More information has come out, and while it is a major fuck up for CTV, this had nothing to do with them "lying for Trudeau."
It is more of how CTV cut out veteran leaders in the newsroom, and an attempt to make the clip keep context by making it shorter....and then someone else re-edited it and it removed the context. Here is the run down of what happened, according to this column in the Star:
The Conservative leader exploited a genuine journalistic error for partisan gain. The real tragedy of the story is what Bell did next.
www.thestar.com
The narrative starts on the morning of Sunday, Sept. 22, when CTV reporter Cristina Tenaglia, in Toronto, and Derek Thacker, a video editor in Ottawa, started working together on an item for that night’s CTV National News broadcast. The piece was based partly on an interview that Procurement Minister Jean-Yves Duclos did on CTV’s Question Period, which aired that day, in which he warned that if the NDP did not vote with the government, it would jeopardize a plan to provide dental care to low-income Canadians.
At 11:30 a.m., Tenaglia, who is known to be a stickler for details, sent Thacker an “elements list” that included a clip from Poilievre, in which he said: “That’s why it’s time to put forward a motion for a carbon tax election.” But there was a problem — a 1.5-second blank spot — in the video clip on CTV’s server. Thacker, a 37-year veteran, widely regarded as a talented and resourceful editor, found a way to save the clip, by cutting out “it’s time,” and inserting a phrase from a similar sentence later in the same scrum, “we need.” The new clip was therefore: “That’s why we need to put forward a motion for a carbon tax election.”
That seemed fine. The sense of the sentence was the same. Later in the editing process, though, the last few words, where Poilievre mentioned the carbon tax election, were trimmed, apparently to save time.
On their own, either of those two edits would be defensible. But taken together they created a problem. The final piece left viewers with the false impression that Poilievre was bringing a motion aimed at blocking a dental program.
Basically, it was a major fuck up, but it was not done with the intention of trying to paint PP in a negative light.