Juno News - July 11, 2022


Another stolen True North story in the CBC

Topics
CBC embarrassment
Mentioned
Andrew True North Elizabeth Warren Mike Tyson Harrison Antifa
The CBC steals another True North story James Topp isn’t finished his monumental march across Canada

Episode Stats


Length

3 minutes

Words per minute

196.93

Word count

697

Sentence count

46


Summary

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In this episode, we take a look at why the CBC is failing to keep up with the times, and why the alternative media site TrueNorth is the only one getting their news from the CBC. We also talk about how the CBC needs to do their job better, and what they should do about it.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Let's take a turn to, this is, I think, an interesting story, and there's a story beneath
00:00:04.760 the story here. So you may have seen this week, CBC reported on this story about new military
00:00:12.040 dress standards, that hair coloring, face tattoos will be permitted under new military dress rules.
00:00:18.240 Now, I would say there's nothing more professional than a member of the armed forces with a giant
00:00:22.980 face tattoo. Like, just think of Mike Tyson at CFB Borden doing push-ups. Like, that is the
00:00:28.380 quintessential Canadian experience right there. But what I find interesting is that CBC readers
00:00:33.520 learned about this on July 5th, 2022. Harrison, spike the football here. When did True North
00:00:39.120 readers learn about this? April 14th. So CBC is only just a little late, Andrew. They're only just a few
00:00:45.600 months late to this story about the military. True North broke the story months ago. And to anyone's,
00:00:53.520 well, to everyone's surprise, Andrew, the CBC failed to mention True North, failed to credit
00:00:58.420 True North for breaking the story months earlier. It might be because they're just embarrassed about
00:01:02.220 their lack of serious journalism. They're, they're, they must be embarrassed about the fact that they
00:01:07.300 just can't seem to stay on top of the news. Yeah, and this is not exclusively a problem that affects
00:01:14.200 True North. The CBC is kind of notorious for this. And they have so much funding. They have so many
00:01:19.400 staff. They have so many resources. They have a level of funding that most commercial newsrooms
00:01:24.260 in this country would kill for. Yet they still rely so heavily on the work done by other newsrooms,
00:01:30.860 done by reporters for Post Media, for the Toronto Star, and increasingly for a lot of independent and
00:01:36.740 local outlets too. Well, what good is a public broadcaster, a broadcaster that the, the, the only
00:01:43.560 job of that broadcaster is to give Canadians the news. What good is it if a small group like we are
00:01:51.320 at True North are beating CBC months early to a story that is news at the time. And only the CBC
00:01:57.540 only reports as news. Once the government itself pushes out the press release. I mean, it's, it's
00:02:02.560 journalism by press release for the CBC. It's been that way for years now, and they're really not doing
00:02:07.700 anything, uh, to give Canadians value. All you really have to do at this point is abandon the CBC
00:02:13.940 and just basically look at what, watch True North, watch other alternative media sites, because not
00:02:19.080 only, uh, is the CBC not getting their news from us, because if they were, they'd be quicker. It wouldn't,
00:02:23.680 it wouldn't take them months to write our story. They're waiting on the government to release the
00:02:27.800 news. So if the CBC isn't going to release the news, they're not going to do it before the government
00:02:32.440 press release writes it for them. Then what good, what good is there? And, and we've seen the CBC do
00:02:37.680 this constantly. True North wrote a story in February, uh, about the NDP, an NDP candidate
00:02:44.300 using homophobic slurs and promoting Antifa. And the CBC took our story, posted it a few days later.
00:02:50.680 Then True North wrote a story also about an NDP MP and a liberal MPs, uh, questioning their,
00:02:56.840 their indigenous claims. So an NDP MP calls out a liberal MP for not being indigenous enough,
00:03:01.480 sort of a Canadian Elizabeth Warren story there. We wrote that on April and then CBC takes it
00:03:07.020 three or four days later and writes the same story, of course, failing to credit us. So
00:03:11.700 we've seen it happen before. We see it happen many times. Again, it's not going to change at this
00:03:16.260 point. How long do we expect or how much, how much rope we want to give the CDC to fix their act,
00:03:20.740 to get their, you know, get their, get their act together. It's not going to happen. So at what
00:03:25.520 point, Andrew, do we just give up and say, look, these, these journalists just don't know how to do
00:03:29.980 their job properly. All they have to do is just read True North.