Juno News - The Fake News Awards

00:00:00.000 Hello everyone and welcome to you all. Happy New Year just about. It is December 30th,

00:00:16.500 the anti-penultimate day of the year and this means that we have to wrap up some loose ends

00:00:23.380 before we can head into 2023 and one of them is a biggie. We have to sift through 365 day, well I

00:00:32.200 guess what 363 days but we hope there's not going to be a big bombshell CBC first person story about

00:00:38.540 the racism of power tools or whatever in the next two days. You never know yeah but we have to sift

00:00:45.560 through almost 365 days of fake news and find the very best that are befitting of the annual fake

00:00:54.040 news awards which has become very much a favorite of ours here at True North and also a favorite of

00:00:59.820 those of you watching this show as we know because the Academy of Fake News is a democratic institution.

00:01:05.820 We don't just decide this as some autocratic emergencies act-esque dictatorship. No what we do

00:01:11.780 is put it out to the people to decide what the best of our fake news stories of the year are. We have a

00:01:19.920 top 10 list and we are going to do the countdown right up till number one and our number one fake

00:01:26.520 news story this year actually is something I'm not going to tell you until we get there because that's

00:01:31.420 how a countdown works. So oh my goodness I just did real-time clickbait. Anyway I'm Andrew Lawton joined

00:01:37.160 as always by Harrison Faulkner and we have a doozy to get us started here. What was number 10 this year

00:01:43.740 Harrison? So we talked about this just a couple weeks ago. This was a mask. This was an article

00:01:48.980 written by a mask. Get it Andrew? You see what they're trying to do there right? Very clever stuff. Very

00:01:54.920 I mean this just the height of journalism. Pulitzer worthy quality writing here. So it's written by a mask

00:02:02.400 to talk about some you know talk about the love lost between a mask and its partner. That being us.

00:02:09.280 Very cringeworthy stuff. I mean just to read you a quick quick excerpt from the article. It starts off

00:02:14.020 with this Andrew. It's me your mask. I'm here in between the cushions of your couch or maybe I'm under

00:02:19.240 the bed. It's difficult to tell. It's so dark. I just want to know what happened. Where did our love go?

00:02:24.280 So there you can see this is from the Ottawa Citizen. They tried to they tried to get their they get their

00:02:30.180 fake news story up the ranks. They come in at number 10. So all things considered with the

00:02:34.500 number of fake news you have to deal with Andrew this year. Number 10 is not bad for the Ottawa

00:02:38.020 Citizen. Yeah and I mean having been around some people in the last few weeks since this article

00:02:43.640 was written I don't think many people read or at least heeded Mr. or Mrs. A. Masks work because

00:02:50.280 there still is a fair bit of masklessness out there. But you know so it's just like a

00:02:53.900 Heather Mallet column really. You can write it but no one actually reads it or listens to it.

00:02:57.800 But let's move along to number nine here which is a bit of a big one and one I suspect will

00:03:03.340 escalate a little bit into 2023. Journalists raising issues with mean tweets. Now the Canadian

00:03:11.220 Association of Journalists has done this campaign. They've talked about how there's a quote

00:03:16.640 coordinated campaign of hate against female journalists mostly quote of color. The president

00:03:22.420 of the CAJ said to CTV News this is an organized campaign to threaten and intimidate journalists

00:03:27.780 into silence and undermine the freedom of the press in Canada and this was of course written about

00:03:32.880 by some of those journalists evidently from CTV News. Now when we talked about this in the past I

00:03:39.160 said I don't want to diminish the nastiness that is leveled towards some journalists on Twitter. I see

00:03:44.720 it directed at some. I also see it directed at me. There is just in general a fair bit of nastiness

00:03:49.640 on Twitter directed to anyone who sticks their neck out for anything whether it's in politics and media

00:03:55.320 and I don't think it's right. But I also don't think this victim complex has really been doing

00:04:01.020 anyone any favors because you've got some people that just say I'm going to ignore it I'm going to

00:04:05.500 block it I'm going to move on and then you get other people that seem to really revel in it and

00:04:10.800 that only fuels it because people see they're getting a reaction that doesn't make it right but

00:04:14.840 it's just what happens. Well no exactly and this is just so transparent it's all about trying to

00:04:20.200 demonize the convoy. It's another level of demonizing the freedom convoy. Yeah we can say

00:04:24.620 mean tweets are bad nasty things online are not great no one wants no one wants to do that no

00:04:29.680 one wants to see that but when the CAJ who like I said they purport to stand up for a journalist but

00:04:35.380 they rarely ever stand up for independent journalists they're only really there for

00:04:38.100 mainstream journalists but the CAJ says that from the freedom convoy it's a coordinated campaign

