Vanity Fair cited peer reviewed publications, government emails and letters, and recorded public speeches by Shi and others who worked with her in Wuhan. This was real investigative journalism. The type we’ve come to expect from our best of the best, like the CBC. This is why journalism matters. It has the power to save the world. Typically a big story like this, that is both true and easily verifiable, becomes the new standard by which all major news outlets begin to speak the same truth. However, this time Vanity Fair’s explosive report was largely ignored. It was exhaustive and relevant to
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