In this episode, I talk about how government funded media in Canada is nothing more than an extension of the government, and how the media companies that take most of our tax dollars are funded by the government. I also talk about the fact that the vast majority of the mainstream media are on some form of government payroll.
00:00:00.000There was something funny that happened over the weekend, and in politics and news, I would have called this the big, fun, shiny distraction, okay?
00:00:08.500When you're getting a bit of heat over something serious, quite often a government will throw it a bit of a circus.
00:00:13.420And lo and behold, the Prime Minister went for a run.
00:00:17.000That's fine. It's important to stay fit and stay in shape.
00:00:20.540Who cares if the Prime Minister's going for a run, as long as he's got security with him and the sun's shining, everything's fine.
00:00:27.260but take a look at this we've got headline after headline after headline look at that trail race
00:00:35.420oh look 26th kilometer oh interesting look at him there in the trees again that's nice it's good
00:00:41.440that he can do this but you notice that so the byline says canadian press on most of those
00:00:47.020and you can see the little logo next to it see canadian press right i'm pulling this up because
00:00:54.020it's again something for our viewers and for tax fighters to understand. Been in the business for
00:01:00.680a long time so I've seen how newsrooms change. Quite often when you see most of the mainstream
00:01:06.820media going with the same headline over and over and over again I totally understand that a layman
00:01:13.900who's watching can think do they all have a meeting or something? Like how are they all agreeing to
00:01:19.240cover the same darn thing usually quite often with a similar picture or a similar headline now that
00:01:25.880can happen but i doubt it people are usually too busy to do that here's the thing canadian press0.68
00:01:32.360is a wire service okay what that means is one person writes a story for that entity and whatever
00:01:40.980publication happens to have an account with them can just paste it it's right there that is how
00:01:48.960you see the same story auto-populated basically from Halifax to Tofino okay even the CBC the
00:01:57.300state broadcaster which takes 1.4 billion dollars per year from us okay even the state broadcaster
00:02:03.960look carefully on their print stuff online look at the byline quite often it will say Canadian
00:02:10.820press which brings me to my main point here when it comes to media government-funded media
00:02:16.780It's not just the CBC that is funded by the government, okay?
00:02:21.400Hundreds of millions of dollars are going out the door,
00:02:24.660your money, taxpayers' money, through the government,
00:02:28.240to media organizations, mainstream media organizations.
00:02:33.320The great folks at the very independent media,
00:02:35.820Blacklock's reporter, did the math on this,
00:02:37.760and it shakes out to almost $30,000 of funding per reporter
00:02:44.300for the media companies that take this money from the government, okay?