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 press
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?