Juno News - An outrageous week for the CBC

00:00:00.000 hey and welcome along to another edition of fake news Friday yes it is Friday February 3rd sifting

00:00:16.360 through the blizzard of lies staying afloat in the whirlpool of deception and dishonesty

00:00:21.600 I am Andrew Lawton here to navigate the week that was through the lens of debunking the fake

00:00:26.980 rejoined as not as always but as usually with Harrison Faulkner Harrison how has the week been

00:00:32.640 good sir the week's been pretty good and I have to say the fake news Friday intro just keeps getting

00:00:37.200 honed in on and it keeps getting better I will say though my week was going well Andrew until I woke

00:00:42.200 up this morning and it was negative 18 in Toronto I could really use some climate change these days

00:00:47.360 I saw someone say that whenever it's cold out it's always the weather whenever it's too hot out it's

00:00:52.620 always climate well seriously this is getting a bit ridiculous at this point I could really use

00:00:57.240 a little bit of climate change this morning yeah I'd actually hoped that the weather forecast was

00:01:02.660 going to be fake news but alas my car this morning had several inches of snow so that was how I started

00:01:08.920 my day but let's get right into the thick of it here one thing you could always rely on is media

00:01:15.920 wanting more government money this is the perennial story of subsidy once you subsidize something it will

00:01:22.060 never have a life for itself outside of that subsidized regime Canadian newspapers are being

00:01:28.880 threatened we hear so what do we have to do bring on the government this is a an op-ed that was in

00:01:34.840 CBC that says monopoly capitalism is plundering Canadian newspapers it's actually about the competition

00:01:42.920 bureau that needs to step in and start breaking up some of these big chains part of this is of course

00:01:48.100 that Post Media the largest newspaper company in Canada just announced it's going to be doing several

00:01:53.400 staff cuts I don't want to understate it here it's actually quite a significant workforce reduction

00:01:59.040 after this company has already had to do this time and time again in recent years they're also going to be

00:02:04.360 selling off properties but the answer to this is that well monopoly capitalism is the problem not an old

00:02:10.620 business model yeah Andrew you can always count on the CBC whenever they discuss stories like the

00:02:15.940 failing local media right the fact that Canadians can no longer get accurate news about where they

00:02:21.660 live wherever it is in the country the answer the antidote to this problem is always more regulation

00:02:27.360 more government it's not just more funding from the government it's actually demanding that the

00:02:31.980 government steps in and engages with these companies and stops them from getting bigger or stops them

00:02:37.380 from monopolizing I think everyone can get behind that message but it is funny Andrew how it always

00:02:42.100 comes back to wanting more money from the taxpayer and wanting more government regulation like that's

00:02:47.920 the problem with Canadian media here the fact that we don't give enough of our money to journalists

00:02:53.100 it's it's laughable especially coming from the CBC yeah and when I mentioned the call for subsidy here I

00:02:58.960 should mention that Patricia Elliott's primary goal here is to break up the so-called monopolies but 1.00

00:03:05.620 the other side of this is that she's talking about the importance of Bill C-18 which is the bill that

00:03:11.120 forces the social media companies to subsidize news a government mandated subsidy she heralds the local

00:03:18.280 journalism initiative again another program where the government bankrolls individual reporters and she 0.88

00:03:24.340 says that yeah all of that's fine we need it but the media concentration problem is there so I think the

00:03:30.760 challenge is that they have a very narrow conception of what media is supposed to be and let's face it

00:03:36.720 you have independent media organizations like rebel like true north even like Canada land it's not

00:03:42.040 exclusively for media that has a more conservative editorial bent are growing it's the traditional

00:03:49.400 business model the legacy media that right now is in such dire straits so I think that the answer to

00:03:56.600 this is not going to come from some government bureaucrat stepping in it's going to come from

00:04:01.380 innovation and I don't know why no one who rings their hands about the state of media actually

00:04:07.020 entertains that discussion and even in this CBC article Andrew Elliott the author of this piece

00:04:13.120 talks about and I think she's a journalism professor she talks about how good independent journalism

00:04:18.580 is actually being done good local stories is they're being done and they're not being done by

00:04:24.140 these large corporate media giants like the national post post media uh toronto star all of these big

00:04:30.380 outlets that we know are failing so she admits that that is happening from independent small outlets

00:04:35.660 yet the yet the of course the the antidote is of is just having the government step in and force

00:04:40.960 social media giants to pay these smaller companies uh there's no recognition in this article of course as

00:04:47.140 you mentioned Andrew about the success of independent outlets like us at true north we rely on donors to

