in World News CBC’s Kamala-mania: 68 stories on Harris campaign in one month
By Cosmin Dzsurdzsa, True North Wire
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has dedicated around-the-clock coverage of US Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris’ campaign despite being mandated to cover “predominantly and distinctively Canadian” content.
Coverage of the Harris campaign by the CBC has been so extensive it reached a rate of over two stories per day, or 68 stories in the past month.
Based on cbc.ca and Google search results, True North tallied how many stories the taxpayer-funded broadcaster has dedicated to covering the Harris campaign in the past month.
Both video and article content were included in the count. Only stories where Harris’ name appeared in the headline or where the presidential candidate was a main subject of the article or video were counted.
Between July 19 and August 19, the CBC put out 68 pieces of content averaging about 2.2 stories per day on Harris’ campaign over the 31 days.
Coverage included articles and videos with headlines like: “Social media is introducing Kamala Harris to young voters. But will it get her votes?”, “Are Kamala Harris memes of coconut trees and ‘brat summer’ part of her official campaign?”, “Why is everyone going coconuts for Kamala?”, “Harris naming Tim Walz her VP pick is a ‘brilliant decision,’ says Democratic strategist.”