Bringing the reporters along ensures positive stories in the media.
The reporters get to rape the women with their cameras and feel like heroes.
Seriously most media here in Canada are worthles sacks of shit.
Winnipeg is a pigsty of corruption but nothing gets into the papers. The media here can be bought off with a free sandwich. Meanwhile Winnipeg taxpayers are on the hook for a $200 million dollar police Hq, $350 million dollar museum of human rights, firehalls that cost tens of millions over budget and nobody is responsible. And nobody says anything.