Sweeping changes to how news is covered means Canadian media will now include pro-cancer voices in stories about cancer, a consortium of senior news editors announced on Thursday.
Aside from coverage of cancer, news stories on everything to devastating tornadoes to meteor crashes will also now include the ‘pro-side.’
“People who saw our coverage of Indigenous issues always wondered why we also included the voices of those who questioned their very humanity,” said Emma Geal, a managing editor at CBC News.
“That was just the beginning, and from now on we’ll be showing all sides of every story,” added the Globe and Mail’s Walter Balts.
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Although the group was unable to name a single pro-cancer advocate off the tops of their heads, they said they would ensure that newsrooms scour the darkest regions of the internet to find one, dust off and drag in to speak to.
While the coverage is expected to be the most multi-sided in the world, the news editors said that they planned to add even more quotation marks on words like racism and genocide but only in stories about Indigenous people.