00:04:44.200 of hate specifically targeting female journalists of color. I mean this is just another recycled

00:04:49.620 version of freedom convoy bad the rest good. This is just another classic example of what

00:04:55.140 they're trying to do Andrew and I think a lot of Canadians see right through it no wonder it got

00:04:59.200 it got its way on our top 10 list. Yeah number nine not not exactly winning but still in the running

00:05:06.460 still a nominee and a finalist on the short list so to speak and as I said though I think this story

00:05:12.540 is not yet over I think there's probably going to be another similar version of this in the 2023 list

00:05:18.820 so all I can say to people is to stay tuned. Number eight I know it's your turn but can I do

00:05:24.480 this one? Oh no I was going to give I was going to give the floor to you so Andrew it's all yours

00:05:27.980 go ahead with it. So I am the I forget the name actually for someone there's like an ologist or

00:05:33.960 whatever for someone who does crosswords which I should know because that sounds like the type of

00:05:37.560 thing that would be in a crossword but this is a one that is near and dear to my heart as the

00:05:42.640 token crossword doer of true north crossword puzzles CBC says are not inclusive enough crossword

00:05:50.700 puzzles are everywhere but how inclusive are the bylines and the clues? Okay so CBC's issue here

00:06:00.200 in the author's perspective is that too many white people are making crosswords and the clues themselves

00:06:06.020 even are only representing straight white men so if you look at a crossword you're not going to find

00:06:13.040 anything about anything that's not white so when you look in and it tells you oh you know one across

00:06:18.320 is a you know an alternative to butter that's margarine that's actually not inclusive or when you know

00:06:26.480 four down is saying actor Tom blank and you put in cruise well that actually is just a cis normative

00:06:34.880 heteronormative white supremacist trope because Tom Cruise is a straight white male actor and this is

00:06:41.320 all you get so you need to do like you know Marvel movie blank panther which has been in crosswords

00:06:47.820 actually so I don't know how we can say they're not inclusive enough it's just if you're looking for

00:06:52.060 something you're gonna find it here but this one was like going after crossword puzzles and the people

00:06:58.200 that do them and the people that write them and then like just you fast forward a few weeks later

00:07:03.360 and there was this controversy where the New York Times crossword on the first day of Hanukkah

00:07:08.320 had this design on your screen there which looks a lot like a swastika so maybe this CBC article was

00:07:16.700 onto something you know when you read this this so this is our eighth place story and the seventh

00:07:22.440 place story coming up after it Andrew you read these two stories and you think to yourself now not even

00:07:27.360 the Babylon Bee would come up with this or or when they saw the headlines in the CBC when they saw the

00:07:32.800 headline in the next story they must have thought of themselves wow we really have to step up our

00:07:36.280 game guys because I mean reality is is sort of is sort of picking up and taking over parody at this

00:07:42.560 point crosswords aren't diverse enough the people who design the crosswords aren't diverse enough I

00:07:49.460 mean where do you come up with this stuff it truly is oh could only be the product of the CBC just

00:07:55.280 incredible stuff I mean that that that I'm surprised it only came in at eighth place Andrew I thought maybe

00:08:01.040 this one was going to make a bit of a run uh closer to the top of the charts but hey I mean like I said

00:08:05.320 I said this before with the last story we're talking about top 10 examples of fake news in Canada

00:08:10.940 throughout 2022 there are there are probably a hundred examples of fake news so you got to think

00:08:16.000 yourself to make it in the top 10 this is the this is the upper echelons this is sort of the the elite

00:08:20.880 level of fake journalism fake news in this country so again eighth place not bad yeah this isn't a recap of

00:08:27.500 every story this is only the top 10 remember we do probably three or four stories a week 52 weeks

00:08:32.080 of the year maybe we skip a couple for holidays so there were like 150 stories at a minimum that we

00:08:37.980 had to go through here and it's only the the creme to the the creme of the the creme I was going to

00:08:42.980 say the creme of the crop I was going to do a mixed metaphor thing the creme de la creme the cream of

00:08:47.240 the crop the uh the cat's pajamas out of the cat's no the cat's meow see I'm mixing metaphors left

00:08:52.660 right and center I'm about to secure the number four spot on the list or something uh so let's move on

00:08:57.440 from crosswords although with the swastika one of the new york times I will say crosswords are

00:09:02.380 on notice you guys can't pull any of this nonsense anymore or I'll have to eat a bit of crow there we

00:09:07.380 go I got a metaphor right uh let's go on to number seven what do we have well for number seven we are

00:09:12.800 going to the washington post where we're kind of expanding our borders here but this story I have

