.
You were being set up but you realised and denounced the attempted set, upon which thye had left their sticky little fingers all over.
Despite an attempted fix it, you fixed them?
No?
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ive known kerry mendoza long long before the canary was started , one thing ide swear by is kerrys honesty she doesent publish fake news
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It wasn’t really a set-up; more an attempt to hide something embarrassing which The Canary had found out.
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Reblogged this on idontbelieveitagain and commented:
There you go!
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Reblogged this on sdbast.
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Not sure I understand why The Canary gets such a hard time. They seem to be genuine and they are, at least in the reporting of issues such as the scandalous behaviour of the DWP, out there talking about it and reporting on the real situation. Not the mainstream biased version. I give them a pass.
At least they, unlike Novara which is rapidly becoming a Labour mouthpiece (while ignoring the misery Labour are causing in local government), are engaging with people.
Though both need to do more in that regard. We need a proper media representing the working class.
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Whenever I used to see a Canary link on Facebook it was usually of the “YOU WON’T BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENED NEXT” variety.
Tedious, so I unfollowed.
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Why is the CSJ hosting a Tory party event? Do Tories even understand the meaning of Social Justice? If so they appear to be having extreme difficulty in administering it.
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The CSJ a rightwing think tank that blames the victims of austerity for their own demise.
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Her listing is in a different font size than the other speakers (whatever that means). Altogether, very odd.
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Reblogged this on Worldtruth.
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Helen Lewis of the New “Statesman” (Laughable) writes: “During the bit of Jeremy Corbyn’s speech to Labour conference where journalists were just beginning to drift off, (no anti Corbyn digs here then) Buzzfeed Political Editor Jim Waterson posted about a story on The Canary. The pro-Corbyn “alternative” site had posted an article by Steve Topple headlined: “We need to talk about Laura Kuenssberg. She’s listed as a speaker at the Tory Party conference.” As Waterson put it, “It took me two mins to call the event organiser and find out this is bollocks. She’s not speaking at Tory conference. Already going viral regardless.”
So basic, fundamental plain English is beyond their grasp?
The Canary stated “She’s LISTED as a speaker….” which she was until her name was removed, so the bollocks is coming from Waterson and Lewis.Shame they are incapable of understanding written English – a fail in even basic GCSE. Helen Lewis puts together a response to the Canary by writing a flimsy and pathetic attack based on “click bait” misinformation and misrepresentation.. ..making of herself that which she condemns. Touche….(if one can call an own goal a successful riposte).
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wish I could paste here because I have an image of the original ticket with her name firmly in the middle of it.
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I think the ‘state of affairs’ now for journalists (mainly mainstream) and right wing tory supporters and party members is to just troll social media spouting untruths and provoking …mainly because the comics they work for or read (or comedian as the case is in work) has lost virtually all credibility as an honest source .
Real news is great and the agenda to discredit it keeps backfiring, which I enjoy and those actually bothered to put work into journalism (any form) keep it up please and if that exposes liars …all the better .
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It’s irrelevant. She was listed as an invited speaker because they’d sent her an email inviting her to speak. That’s all. If a ‘The World Transformed’ event had sent an email inviting her to speak they could have publicised that invitation too. But, what the full idiocy of this is, is that Kunesberg is influential and has been fairly critical of the government, by publicising this invitation the CSJ has given those on the left who are critical of her what they perceive as bias a chance to damage her credibility.
I congratulate The Canary on being gullible idiots and falling for the oldest trick in the book.
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This isn’t fake news, it’s NON news. Nobody gives a **** about this except you sad people with nothing better to think about.
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I rest my case 🙂
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”nothing better to think about” what a great saying ,a defining saying even. Well exposed there Molly .
‘think I will rerun stairway to heaven with headphones,ta’.
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Some blogs are superb at bringing to the public attention the important issues which the mainstream media won’t tell us about. This blog isn’t one of them.
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Must be doing something right to bring out the creatures of the night from their crypts in daylight hours
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Molly…I wholeheartedly disagree,tom puts in a lot of work ,also has a good sense of humour ,he holds to his principles and highlights issues that mainstream avoid….on the odd occasion his blog wrong (as I have said before) its always a good thing as when he’s right its a disgrace.
On this subject bbc employees getting house of lord tory minister positions shows bias from bbc and agenda…the reported attacks towards Canary were first not the other way round so thanks to people like Tom we can see that Canary were justified.
What is Iain Duncans CJS about ? social justice lol ,so an invite to that club speaks volumes Im afraid to us ”nothing better to think abouts”.
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ps…I presume .
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Helen Lewis in the New Statesman went on to accuse the people who criticise Keunsberg as misogynists. And right there is where she totally lost the argument. She just couldn’t keep her hidden agenda hidden.
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