Food Professor claims CBC, La Presse blacklisted him after media subsidy criticism
Dr. Sylvain Charlebois says CBC/Radio-Canada and their allies quietly froze him out after he criticized taxpayer-funded media. The state broadcaster denies any blacklist.
Dalhousie University food policy expert Dr. Sylvain Charlebois says a Radio-Canada journalist privately told him the public broadcaster was instructed to stop booking him after he criticized government media subsidies—a claim CBC/Radio-Canada categorically denies.
Charlebois, known as the “Food Professor,” alleged on X that a French-language CBC reporter recently told him: “We’re no longer allowed to speak with you,” adding that La Presse was encouraging Radio-Canada journalists to distance themselves because of his criticism of taxpayer-funded media.
The Food Professor@FoodProfessor
Received a call from a French-CBC reporter this week.
Reporter: “I’ve been told that we’re no longer allowed to speak with you, and La Presse is encouraging us to distance ourselves from you because of what you wrote about media subsidies. Is that true?”
Me: “Quite possibly. La
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He later escalated the allegation, claiming the “editorial ties between La Presse and CBC/Radio-Canada are well known in Montreal.”