00:09:18.540 to say it did get picked up in the cbc so it kind of counts shark week Andrew that famous

00:09:22.880 discovery channel programming during shark week where I guess you watch a lot of tv about sharks

00:09:28.840 no kidding could you guess that the problem with shark week Andrew is not that there's you know

00:09:33.880 it's it's not it's not biodiverse enough we're not talking about only sharks no no it's the fact that

00:09:39.700 the people are too white there's too many men named mike and it's too focused on on what is it it's too

00:09:46.640 negative about sharks truly incredible stuff bro so so the washington post deployed a team of

00:09:52.060 researchers as they usually do they're not busy doing journalism so they deployed a team of

00:09:56.180 journalists to uncover a startling revelation that apparently in shark week this discovery channel

00:10:02.260 program there's too many white guys named mike who talk about marine biology and no kidding the

00:10:09.220 description of sharks is too negative we have to try to paint these sharks Andrew as as as you know

00:10:15.480 lovely creatures of the sea you know things you could go swimming with and things you could you

00:10:19.840 know have a have a fun little have a fun little swim beside not like they'll eat you in the ocean

00:10:24.440 if uh if you look like good food again this this just like the crossword puzzle story is truly

00:10:32.540 better than what babylon b could come up with it is better than babylon b onion whatever insert parody

00:10:39.180 account here it's better than that it's it is unbelievable stuff again seventh place pretty solid showing

00:10:45.200 for the washington post yeah i mean i remember we did a little thing a few weeks ago where i tried to

00:10:51.840 get one of those ai chatbot generator things to generate a fake news story and i had it give me

00:10:58.360 a column in the style of the toronto star about why power tools are racist that was the reference at the

00:11:03.540 beginning of the show and then at a certain point i'm like i don't think i could have come up with a

00:11:08.160 prompt bizarre enough to meet the reality of this whole story about shark week not being diverse enough

00:11:15.020 because i was thinking like what's something i what's some absurd juxtaposition i could frame

00:11:19.400 to get a made-up call about something being racist and i wouldn't have even thought you know shark work

00:11:24.240 is not i wouldn't have even thought of that so at a certain point the reality is more ridiculous

00:11:28.780 than what could pass as satire or even like ai nonsense so uh and the whole thing about the guys

00:11:36.200 named mike is a bit of an amusing observation but they're trying to say is there enough representation

00:11:41.700 my question is is the representation of marine biologists an accurate reflection of the marine

00:11:47.680 biology community because if the marine biology community is overwhelmingly white and male then any

00:11:54.200 sampling of marine biologists you interview is also going to be but that's not a journalism problem

00:11:59.540 that's not a media problem that's just the facts of biology and marine biology in particular

00:12:05.040 well we all know andrew that that sort of diversity the diversity that is accurate of a particular

00:12:11.520 group is not really what we're going for these days it's not really it's not really in fashion

00:12:15.220 in 2022 is it it won't be in 2023 it's all about trying to you know apply diversity standards that

00:12:22.080 aren't representative to all of these different areas one thing i did find funny about this shark

00:12:27.060 week story was that the story about shark week being too white the study was headed by a woman named 0.58

00:12:32.560 lisa whitenack which i just had a little i thought was that was a little amusing to me given that you

00:12:38.640 know we're talking too negatively about great white sharks we're talking to we're promoting too many

00:12:43.400 mics so many white guys okay lisa whitenack thanks for that wonderful piece of scientific research

00:12:49.300 yeah if they put her in a crossword that would not be diverse enough but uh that is the number seven 1.00

00:12:56.580 entry we move along to number six now we're getting into some heavier terrain here uh but

00:13:02.080 as we've noticed in the last few years everything there is possibly going to be in journalism has

00:13:09.200 to have a covet angle or a vaccine angle in some way it just seems to be the way of the world the way

00:13:14.440 that researchers are taking their uh cues and this particular one from the washington post regular

00:13:20.200 exercise may improve the effectiveness of coronavirus vaccines they talked about the fact that

00:13:27.200 exercisers who were vaccinated were 25 less likely to be hospitalized with covid than sedentary people

00:13:33.240 who received the same vaccine but the studies didn't look at whether active people gain additional

00:13:38.840 benefits from their coronavirus shots and boosters so it was the epitome of the media taking a correlation

00:13:45.760 that even the researchers were not saying was causation which is like you know university level 101

00:13:52.940 here about correlation doesn't equal causation but evidently the washington post didn't get that memo

00:13:58.700 i mean i don't think they were really looking for that of course what they were trying to do is

00:14:02.440 find a way to promote the shot uh and and do whatever they could to make that the case oh who

00:14:09.840 could have guessed andrew that that exercise whether you're whether you have the shot or not

