Juno News - August 19, 2022


Canada's legacy media slowly dies

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Lisa Laflamme Omar Satchadina David Cochran Poutine Man David Akin
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5 minutes

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1,089

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77

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The slow, sad, and pathetic death by a thousand cuts currently taking place inside Canada's legacy media newsrooms took a big chunk out of one of the biggest newsrooms earlier this week when CTV News fired Lisa Laflamme.

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00:00:00.000 The slow, sad, and pathetic death by a thousand cuts currently taking place inside Canada's 0.81
00:00:06.100 legacy media newsrooms took a big chunk out of one of the biggest newsrooms earlier this week 0.75
00:00:11.900 when CTV News fired Lisa Laflamme, the chief national news anchor at CTV News over at Bell
00:00:18.700 Media. Now, it was a rather unceremonious firing, I have to say, but if you were on Twitter,
00:00:23.860 you would have likely thought that what happened was the biggest news story to ever happen in
00:00:28.280 Canadian media. Now, one of the funnier takeaways from this entire story was that Lisa Laflamme
00:00:33.040 put out a video on Twitter detailing from her side what had happened with the bosses at CTV News.
00:00:38.200 That video on Twitter has over 4.5 million views. That is more views than any one of these legacy
00:00:44.580 media outlets could ever dream of getting if their entire networks depended on it. Nobody could even
00:00:49.780 come close to 4.5 million views on cable news broadcasts. And it happened on social media
00:00:56.480 where independent media outlets like us at True North play. It happened on social media
00:01:01.280 after they had fired their biggest star. Let that sink in for a minute. They got more views on
00:01:06.900 Twitter than they could ever dream of getting on TV. And it happened when they fired their biggest star.
00:01:11.960 Look, you never want to make jokes about someone losing their job. It's really the worst thing that
00:01:15.120 could happen. And that's not what I'm doing here. I'm just pointing out the fact that these legacy
00:01:18.280 media outlets are dying a slow death. The business model that has propped up these corporate media
00:01:23.500 outlets is crumbling. Half of these outlets are on the take from the prime minister. They've been
00:01:27.740 bailed out by a big media slush fund. And the other half are begging for the liberal government's
00:01:33.820 attention. They're begging for them to realize how much good work they're doing to prop up this
00:01:37.880 government. Not once did any of these corporate media journalists ever hold this government to
00:01:42.320 account over COVID. Not once did any of these legacy media journalists tell you the truth about what
00:01:47.400 was going on in Ottawa during the protest. But no, all of a sudden, because the biggest legacy media name
00:01:52.520 in the game gets fired, we all have to pretend as though we support her. We all have to pretend as
00:01:57.600 though we feel bad. Canadians don't trust you guys anymore. They just simply don't. And you've done
00:02:02.700 nothing to try and regain that trust. Independent news, on the other hand, are staffed by not the
00:02:08.320 biggest teacher's pet in a journalism classroom, but by working Canadians. People who actually understand 0.99
00:02:13.320 what real Canadians are going through. That's why they trust independent outlets. And that's why they
00:02:17.660 will never trust legacy media outlets again. Now, when the news dropped that Lisa Laflamme had been
00:02:22.200 fired by CTV, CTV News immediately announced the replacement, Omar Satchadina, a national news
00:02:28.540 correspondent, someone who I think has respect in the legacy media game, but probably not in the rest
00:02:33.380 of Canada because we all know what the rest of Canada thinks about these guys. But nonetheless,
00:02:37.540 Omar Satchadina got the job from Lisa Laflamme. Now, if you're looking at this story from the
00:02:42.020 perspective I was originally, you're probably thinking to yourself, they want to shuffle out the
00:02:45.280 old white voice to bring in a new fresh face that satisfies the lefty box checkers. But actually, 0.82
00:02:50.820 it turns out that with some good reporting from Brian Lilly over at the Toronto Sun,
00:02:55.620 it looks like the story's a bit more different than that. It seems as though Bell Media were
00:03:00.400 struggling to pay the giant salary of their biggest star. That's because these legacy media outlets
00:03:05.360 have a failing business model. They pay way too much money for journalists that nobody reads and
00:03:09.640 nobody watches anymore. So sure enough, sooner or later, all these businesses, all these corporate
00:03:15.180 media businesses are going to end up making the exact same moves. They're going to cut their biggest
00:03:19.160 talent to try and bring in someone cheaper who can do the exact same job. It's not going to impact
00:03:24.400 ratings. They're always going to go down, guys. It's not like you're all of a sudden going to turn
00:03:27.340 the ship around. No Canadian is going to say, actually, I was waiting for this move. I'm going
00:03:31.900 to pick up a cable box now and turn on CTV News primetime. That's not going to happen for you guys.
00:03:36.960 Every single blue check lefty journalist in Canada decided to come out and bash Bell Media. They said,
00:03:42.560 this is a terrible decision. How can they get rid of their biggest star? And they don't even realize,
00:03:47.800 guys, that it's going to be them next. Them on their inflated salaries who aren't producing good
00:03:53.060 enough content to keep these ships alive. The cost cutting is going to continue. So they all came out
00:03:58.240 and they all said Bell Media made a big mistake. They shouldn't have done this. And I wanted to
00:04:02.200 highlight some of these ridiculous tweets. Look, we've got David Cochran over at the CBC. If you remember 0.86
00:04:06.660 David Cochran, Mr. Poutine Man. Well, he writes, my jaw's on the floor. Well, well, if I worked at
00:04:22.520 the CBC and I knew that my company was getting over a billion dollars every single year, my job
00:04:26.440 would be on the floor too. That never happened at the CBC. And we have David Aiken, who only had the
00:04:30.740 very worst things to say about people who protested in Ottawa. He writes, wow, your fans are blindsided
00:04:35.980 too, Lisa. No knock on Omar, but I cannot conceive of the Bell Media spreadsheet jockey that came up
00:04:40.880 with the formula that this was the best business decision for CTV's audience. Nuts. You don't
00:04:45.120 think so, David? Because I can. I can see exactly how this was the best business decision. You can't
00:04:49.420 pay journalists way too much money when all your businesses are failing. It's basic business. Guys,
00:04:54.320 honestly, these legacy media guys, they'll never learn. They are incapable of realizing that Canadians 1.00
00:04:59.980 don't trust them. They don't realize that True North, we're on the rise. Them over at CBC,
00:05:04.680 CTV, Global News, these big corporate cushy jobs, well, they're tanking. And I've talked to a bunch
00:05:10.260 of Canadians about this. They absolutely love it. So enjoy it, guys, because one day it'll be you next.