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Carson Jerema: CBC's coverage of Henry Nowak murder an assault on reality

Foreign correspondent Chris Brown's 'analysis' is thinly veiled opinion writing

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The murder of British university student Henry Nowak is full of the expected tragedy and heartbreak, but also extreme injustice, rage, racial tensions, and what happens when an entire society goes mad on a particular brand of politics.

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So naturally, CBC foreign correspondent Chris Brown skipped all that is interesting or relevant in the case, and instead presented his audience with coverage so outrageous that calling it propaganda would be an insult to Vladimir Putin. In an “analysis” article, titled How Britain’s far right hijacked the murder of Henry Nowak, he twisted the story by imagining a “far right” threat, rather than a story of reasonable concerns about how racial politics skewed the police response to the killing. (CBC news broadcasts of the story are only marginally better.)

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In the final moments of 18-year-old Nowak’s life, British police in Hampshire arrested him and ignored his pleas for help that he’d been stabbed five times. Nowak’s murderer, Vickrum Digwa, and his family conspired to cover up the killing and instead of calling an ambulance, called police to falsely accuse Nowak of racially abusing them. Police initially believed the story full stop and, according to bodycam footage released this week, cuffed Nowak and dismissed his repeated cries that he’d been stabbed with, “I don’t think you have, mate.” In reality, it........

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