00:14:14.660 actually is better for you it's like okay we really needed a washington post article to try and

00:14:19.720 spin it about the shot to come to the conclusion that exercise is good and being sedentary is not

00:14:24.320 i mean this is just classic example of uh of of journalists digging and reaching it's when there's

00:14:30.420 two it's when there's like the the the impetus on them to write x number of articles a day uh becomes

00:14:36.820 sort of the reality for them they go oh we have to come up with a story tonight or otherwise we haven't

00:14:41.540 reached our quota for stories my deadline's at six and i haven't done anything yet uh we got to

00:14:46.160 quickly put something together and whip it up so we find this study and find a way to make our

00:14:50.600 editors very proud by making it an angle about the shot i mean it's just classic classic uh legacy

00:14:57.160 media and washington post getting in twice on the top 10 list for fake news friday i mean

00:15:01.960 goodness gracious that deserves a round of applause for them alone well we haven't even gotten to the top

00:15:07.500 half now we are at the midway point through the top 10 list who knows who lurks on the other side of

00:15:13.940 it here but we do go to global for number five so the washington post gets a bit of a reprieve here

00:15:21.180 uh harrison this was a big one in your wheelhouse take it away yeah so you know truth and reconciliation

00:15:26.680 day the first day the first first year we had it it was trudeau's national surfing day vacation so

00:15:32.940 that was sort of setting the tone for how we should all feel about truth and reconciliation day

00:15:37.240 this year however we got an even more somber reflective opportunity when global news highlighted

00:15:44.660 drag artists called indigi queer drag artists to celebrate truth and reconciliation day just in case

00:15:52.940 any of us were you know feeling like we we didn't we didn't get the most out of it last year when our

00:15:57.740 prime minister went surfing this year we know we got the most out of it we know we had the most reflective

00:16:02.480 and somber day when indigi queer drag artists ella lamoureux and res daddy did their uh drag queen 0.83

00:16:13.020 dancing for truth and reconciliation day uh just incredible stuff no real no real sort of journalism

00:16:21.060 going on here from global news to say wait a second how does this exactly uh benefit those who are

00:16:27.180 survivors those who are have been impacted by residential schools no no it wasn't about that it was just

00:16:33.160 sort of hey how can we tack on the message how can we tack on the the the sort of the woke message

00:16:39.400 du jour to this truth and reconciliation day oh i know the best way to do it let's combine drag queens 0.96

00:16:45.100 and let's combine truth and reconciliation day i'm sure no one was offended by that performance just

00:16:51.300 an absolutely ridiculous thing for global news to write and no criticism no criticism either andrew no one

00:16:56.180 said hey wait how does this sort of how does this advance truth and reconciliation does it does it do 0.94

00:17:01.000 anything at all to advance it or does it actually just sort of mock it and make it look ridiculous

00:17:05.220 again what a surprise didn't come from global none of those questions came from global news but

00:17:09.880 the journalism itself did that's why they're on the list yeah when justin trudeau on the first national

00:17:15.900 day for truth and reconciliation went out surfing in tofino one of the big criticisms was that it wasn't

00:17:21.400 spent in somber reflection and he wasn't talking to indigenous leaders and i but again i also don't

00:17:27.540 think that going to an indigiqueer drag show would have constituted somber reflection or talking to 1.00

00:17:32.900 indigenous leaders i mean in one sense yes it's it's members of the community but i don't see how this

00:17:38.540 helps anyone atone for residential schools when they see res daddy and ella lamaru grinding on stage i

00:17:46.300 again i could be wrong i haven't read the trc report in a while but i don't think that helps

00:17:51.560 us with reconciliation no exactly it might have been tacked onto the back of the report it might

00:17:55.700 have been one of the last recommendations you know you got to throw in a couple of of res daddy

00:17:59.780 uh drag queen shows but i didn't catch that as well andrew and it's just another example like you said

00:18:06.480 like how do we take this how do we take this this idea that i think was sort of created in in

00:18:11.980 with with good intentions in mind to have a day where canada can actually reflect on things that

00:18:17.800 did go horribly wrong how do we take that and just completely denigrate it you go you go surfing on the

00:18:23.340 first day and then you put up these sort of these sort of bizarre very strange weird performances the

00:18:31.380 next day the next year it's it's embarrassing it's sad and i think they've really sort of set the bar

00:18:37.100 very low for well what's gonna what's gonna be hopefully something that i think keeps going on

00:18:42.220 but it's just ridiculous you know one thing i noticed we have not had a lot of actually we

00:18:47.300 haven't had any trudeau content really on the list so far i guess all of the voters thought that he

00:18:53.400 deserved to be in the upper echelons of the top 10 list because we are now down to number four so