00:04:51.680 fund our journalism and that journalism is getting better and better we're breaking exclusive stories

00:04:55.920 it feels like all the time now like always Andrew the antidote from the CBC is more government more

00:05:02.640 regulation who could have guessed yeah I mean there is this weird impulse and sometimes people on the

00:05:08.540 right are all okay with going in and busting up so-called monopolies but I think the big challenge here

00:05:13.800 is that post media is not a monopoly there is actually a quite diverse media landscape in this country

00:05:20.180 and sure it's consolidated into a few different players but there's no barrier to entry apart from

00:05:26.640 capital of someone else saying we are going to start a newspaper chain we are going to buy off a title

00:05:31.760 and again taking aim at a monopoly or a so-called pseudo monopoly whatever they're calling post media

00:05:38.260 here doesn't actually make sense when that company is not being successful like so it's not like you're

00:05:44.540 going after standard oil which is just so giant it's raking in all the profits it's like it's not working

00:05:49.760 so right now I think that's proof that the problem is not monopoly capitalism so in any case we will move on

00:05:56.400 from there for now but let's talk about why media needs to innovate and we look no further of course than our old

00:06:03.140 friends at the CBC the paramount public broadcaster so significant so integral to our lives deserving of 1.4 billion

00:06:11.220 dollars a year in taxpayer money and without whom we would never know about the dietary habits of New York

00:06:17.340 vegans yes a fridge too far living sustainably in New York City by unplugging appliances a CBC

00:06:25.060 pickup of an Associated Press story about a Manhattan vegan named Josh Spodek who has decided to get rid of

00:06:34.040 his refrigerator in his Greenwich Village apartment and go packaging free and living virtually grid free

00:06:41.140 and all of this is well and good you may be wondering why is this of interest to Canadian

00:06:45.460 Canadian consumers and why should Canadian taxpayers have to pay for this and I still after reading this

00:06:51.800 do not know anything apart from how Josh Spodek decides to eat his vegetables 1.4 billion dollars Andrew it's

00:06:59.580 like the number keeps going up almost monthly last I swear almost last episode we were talking 1.2

00:07:05.220 but the reason CBC gets the money is because they have a mandate they have a mandate given to them by

00:07:10.540 parliament for this money and let me just read what that mandate says and then we can see how this story

00:07:15.520 about New York City sustainable living from one hipster in New York City matches up with this mandate the

00:07:21.600 mandate for the CBC the reason why they get 1.4 billion dollars from us is to inform enlighten and entertain

00:07:28.800 to contribute to the development of a shared national consciousness and identity to reflect the

00:07:34.880 regional and cultural diversity of Canada and to contribute to the development of Canadian talent

00:07:39.480 and culture this story has absolutely nothing to do with the CBC mandate and yet it just gets put

00:07:47.260 out there and it's like oh you know we're just we're just trying to reach our daily quota of articles

00:07:51.140 Andrew we're just going to talk about this New York City hipster without a fridge because that is

00:07:56.000 exactly what Canadians pay us to do it's it's it's hilarious really I mean I'm not even getting I'm

00:08:02.900 not even gonna get upset about this it's just funny at this point I pointed this out on Twitter a few

00:08:08.220 days ago and I was like you know why would we at all care about this was basically the subtext of

00:08:13.420 my tweet and a few people pointed out something that I had missed initially which is that keeping

00:08:18.140 up on all the latest trends in New York is probably tremendously relevant to the CEO of CBC

00:08:23.520 Catherine Tate who you may recall lives in New York she has a 5.4 million dollar home in Brooklyn

00:08:30.520 a little bit of a ways from Greenwich Village but not too far if you take the metro so perhaps the

00:08:36.040 New York City coverage is just to keep Catherine Tate happy over in the remote head office in New 1.00

00:08:42.000 York City there yeah that's great just a little bit of top-down editorial control by Catherine Tate

00:08:48.060 saying you know we're not we're not covering my local stories enough guys we're covering all of your

00:08:52.080 local stories what about my local journalism this is my local journalism initiative that's what

00:08:56.940 Catherine Tate is saying we need to get these hipsters in New York City more coverage for their 0.63

00:09:00.680 refrigerator-less sustainable living incredible you know and for those who wanted to know I guess

00:09:07.220 we have to do the story justice here and bring it to completion what appliances does he have if not

00:09:12.380 a fridge I know all Canadian news consumers care about this he cooks with an electric pressure

00:09:17.240 cooker occasionally a toaster oven but fear not he powers them with a portable solar panel and a

00:09:24.080 battery pack although he has to bring it up and down 11 flights of stairs to recharge it on the roof of

