Greg Wycliffe - June 06, 2021


This CBC Report Slamming the Epoch Times Didn't Age Well


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In this episode, Greg reacts to a report from The Epoch Times about the coronavirus and the communist party of China. The paper argues that the virus was created in a lab by the Chinese military and named it after them.

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00:00:00.640 What is journalism? It's my belief that journalism is when you do research and you find out the truth
00:00:07.680 and the facts and the information and present it in a compelling way. I'm a Canadian. My name is
00:00:13.720 Greg. In this video, I'm going to be reacting to a CBC News report in regards to the Epoch Times.
00:00:20.160 I actually received the Epoch Times in my mailbox. I am not a subscriber to them either. They've been
00:00:26.580 advertising a lot. I've been seeing a lot of that on YouTube as well. And in this edition,
00:00:32.760 it's all about the coronavirus. And they mention, they say some pretty accusatory things towards the
00:00:39.920 communist Chinese party. And what I did appreciate is they kind of have a big timeline in the center
00:00:47.600 spread of the newspaper that shows the development of how countries did prepare and respond to the
00:00:55.180 COVID-19 crisis and how certain countries like Canada didn't really prepare or respond that
00:01:01.140 quickly in the grand scheme of the timeline of things. And I'm hoping because CBC is state-funded
00:01:08.820 journalism, I'm hoping that they're going to do their journalistic duty and break down the Epoch
00:01:14.520 Times and the information in it to show us why it is so untrue or why it truly is not accurate or is
00:01:23.220 misleading. But let's watch this. Let's watch this clip here from the CBC all about the Epoch Times.
00:01:30.880 It calls itself North America's fastest growing newspaper, the Epoch Times. It is publishing
00:01:37.460 misleading information about the coronavirus and it's being delivered straight to mailboxes right
00:01:43.220 across Canada. That's making some recipients uncomfortable.
00:01:52.040 I love the CBC. It's making some recipients uncomfortable. Tonight, it's nine. Canadians feel
00:02:00.340 uncomfortable. Right off the top, they're saying misleading.
00:02:02.880 ...about the coronavirus. Publishing. Misleading information.
00:02:05.960 Misleading information. Okay, so it's misleading. We're saying it's misleading. Hopefully, we're going to find out
00:02:11.180 why it's misleading. And oh, man, these uncomfortable Canadians. This sounds like an exciting story. 1.00
00:02:17.000 Uncomfortable. Katie Nicholson looks into it for us today.
00:02:22.540 Lisa Armstrong doesn't subscribe to the Epoch Times, but like thousands of Canadians,
00:02:26.860 she got a copy in her mailbox.
00:02:30.500 I'm sorry.
00:02:31.220 Look how Canadian this is. Lisa walking to her mailbox to check the mail. We're on like a side
00:02:44.440 street somewhere in like rural Canada by the looks of it. Tonight at nine, Lisa checks her mail. Oh,
00:02:50.580 my God. She found uncomfortable information in the mailbox. Oh, man. I wanted to make this video
00:02:58.020 because when I first watched this, I was power laughing on the floor. I was, I could not breathe. I
00:03:05.060 just, I just, it was just so funny to me. Lisa Armstrong doesn't subscribe to the Epoch Times,
00:03:09.860 but like thousands of... What is, what is this? What is this? What? Clearly staged, but anyway.
00:03:16.580 ...of Canadians, she got a copy in her mailbox. But it did seem to allude to conspiracy theories,
00:03:23.380 like, you know, maybe it was manufactured. This virus was manufactured in a lab. Well, 0.52
00:03:27.780 no, we know scientifically that's just not true.
00:03:30.420 Thank you, Lisa. Finally, some like we, I'm assuming Lisa is a scientist or knows about the,
00:03:38.820 you know, virology of COVID-19 and how scientifically we know it was bat soup. I didn't, I did not realize 1.00
00:03:46.420 that. I didn't know that it was scientifically proved. I guess, I guess we know now. Thank you,
00:03:50.580 CBC for clearing that up for me. That's scientifically we know. I'm looking forward
00:03:56.740 to when they debunk why the information from the Epoch Times is wrong. But thank you for clarifying
00:04:02.260 that, Lisa. The special edition of the paper explores the idea that COVID-19 was created as
00:04:08.980 a bioweapon in a lab by the Chinese military and argues that the virus should be named after the 0.96
00:04:14.580 communist party of China. And it really feels racist and inflammatory. And right now we're
00:04:26.900 of course, of course it seems racist. It seems, it seems racist. I mean, this is really dumb. This is
00:04:35.780 like a really dumb take, I think, because they're accusing a political party and a communist party
00:04:44.340 of doing something malicious. The Epoch Times are accusing a communist party. You know, the ideas they
00:04:50.500 have being dangerous. This is the whole idea that they have ill intentions. And Lisa's like, this is
00:04:57.860 racist. They're accusing this coming. It's like, no, Lisa. See, China's a big place. There's a lot of
00:05:04.180 different Chinese people who live in China and some of them are part of the communist Chinese party.