00:18:59.560 we're getting to the final three here getting to the the big fake news story of the year and number

00:19:04.660 four is a story that is a bit worldly in nature you may remember when justin trudeau went to her

00:19:11.560 majesty the queen's funeral in london he decided that it was an opportunity for a bit of his own

00:19:17.700 form of entertainment

00:19:19.140 and yes by the way that is real life that's not fantasy that is what we're caught in and i'd rather

00:19:39.400 be in a landslide that was uh justin trudeau singing the queen song although other queen

00:19:45.000 bohemian rhapsody well in the bar of the savoy i believe it was in london and doing this well

00:19:52.940 spending ridiculous amounts of money we learned on this overseas funeral trip for the canadian

00:19:58.260 delegation and it was an award-winning pianist on the piano great that doesn't change the fact that

00:20:04.200 it was a time and place situation and this was mocked around the world by the press especially in

00:20:09.460 britain but the canadian media took a very different view of these things and there were a

00:20:15.440 few examples here global just reported it and played it a bit straight but they fact checked the

00:20:20.980 person who quoted it oddly and started trying to correct well it wasn't this hotel and it you know

00:20:26.520 it was not in d minor it was like it was just ridiculous sort of stuff um but then the best one was

00:20:32.560 cp24 which said p.m trudeau sings queen's classic ballad bohemian rhapsody in tribute to late queen

00:20:41.860 elizabeth the second so they said that this was actually done for the queen which even justin trudeau

00:20:47.400 didn't say so uh some of the media were actually out there doing their own spin just to soften the

00:20:52.880 blow of this global embarrassment i mean it takes it takes a lot of of courage i think to be to be that

00:20:59.580 person in the cp24 and think to yourself oh how are we going to do this i'm just going to throw in

00:21:05.340 that little in tribute line and we're just going to get away with this i'm sure that there were

00:21:09.080 lots of applause lots of uh lots of thanks coming from the trudeau team when that article came out but

00:21:15.100 even the ctv article on this classic right andrew it's it's a total sort of sound barrier from the

00:21:21.500 canadian legacy media to the rest of the world the rest of the world just mocking him for it i'm pretty

00:21:25.920 sure cnn had stories that were negative i mean even even lefty outlets around the world in the uk and

00:21:32.080 in the u.s were mocking him for this because look it wasn't just as you saw in the video it wasn't just

00:21:36.600 trudeau singing it was trudeau very dramatically very flamboyantly getting into his freddie mercury

00:21:43.680 persona and belting it out after a long night sitting by the piano uh but even the ct even ctv tried to do

00:21:50.780 this long form article about how you know do world leaders have the right to sing or party have how

00:21:55.600 come justin trudeau can't sing a little bit and then they compared it to to stephen harper singing

00:22:00.960 a beatles song with yo yo ma in 2009 um again i'm pretty sure one was intentional one was on a stage

00:22:09.180 the other was when he was sitting by a piano when he was supposed to be at the queen's funeral i mean

00:22:14.500 it's just classic right they'll go no now in fairness he did go to the funeral this was in the after

00:22:20.140 hour show but i i certainly agree the whole trip was about the funeral right the whole trip was about

00:22:25.720 the funeral it was not supposed to be justin trudeau's great freddie mercury moment right but

00:22:31.220 it ended up basically becoming that and and we're supposed to sort of say oh political marketing

00:22:37.300 expert clive veroni says trudeau singing in london was blown out of proportion well i wonder why people

00:22:43.160 thought that i wonder why people thought that it might have been maybe not the best look for canada i

00:22:47.600 mean it's just it's just ridiculous uh and this it was a team effort as well by the way it was cb24

00:22:53.400 with the in tribute but they all get a little they all get a little in on the action here ctv cb24

00:22:58.240 congratulations i don't think cb24 gets a lot of recognition these days andrew so you know for them

00:23:03.500 getting number fourth that's that's a pretty good deal for them congratulations to cb24

00:23:08.500 and this brings us to the top three now these are some of the heavy hitters and remember i go back to

00:23:15.420 the beginning this was a list that was compiled by you true north insiders who had the chance to vote

00:23:20.660 and get your favorite fake news stories of 2022 up to the top and we are now in the final three and

00:23:27.740 we've got some heavier content here but number three is a bit interesting because this is more of a

00:23:32.820 general category because if we were to like break down every individual story in this category i think

00:23:38.160 it would probably be the entire list here as evidenced by the fact that it did make it to the top three

00:23:43.400 but what do we have in third place harrison we have polyev derangement syndrome and of course it

00:23:49.300 had to be on this list i mean what what a what a great year of journalists just completely melting