00:09:30.580 his building every day because the sun don't shine on whatever floor he's on so now you know this is

00:09:36.180 we can all go about our days there uh you know what we have kind of a good CBC theme going on here so

00:09:41.340 let's bring it back to Canada but keep the CBC commentary running here there was a bit of an

00:09:47.380 interesting exchange in the House of Commons foyer this morning when Pierre Polyevre the leader of the

00:09:54.300 Conservatives was commenting on the uh withdrawal by the Liberals of their amendment banning hunting and

00:10:01.380 uh farming rifles and shotguns and Pierre Polyevre was commenting on this and he had this rather unique

00:10:08.180 exchange with a CBC reporter I'll let it speak for itself

00:10:11.580 because we know his agenda he said it right here there are some guns yes that we're going to have to

00:10:21.260 take away from people who are using them to hunt

00:10:24.380 oh yes he'll he'll reintroduce this either in this parliament or he'll dream

00:10:31.260 that god forbid if he ever got a majority he would ram it through

00:10:34.980 that's why the only way law-abiding hunters and farmers will be able to protect their way of life

00:10:42.420 is to elect a conservative majority government led by Pierre Polyevre

00:10:46.580 good faith good faith you are definitely with the CBC you think that anything about

00:10:56.900 this process has been good faith so no like like me you gotta ask obviously you're from the CBC you're

00:11:03.860 trying to help them out of a bad situation but the reality is this he introduced he introduced this

00:11:09.220 amendment he and no it's it's CBC is trying to carry Trudeau's water again I'll give an answer to the

00:11:14.660 question he introduced this amendment with hundreds and hundreds of firearms owned by law-abiding lawful

00:11:23.700 licensed people he then attacked anyone who disagreed he tried to use fear and divide and conquer as he

00:11:30.980 always does and he reiterated his plan in December to ban hunting rifles the only reason Trudeau has put

00:11:38.340 his tail between his legs and pause this plan is because my team and I forced him to do it but if

00:11:46.100 he ever got the chance make no mistake he will ban hunting rifles and that the only way to prevent that

00:11:50.740 is with a conservative majority guy so Andrew it's good to see that we have some politicians now calling

00:11:55.460 out the CBC especially on the conservative benches because for a while they were just kind of going out

00:12:01.220 there uh berating conservatives clearly doing the government's bidding and never really getting

00:12:07.060 called out for it and it is really refreshing to hear Pierre Polyev take a CBC journalist to task

00:12:12.420 and he's right too the idea that this whole that any part of this process was conducted in good faith

00:12:18.180 by the government is it is an absurdity it's a joke there's no way that they can possibly claim that

00:12:23.860 unless of course you're on the take from the government unless of course you receive 1.4 billion dollars

00:12:29.140 from the government and the opposition are now saying they want to defund you that then would

00:12:34.020 make sense for the journalists like this to be talking this way but really it's an absurdity for

00:12:38.500 them to be saying that this was conducted in good faith and thankfully Pierre Polyev put this journalist

00:12:44.580 in his place yeah and I've long said that the politicians in Canada in general certainly

00:12:50.260 conservative politicians need to stop accepting the premises of bad questions and I literally said on my

00:12:56.500 show many months ago that Pierre Polyev should be available to the media but he should take a page

00:13:00.900 out of Ron DeSantis's book and actually flip the script and I'm not saying he was taking my advice

00:13:06.020 because I think he has a bit of that instinct on his own but I was glad he did that and brazenly

00:13:11.300 blatantly said yeah they're carrying water for the liberals right now well it's exactly what Pierre

00:13:15.060 Polyev I think needs to do as the year goes on as as we get closer to 2025 the journalists inside

00:13:22.500 the house of commons the parliamentary press bureau are going to continue to get sharper and sharper with

00:13:27.860 Polyev and until such time as conservatives have a leader that are going to that is going to actually

00:13:32.820 fight them on these issues then it's going to be it's going to be a bloodbath for conservatives the

00:13:37.940 journalists are never going to give them an inch they're certainly not going to treat them the way

00:13:41.540 they treat the liberals right now so it's good to see it it's good to see that the leader of the

00:13:46.900 opposition isn't isn't hiding away from the parliamentary press but instead is taking the fight right to

00:13:52.100 them it's uh it's a good thing to see yes very well said uh let us know what you think in the comments

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00:14:11.140 I'm Andrew Lawton my thanks to Harrison Faulkner have a wonderful weekend everyone and we will see it next time

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Juno News - February 03, 2023

An outrageous week for the CBC

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