00:05:10.420 That does not mean all Chinese people. Like there's, do we not see how ignorant that is? I mean, 1.00
00:05:18.900 anyway, anyway, but hey, then again, this is Lisa. Lisa knows scientifically it is not,
00:05:24.660 it was not made in the bio lab. We know scientifically that it's bat soup. So you know what? I, I shouldn't 1.00
00:05:30.020 question Lisa. She seems to be all knowing. Um, you know, she is on the CBC checking her mail after all.
00:05:38.340 We're all scared. Playing on those fears is a very dangerous thing to do at this time.
00:05:46.100 Playing on those fears is a dangerous thing to do at this time.
00:05:48.260 It calls itself North America's fastest growing newspaper, the Epoch Times. It is publishing
00:05:55.700 misleading information about the coronavirus and it's being delivered straight to mailboxes right
00:06:01.140 across Canada. That's making some recipients uncomfortable. Katie. Oh my God. Yeah. Man,
00:06:07.780 playing up the fear, that would be a terrible thing to, terrible, terrible thing to do that,
00:06:11.780 wouldn't it? Terrible thing. Playing on those fears is a very dangerous thing to do at this time.
00:06:19.300 We're protecting this postal worker's identity. He says because of its subject matter,
00:06:24.100 he and his colleagues aren't comfortable delivering. They're not comfortable. Canadians are not comfortable 1.00
00:06:30.500 with this information. And I can't wait until they reveal why this information is so misleading.
00:06:36.500 Let's see how uncomfortable this thing is. Epoch Times. It makes me feel like, you know,
00:06:41.300 we're facing, humanity is facing an existential crisis and I'm being forced to hand out weapons
00:06:46.100 in a cage fight. Oh my God. Okay. First of all, this guy sounds like he's crying. I feel like,
00:06:54.340 I feel like, you know, we're facing, humanity is facing an existential crisis and I'm being forced to
00:07:00.820 handle weapons in a cage fight. I'm being forced to handle weapons in a cage fight.
00:07:09.060 Wow. Wow. Uh, this is really making people uncomfortable. Thankfully, hopefully CBC is going
00:07:17.460 to tell us why these Epoch Times is like weapons in a cage fight because apparently it's misleading.
00:07:23.460 They've told us it's misleading. So I can't wait to tell us about how factually inaccurate the
00:07:28.100 information is. Let's keep watching. The Epoch Times is published by Falun Gong supporters, 0.92
00:07:33.540 the spiritual dissident Chinese group that has locked horns with China's ruling communist party
00:07:39.460 for decades. Media watchers say. Okay. So they're known to have being critical of Chinese communists,
00:07:47.380 the Chinese communist party. So, okay. I mean, I guess that would make sense because it sounds like
00:07:56.100 based on the Hong Kong protest that happened recently. It was the largest protest in human
00:08:01.220 history. Um, it seems like there is an issue with press freedom in communist China. So, I mean,
00:08:09.300 I think it would kind of make sense that the Epoch Times exists to be critical of the communist party of
00:08:14.180 China. I think that kind of makes, that makes sense to me. I don't know. So let's see why apparently 0.95
00:08:21.060 these, these, these people were lying or it's misleading information. I'm waiting for it.
00:08:25.220 Say it's not clear where its funding comes from. And as a publication, it's hard to classify.
00:08:32.180 Ooh. Ooh. Ooh. See, hard to classify. That might, that doesn't sound, that doesn't mean anything
00:08:40.260 to the average person. It's hard to classify. For me, like what I hear is, oh, you couldn't pin
00:08:48.180 them with anything. You couldn't find any factual inaccuracies. You couldn't find anything that was
00:08:54.500 wrong. And if you, if, cause if the CBC, if anybody were to find something in the, in the Epoch
00:09:00.820 Times that was a flagrant lie or miss, like truly misleading or truly like inaccurate information,
00:09:10.260 not well-researched or not accurate or false or a lie or fake news, I think they would have put it
00:09:16.340 in here. The fact that they said it's hard to classify, that basically means we couldn't really
00:09:21.300 catch them with anything that's actually makes us allowed to, you know, say a certain thing about them
00:09:27.620 because, you know, that would be libel. That would be slanderous if they were to kind of like call
00:09:33.300 them fake news when it's not. So the fact that they said it's hard to classify to me, that means,
00:09:38.740 oh, we couldn't really find anything to accuse these people of that's actually like lying or, you know,
00:09:45.860 wrong information. So that's not so good. Not so good. When you have an outlet that always has one
00:09:54.260 position on one particular story or country or issue that or, or newspaper, that's not journalism.
00:10:03.460 And so it's hard to say, you know, is it propaganda? So, so I love how we get a clip from somebody.
