Juno News - March 25, 2026


CBC is Panicking

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2 minutes

Words per minute

183.72

Word count

525

Sentence count

12

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1

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In this episode, we talk about the debate that took place in the House of Commons, and the reaction of the legacy media to the fact that free thinking people were allowed to ask questions after the debate. We also talk about why it's so important that we have a free press in the Commons.

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00:00:00.000 the media make the debates so narrow that they're almost irrelevant right so the fact that you do
00:00:05.920 have a bunch of kind of like wild maverick type reporters getting up there willing to ask tough
00:00:11.520 questions and to your point yeah actually mark currently handled pretty well that that kind of
00:00:14.800 showed a bit of his character which again is the point of the debate right so so we have these
00:00:19.520 this stuffy elite class of journalists that want to dictate what the country cares about
00:00:25.600 but the country doesn't really care about those things right and so i think it's just so important
00:00:29.520 that we have the media there and i think it's so telling how the legacy media reacted i have
00:00:33.920 a little montage here as you're going to enjoy this of just how the cbc reacted how the journalists
00:00:39.120 just melted down and they just couldn't believe their own eyes that free-thinking people were
00:00:44.400 allowed to ask questions uh let's roll this clip the post-debate scrums were dominated by right-wing
00:00:49.760 media groups who flooded leaders with questions on topics unrelated to the debate i think the
00:00:54.800 debate commission is going to need to be accountable for what's kind of happening here.
00:00:59.280 They've opened up the scrums and the press access to a bunch of groups who sometimes are registered
00:01:03.920 charities or have been defined by their owner as not actually a journalistic organization
00:01:08.560 or have been ruled by the federal court to not be a journalistic organization.
00:01:12.400 True North is a very right-wing website and there have been issues in the past with who gets
00:01:20.800 allowed into these scrums and who's allowed to ask questions of the leaders. The Debates Commission
00:01:26.080 was the one who decided that these people were allowed to come in and ask these kinds of questions.
00:01:31.840 At one point, when some of those last questions came up, I just checked, yeah, no, we're in Canada. 0.52
00:01:37.840 Imagine the chutzpah, that those losers, those government regime journalists, all taking a
00:01:43.600 paycheck from Karani, by the way, imagine the audacity that they get to decide what is or isn't
00:01:49.280 a relevant question what we i mean hey ask your own questions we'll ask our i would never say
00:01:55.980 how dare the cbc talk about global warming i would just roll my eyes but they they fancy
00:02:01.860 themselves something superior hey i saw an ad sort of an old-timey uh instagram channel of of things
00:02:10.280 in canadiana in the past and it was an ad in 1974 for cbc's the national and back in 1974 when
00:02:18.940 Canada's population was about half of what it is now. They were getting 2 million views a night.
00:02:25.160 They were boasting about this in their ad for The National. These days, the numbers are so low,
00:02:29.120 they don't release them. The last numbers I saw were that the CBC's The National gets about
00:02:33.680 250,000 views. So Canada's population has doubled, but the viewership of CBC has fallen from 2
00:02:40.900 million to 250,000. And I think that the smaller it gets, the more strident they become and the
00:02:49.620 more Canadians just don't even pay attention.