00:23:55.040 down embracing their own little cnn msnbc reaction to trump for their own for their own opportunity to

00:24:02.900 kind of turn that into their own reaction to polyev so they broke out the they broke out the polyev

00:24:07.840 derangement syndrome and i mean again like i said we could have a whole top 10 list of best examples of this

00:24:13.400 why don't we just go through the list i mean we had op-eds and columns in the globe and mail

00:24:17.800 talking about the dangerous rage andrew from polyev's leadership campaign the dangerous rage polyev is

00:24:24.480 is channeling or as another globe and mail op-ed wrote the corrosive campaign i mean truly breaking

00:24:32.100 out the uh going with all the synonyms for how you can try and write you know bad right they're trying

00:24:38.320 to take orange man bad and turn it into pierre polyev they did their absolute best so we got we

00:24:43.600 had dangerous rage you had corrosive campaign two globe mail op-ed headlines embarrassing stuff but

00:24:48.800 then also we had what i thought was the best example of polyev derangement syndrome was when global news

00:24:54.180 uh rachel gilmore was a journalist when they took the picture the the the handshake between jeremy

00:25:00.760 mckenzie and pierre polyev and they took it as some sort of grand endorsement of the far right

00:25:06.760 the radical far right because someone in the diagonal on the meme country by the way took a

00:25:12.760 picture with pierre polyev who unknowingly took the picture with him and then that was basically

00:25:17.640 the news cycle for a whole week uh so there was that there was the the handshake there was also the

00:25:22.720 meltdown of the anglo-saxon language andrew i mean where do you start it's just a whole a whole

00:25:27.720 collection of of of fake news examples that really deserve their entire show onto themselves

00:25:33.800 yeah and when when pierre polyev used the term anglo-saxon words what he was talking about was

00:25:40.100 that we need to use uh politicians and governments need to use simple clear language in legislation and

00:25:46.600 in general so the canadians know what's being discussed so the fact that that was taken plucked

00:25:51.060 out of like a 90 minute interview with jordan peterson and held up as something offensive is absurd

00:25:56.240 i think my favorite is the mgtow controversy which was like this hidden meta tag that was in youtube

00:26:06.080 videos that apparently were got there and no one knows and this was a dog whistle to the far right

00:26:12.680 or to the incels or whatever and the hilarious thing was global did a report about this and in

00:26:17.400 the hashtags they included the hashtag mgtow which was the exact hashtag that they were taking aim at

00:26:24.860 pierre polyev for and again it's it's really this perspective of if you are looking for something

00:26:30.860 you will find it and and the media already decided this guy's far right so every step he took especially

00:26:37.380 early on they had to filter through that but i think the best one might be this one from pierre

00:26:42.680 polyev's first media briefing as leader of the conservatives thank you very much i appreciate it

00:26:50.980 uh appreciate your presence here today uh before i begin let me just say that uh

00:26:56.180 thank you very much i'm being i'm being heckled here by by the by thank you very much for your

00:27:05.260 congratulations thank you very much for your questions i'm going to begin my remarks now

00:27:10.720 but will you take some questions afterwards justin trudeau is out of touch and canadians

00:27:16.660 are out of money the cost of government is driving up the cost of living a half a trillion dollars of

00:27:24.560 inflationary deficits have bid up the cost of the goods we buy and the and the interest that

00:27:32.280 canadians pay the cost for workers and businesses to produce the goods that we buy on top of that

00:27:40.220 trudeau proposes yet more spending to bid up costs even further the more things the more he spends

00:27:47.760 the more things cost it is just inflation their homes and to buy a home in the very first place

00:27:56.020 the reason that look so i mean we have we we have uh basically a liberal heckler who snuck in here

00:28:06.980 today i'm a liberal to well apparently i've actually never seen you heckling the prime minister

00:28:24.380 look bottom line is this i'm going to take some questions at the end of this statement yes i'm

00:28:30.080 taking i'll be taking two questions at the very end thank you very much thank you very much the uh so

00:28:34.240 i'm going to start my statement again yeah he wasn't going to take questions then he said he

00:28:38.560 would take some questions and then one journalist david aiken decided to use his question to demand

00:28:43.120 more questions and as a result just proved exactly why uh pierre polyev might not have had the most

00:28:50.320 friendly relationship with journalists so do you think 2023 will bring more of the same 100 absolutely

00:28:58.020 and i just want to make it clear you know we have we have we're going to give out our top three

00:29:02.700 bronze medal silver medal gold medal we'll give a little trophy for number one but you know there's

00:29:07.640 so many great examples of pierre polyev derangement syndrome but i think if we have to give it to one

00:29:12.800 outlet in particular because to me that's sort of how we should do it one outlet should get to