00:10:11.220 You don't even know who this is there. Hey, we're just cutting away to somebody that always has one
00:10:16.500 position on one particular story or country or issue. I kind of like how the CBC is like never
00:10:24.100 really that critical of Justin Trudeau and always really critical of conservatives. Huh.
00:10:31.300 Interesting. That's not journalism. It's not journalism. Oh, it's. And so it's hard to say,
00:10:36.180 you know, is it propaganda? Propaganda. So what's interesting about that statement is
00:10:41.060 I would have met, I don't live in China. I've never lived in, of course I don't live in China,
00:10:45.860 but I've never lived in China. And I feel as though like if, if there was a communist Chinese
00:10:53.620 party that ruled the country, I feel like it would really make sense. Given the Hong Kong protest,
00:11:00.900 given the like lack of freedoms that citizens have, I feel like, you know, being consistently critical
00:11:06.660 of those in power, you know, I feel like that kind of would make sense. Calling it like propaganda
00:11:14.420 outright. Of course, people are going to be biased. I can agree with that. I can agree that, you know,
00:11:17.940 propaganda does exist. But I feel like in this scenario of living in a communist country,
00:11:24.500 the fact that there is this dissident voice that is being critical of them. I mean, I think it's very
00:11:30.340 interesting because the Chinese Communist Party creates their propaganda. You know, I mean,
00:11:35.140 I'm sure there's people making propaganda all over the place. I might even be watching propaganda
00:11:39.780 right now. How should Canadians view the information in the paper?
00:11:46.900 Yes, CBC. I love it. How should Canadians feel about this? Please, CBC, tell me. Tell me what to think.
00:11:55.940 Tell me how to feel. I can't think for myself. I'm just some Canadian. I don't know what's going on.
00:12:01.940 I mean, I'm uncomfortable right now. Tell me. Tell me how to feel. CBC, please tell me how to feel.
00:12:08.260 The information in the paper. This professor says, while some of it is accurate,
00:12:12.900 readers should keep this in mind. This is an anti-Chinese government media outlet.
00:12:19.620 So you have to be careful that it could be some exaggerations.
00:12:25.460 Okay. So there's some exaggerations, although some of it is accurate. We're almost at the end of the
00:12:31.060 video. So I, I don't know. I was, I was looking for the researched intel. I want to hear why it's wrong.
00:12:40.660 Tell me why the Epoch Times is wrong. I haven't heard anything as to why I've heard people talk about
00:12:45.700 propaganda. I've heard people allude to conspiracy theories. I've heard a lot of uncomfortable
00:12:51.620 Canadians. It's very problematic. But in terms of the actual information, the actual research
00:12:59.620 on what they're talking about, there hasn't been one bit in this whole two minutes actually talking
00:13:06.500 about any facts or info on the events and what was actually published. It's, it's, it's hard to
00:13:13.700 classify apparently. Email to CBC news. The Epoch Times says it stands by the work that it publishes.
00:13:20.900 As for Canada post, it says it is legally obligated to deliver the paper. And if people don't like it,
00:13:26.180 they can always drop it in the recycling bin. Oof. Oof. Did the Canada post actually say that? Hey,
00:13:34.900 we're legally obligated to send this to you, but if you, if you don't want it,
00:13:38.100 you can just throw it in the recycling bin. And, um, wow. Katie Nicholson, CBC news, Toronto.
00:13:46.500 There it is folks. There it is. I mean, I asked at the beginning, what is journalism? Pretty sure
00:13:52.660 journalism is when you do the research and you find out the factual accuracies or inaccuracies
00:13:58.660 of information and present it in a compelling way. The CBC here has compelled, has created a
00:14:04.020 compelling story to basically say that the Epoch Times is propaganda. You should throw it in the trash.
00:14:09.780 They did, they were pretty short on, you know, actual details on why it's false information.
00:14:17.940 And because it's hard to classify, I don't know. It's so it's, they weren't lying. They were lying.
00:14:26.100 Like it's, it's just very, ah, man, it's very interesting. I think. Anyway, let me know if
00:14:34.260 you liked this video. I, uh, like I, as I said, I really wanted to make this because when I watched
00:14:39.460 this clip originally, I was rolling on the floor laughing. I thought it was so funny from the opening
00:14:45.620 clip of the, oh, well, I feel uncomfortable. Oh, I'm checking my mail. I, I, I just feel like it's
00:14:51.140 really silly, but, uh, this is what, um, 1.6 is at $1.8 billion of taxpayer money gets us. It gets us
00:14:59.860 this, uh, yeah. Um, I don't know. Is this useful? Is this video even, even useful to anyone other than
00:15:08.820 telling people, Hey, you're uncomfortable, throw it in the trash. Don't read information that isn't
00:15:15.300 ours. Okay. That's propaganda. We're not propaganda. That's not, that's propaganda. And we are not
00:15:22.260 propaganda. Okay. We love China. Thanks for watching until next time. We'll talk to you soon.