Juno News - August 08, 2022


Media goes silent after bombshell story about travel mandates

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Common Sense Rupa Subramanya Justin Trudeau Andrew Barry Weiss Harrison
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In this episode, Andrew and Harrison talk about a bombshell report from Rupa Subramanya on the government's travel ban on the unvaccinated, and why no one else in the mainstream media has picked up the story.

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00:00:00.000 Let's talk about just complete media ignorance of some very large stories. The vaccine mandates,
00:00:06.560 the vaccine passports, there have been some glimmers of hope in coverage where reporters,
00:00:11.600 especially the longer the pandemic has gone on, have doggedly advanced on this story. The questions
00:00:18.180 about why are mask policies so inconsistent and why do we need these mandates in Canada and not
00:00:23.040 elsewhere? But Rupa Subramanya, our colleague at True North, who also writes for a variety of other
00:00:29.160 publications, had a tremendous piece in Barry Weiss's substat Common Sense, which delved into
00:00:35.720 federal court documents in an ongoing trial. And these were documents filed by the court
00:00:40.580 or filed by the Canadian government in court in its defense of a lawsuit against the vaccine mandate
00:00:46.920 for air travel. And what she found is that the travel ban for the unvaccinated had no basis in
00:00:54.300 science. The panel that was responsible for putting it together was stalked by people that
00:01:00.280 didn't have scientific backgrounds, didn't have health backgrounds. The person in charge was a
00:01:05.040 bureaucrat, not a public health expert. And really this suggests, as Rupa finds in the documents and
00:01:11.320 says in her piece, that it was all just a matter of politics and not science. So certainly something
00:01:17.280 we've talked about in the past, Harrison. But the big story here on a secondary front has been that
00:01:23.320 three days later, not a single journalist that I've seen in Canada has picked up the torch and
00:01:28.460 moved on with this story. Well, this is what Canadians, I think, should come to expect, Andrew.
00:01:34.040 Independent journalists, journalists like Rupa, journalists like the ones we have here at True
00:01:39.060 North and other outlets that are actually, that have actually been holding the government to account
00:01:43.100 this entire time, continue to do their job. And the mainstream journalists, the legacy media
00:01:47.100 journalists, who many of them are on the take from the government, consistently failed to hold the
00:01:51.420 government to account. So they've, they've, this is just no different, really. This is a huge bombshell
00:01:56.400 report that Rupa wrote in Common Sense. And basically it just, it kind of confirms what we've
00:02:02.920 all known, Andrew, which is this is all based in politics. Justin Trudeau seems to have a different
00:02:08.080 definition of science than the rest of the world. And Canadians, because of that, have had to suffer.
00:02:12.640 So when, when Rupa publishes this post, not only does the legacy media not do anything,
00:02:18.300 sit on their hands. And basically by doing that covering for Trudeau, we, you actually see,
00:02:23.900 maybe it's not the journalists themselves, but you see people who are supportive of the prime
00:02:27.320 minister attacking journalists like Rupa for making the truth and getting the truth out to Canadians.
00:02:32.760 This is the biggest story that we've been living under. These draconian travel measures that have,
00:02:38.700 that have been leveled against Canadians is the most important thing that we need to be holding the
00:02:43.660 government to account over. And of course, what, what, what else should we expect? And the legacy
00:02:48.460 media is not going to do a single bit of reporting. I will say, I, I would put money on this, that in
00:02:53.460 two weeks, two to three weeks, journalists in the legacy media, maybe like the national post might
00:02:58.780 eventually come around to the story. It might eventually write the story, but of course not give
00:03:03.280 any credit to the journalist that broke the story. Where have we seen that before? And of course,
00:03:07.800 just pretend as though they're breaking news that has been broken for weeks already. It's the,
00:03:12.220 these repealing these mandates, repealing these measures that are not based in science
00:03:16.300 is the most important issue facing Canadians right now. At least I believe that. And I'm pretty 0.86
00:03:20.800 confident that most Canadians agree with me. So the idea that when journalists break this news and MSM 0.78
00:03:26.680 journalists, legacy media journalists with bigger audiences and bigger platforms do nothing. It's
00:03:31.960 ridiculous. Yeah. And I'm a big Substack fan. I've got my own Substack. So I'll put in a shameless plug 0.92
00:03:39.380 there. You can subscribe to that at andrewlawton.substack.com. And I'm a subscriber to Common
00:03:45.300 Sense, the idea of Common Sense and also the Substack Common Sense. And the thing that I find
00:03:51.240 fascinating here is that it's another one of these examples where Canadians are forced to look outside
00:03:56.080 their own country to get coverage that journalists inside the country should be putting forward. Now,
00:04:02.140 obviously there are some, sometimes when stories just happen to get broken outside, like the
00:04:07.300 Trudeau blackface photo, the initial one came from Time magazine, just because of a personal connection
00:04:12.320 between the Time reporter and the person who leaked the photo. And in this case, Rupa's Canadian.
00:04:17.580 She's got a relationship with Common Sense. It was a great platform for it. Fine. But you look at the
00:04:22.840 Freedom Convoy and one of the themes I've talked about in my book, and we've talked about it at True
00:04:26.680 North, is that by and large, Canadians were better served by outlets like Fox News and GB News and even
00:04:33.020 the New York Times on a couple of occasions than they were by Canadian legacy media outlets. And
00:04:39.320 for all that we see a government that likes to harp on the importance of Canadian content and Canadian
00:04:44.300 media, Canadian media needs to step up because a lot of these stories are only getting covered by
00:04:48.980 outlets outside the country.