00:29:16.720 get to take home the award it's got to go to global news right they spearheaded the mig tau thing the mgtow

00:29:22.020 they you know david aiken the uh the global news chief ottawa correspondent or whatever his title is

00:29:27.700 uh it's got to go it's got to go to global news rachel gilmore with the with the jeremy mckenzie

00:29:32.620 diagonal reporting i mean they really did spearhead polyev derangement syndrome they put the team on

00:29:38.100 their back and for that they are the rightful owners of the 2022 third place bronze medal fake

00:29:44.820 news friday awards i mean congratulations to global news which brings us to second place and i think still

00:29:51.820 very much along that same vein of trying to see far-right boogeymen or i guess that's a bit

00:29:57.980 cis-normative boogey people everywhere you go uh and second place are the freedom convoy hate hoaxes

00:30:05.320 now this is a split award as they say there are two contenders in this category number one is the

00:30:11.760 infamous arson host and number two is the less infamous but i think still significant poster

00:30:17.440 hoax and the arson hoax i think a lot of people know by now was jumped on by members of parliament

00:30:23.540 it was jumped on by people in the media it was jumped on by journalists and activists that someone

00:30:29.100 in the convoy supposedly tried to lock people in their apartment building and set fire to it now

00:30:35.220 someone did do this but it was a person that had nothing to do with the convoy whatsoever no connection

00:30:42.500 was known to police uh had some mental health issues i believe but literally zero connection

00:30:48.180 to the convoy at all but this story has been adopted and fueled by people who have never apologized

00:30:55.540 for getting it wrong and it still remains if you talk to some people that haven't followed the

00:31:00.680 corrections where they think that yeah the freedom convoy tried to commit an arson on a downtown ottawa

00:31:06.940 apartment building and again it's that old line about how quickly a lie travels around the world

00:31:11.800 while the truth is putting its pants on well exactly this is the entire this is the entire

00:31:15.780 strategy right journalists have lost a lot of their credibility i'm talking particularly of course

00:31:21.320 about legacy media journalists and one of the things that they do this is a time old tradition

00:31:26.340 but it specifically it was specifically weaponized during the freedom convoy andrew which is basically

00:31:30.700 to write a story and if you get it wrong you can quietly change it you can quietly edit the article

00:31:37.920 without letting anybody know that you've edited the article but you can write the story

00:31:41.560 and as long as it gets published for about a day as long as it gets picked up by a politician and

00:31:46.900 then repeated in the house of commons then it becomes the reality it becomes the truth and that

00:31:52.000 is how so much of this was driven this is how so much of the negative reporting about the freedom

00:31:56.900 convoy which turned out to be mostly false was driven it was just by basically journalists rushing

00:32:02.600 to put out news rushing to put out an article not having the facts to back it up but hey we're just

00:32:07.300 going to get it out there and by the time it's out there by the time it's been out there for about

00:32:11.020 less than a day 12 hours as long as long as it goes out on social media politician shares it well

00:32:16.380 it becomes becomes a truth and that's that there's nothing you can do to convince enough people because

00:32:20.620 there's still a significant number of people in this country that take what the cbc take what ctv

00:32:25.880 take what global have to say at face value if they read it it must be true and that's the problem

00:32:30.860 and these journalists know it and they weaponize that all the time and the other part of this

00:32:35.940 category stars uh fan favorites the canadian anti-hate network does it not it certainly does

00:32:41.640 so the the the head of the anti-hate network bernie farber who has been you know uh been receiving

00:32:48.180 money from the taxpayer been receiving money from the government to assist on uh anti-hate legislation

00:32:54.460 well he took a photo or he posted a photo of an anti-semitic flyer which he says was found by a

00:33:01.880 friend in ottawa and it took about an hour until john k who came to the rescue here he's a he's a

00:33:08.340 very very uh strong on twitter he's always on this stuff he came to the rescue and he basically just

00:33:14.320 did a reverse image search very simple strategy everyone can do it bernie farber however didn't before

00:33:19.860 posing this anti-semitic flyer he supposedly found in ottawa john k took the poster found out that

00:33:25.640 actually the exact same picture with the exact same backdrop of the poster and the poster of course

00:33:31.960 was also found at a miami rally of some sort the month before so could it be andrew that the exact

00:33:40.640 same poster with the exact same backdrop and the exact same angle was found at both the freedom convoy

00:33:45.460 and miami one month apart possibly but it turns out that it was a complete falsehood it was a complete

00:33:51.400 hoax bernie farber shared the poster accusing the freedom convoy of being anti-semitic when in reality

00:33:57.040 that was a fake poster that was not actually in it was not actually in ottawa and it was used to once

00:34:03.880 again bludgeon the freedom convoy over it politicians picked it up shared it on social media and just like

00:34:09.000 that by the way they haven't taken it down by the way just like that it it becomes the truth it becomes

00:34:14.720 the truth and that is exactly how this whole thing works so two freedom convoy hate hoaxes coming in

00:34:20.300 at number two coming in the second place which is a very formidable place so i i mean even though you

00:34:26.420 had to share it with the uh arson thing uh congratulations bernie farber i believe this is

00:34:32.080 a debut appearance for the canadian anti-hate network on the fake news friday award so uh we wish them

00:34:38.840 very well maybe next year they can crack number one we'll see but uh this brings us to number one now

00:34:44.900 in some ways i actually think this is a smaller story than some of the other ones on the list but

00:34:50.720 it's also i think a lot more symbolic because it involves cbc it involves the liberals and it involves

00:34:57.500 multiple layers this is like the fake news inception here where it's like fake news being used

00:35:02.940 to justify other stuff which is then reported in the news for number one this year i don't know if

00:35:08.220 we have the drum roll sound effect but liberals used fake cbc story to justify freezing bank accounts

00:35:16.320 you remember this happened in february when the emergencies act came into effect in response to

00:35:21.620 the freedom convoy and the liberals cite an analysis by cbc as part of their justification for freezing

00:35:30.280 bank accounts in a 14 page document tabled in the house of commons the government uh found that there

00:35:37.560 was no need to cite a departmental report there was no rcmp intel they cited a story from cbc from

00:35:46.160 three cbc reporters and this was enough to freeze people's bank accounts like can you get more fake

00:35:53.680 news friday award worthy than this no it's it's it's truly unbelievable anyone who reads the cbc knows that

00:35:59.680 they they try to kind of coax their opinion articles in two con in two sections they have

00:36:05.280 opinion where they allow just completely unhinged opinions to end up on the cbc front page never

00:36:11.580 conservative of course like crosswords are racist or whatever yeah exactly they have the opinion page

00:36:16.680 and then they have the analysis section which also is opinion it is the exact same thing as opinion

00:36:22.440 but the analysis falls under people who have a better opinion or as the cbc wants to say

00:36:27.760 someone with a of a higher standing in society gets to write an analysis piece so

00:36:32.260 yeah the journal the journalists are allowed to write analysis pieces the cbc journalist is not

00:36:37.320 allowed to write an opinion column but they can write an analysis right exactly so so really what

00:36:42.160 we're talking about here is this is this is the liberals the government relying on a cbc opinion piece

00:36:48.160 to justify freezing bank accounts to give to mps to say wait so so the mps had to vote on the

00:36:55.440 emergencies act this is what mps were given they were given the the 14 page document included the

00:37:01.320 cbc opinion piece as justification and yet the government was still carried in the emergencies

00:37:06.380 act vote it's it's it's truly worthy of the winner again maybe not the biggest fake news story but

00:37:12.920 again like you said it it just paints the image for you it tells you all you need to know andrew

00:37:17.100 about this government about the decisions that they made during the freedom convoy the decisions

00:37:22.100 they used to probably make one of their worst mistakes in government a mistake that many of

00:37:26.620 them will never live down this will sort of ride on them the decision to freeze bank accounts will

00:37:30.800 ride on them forever i think it'll be their legacy and to do so they relied on a cbc opinion piece

00:37:37.480 truly emblematic i think andrew of where we are right now where the government is sort of the the

00:37:44.680 capacity that our government has to justify their decisions if they're relying on the cbc well i think

00:37:50.740 we're got we're in for a pretty interesting 2023 well it is a fitting winner and a deserving winner and

00:37:57.680 we thank all those of you who are supporting true north in the insiders clubs who voted in this poll

00:38:03.900 and perhaps even helped run that story up to number one but whether it was the indigiqueer

00:38:08.920 drag performance or the op-ed from a mask or even our top three we thank and congratulate all of

00:38:16.920 our contenders very well done very well done indeed uh perhaps all of you can continue the fake news

00:38:22.440 into 2023 this has been an absolutely fantastic year i've enjoyed being able to uh pinch hit for

00:38:29.720 candace malcolm in fake news friday this year as well and who knows what the next year brings uh harrison

00:38:35.460 faulkner happy new year to you happy new year to you andrew and happy new year to everyone who's

00:38:39.600 watching thank you guys very much for helping us out and congratulations to the cbc

00:38:46.920 have a great vision to come in and meet you these things we know will be aette and

00:38:49.920 we're safe to see you guys our today um zoom a month for our weekend here let's see yo

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Juno News - December 30, 2022

The Fake News Awards

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