Juno News - The legacy media misleads Canadians about a teen dying of COVID-19

00:00:00.000 The legacy media mislead the public about a teen dying of COVID, Peter Mansbridge roasts the CBC for being untrustworthy, and CBC Edmonton admits to airing fake news.

00:00:10.960 It's Fake News Friday, I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.

00:00:18.900 Hi everyone, thank you so much for tuning in to The Candice Malcolm Show.

00:00:22.740 And on Fridays, we always go through the most outrageous examples of the legacy media here in Canada pushing fake news, pushing misinformation, disguising their opinion or their own editorial position as fact or as news.

00:00:37.420 We see it so much in Canada.

00:00:39.080 And in fact, this week there has been sort of a fake news theme.

00:00:42.120 Every day this week, more or less, I have been covering stories in the legacy media, specifically the CBC, but also other outlets who push their opinion as fact.

00:00:51.860 I'll give you an example.

00:00:53.060 On Thanksgiving or before Thanksgiving, the CBC did a special talking about the issues that may arise with Thanksgiving dinners, having family members, some who are vaccinated, some who are not.

00:01:03.740 And so they went out, they created a montage, which is just a collection of short little clips of different Canadians.

00:01:09.420 They featured five or six Canadians who were all talking about their experience in having Thanksgiving dinner.

00:01:15.060 Of course, it's the CBC, so all five people more or less had the exact same opinion.

00:01:19.140 The opinion was they were vaccinated and that they were angry that there were some people in their family who were not vaccinated and therefore they didn't want to have dinner with them.

00:01:27.600 Literally all the people who they found had the exact same opinion.

00:01:30.900 And then after they showed that montage, they went back into studio where Ian Hanna Mansing, the host of the show, talked to two other Canadians who also had that exact same opinion, who were also vaccinated, who were also angry or concerned that there were unvaccinated family members and they didn't want to have dinner with them.

00:01:47.300 So it was literally, the entire show was just dedicated towards people with the exact same opinion.

00:01:52.760 Like I said at the time, they couldn't have gone out and found a couple of Canadians who were unvaccinated to explain their position, why they chose not to get vaccinated, or they couldn't have found someone like me.

00:02:02.580 I am vaccinated, but I don't care if you're vaccinated or unvaccinated.

00:02:06.180 I would happily have you over to my Thanksgiving dinner.

00:02:08.820 And the status of vaccination is not going to determine whether or not I let a family member into my home.

00:02:15.420 But instead, no, the CBC wants to push division.

00:02:18.020 They want to pit us against each other. 0.82

00:02:19.840 And so they put this ridiculous collection together and show that as what the norm in Canada is. 0.96

00:02:25.860 It's such a disservice to our country. 0.62

00:02:28.380 Well, I've got some fresh examples here for Fake News Friday that I'm going to run through.

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00:03:47.440 Okay, so the first story I want to cover today on the Candace Malcolm Show is a really sad, tragic story out of Alberta.

00:03:53.260 It's hard to even cover these kind of stories as a journalist when we're talking about kids who die.

00:03:59.260 And it's just so, so sad, so horrific.

00:04:02.680 And to make matters so much worse is when the media try to politicize the death of a child.

00:04:07.520 There's absolutely nothing more despicable than when journalists use the death of a child to drum up a narrative, to push an agenda, and to sensationalize the news.

00:04:17.180 But this is unfortunately what we're seeing out of Alberta this week.

00:04:20.140 So lots and lots of outlets for covering this story.

00:04:22.460 I'll just read you a couple of the headlines here.

00:04:24.060 This is in 660 News, a radio station.

00:04:26.200 And the headline reads, Young teen among new COVID deaths reported Tuesday.

00:04:30.660 I'll just read a bit from the story.

00:04:33.340 Calgary, as Albertans celebrated Thanksgiving across the province this past weekend, Alberta reported its youngest COVID-related death to date.

00:04:40.200 Among the 33 new deaths reported over the weekend was a 14-year-old who had complex pre-existing medical conditions.

00:04:47.300 Dr. Dean Hinshaw said the pre-existing conditions played a significant role in the teen's death.

00:04:52.960 So we're told that this 14-year-old died from COVID.

00:04:55.600 However, they also had pre-existing conditions that played a significant role.

00:05:00.160 All right, next, head on over to the CBC.

00:05:03.540 CBC Calgary says COVID-19 ER visits and hospitalizations on the rise among Alberta kids.

00:05:09.020 And then the sub-headline here says a 14-year-old in Alberta died of COVID-19 on October 7th.

00:05:15.540 So the story itself is about how there are more cases of COVID among young kids and pre-teens in Alberta.

00:05:22.320 I'll just read a bit from the story.

00:05:23.280 It says a Calgary doctor says the emergency room at Alberta's Children's Hospital is treating more children for COVID-19 now than during any other wave of the pandemic.

00:05:31.520 COVID-19 rates among 5 to 11-year-olds who are too young to be vaccinated skyrocketed in September.

00:05:37.240 And with such high transmission rates, experts were expecting a correspondent surge in ER visits and hospitalizations.

00:05:45.180 And then it goes down a little further to talk about a teen death.

00:05:48.460 So let's zero in on this.

00:05:49.620 It says, on Tuesday, the province's chief medical officer of health reported a 14-year-old died of COVID.

00:05:56.360 The boy from Alberta's central zone died on October 7th.

00:05:59.720 He is the youngest Albertan to die of the virus since the start of the pandemic.

00:06:03.620 An 18-year-old girl, also from the central zone, died in September.

00:06:07.360 Now here they repeat the claim that Dr. Dana Henshaw made about how the pre-existing medical condition played a significant role.

00:06:13.080 However, the CBC adds its own spin to make it controversial, to be critical of that.

00:06:20.380 So here it says, Alberta's chief medical officer of health, Dr. Dana Henshaw, drew criticism for noting the boy had complex pre-existing medical conditions that played a significant role in his death as she made the announcement during Tuesday's news conference.

00:06:33.580 And here we have our old friend, Dr. Joe Vupond.

00:06:35.920 You may remember we covered him here on the Candace Malcolm Show a couple of months ago when we learned that he is – this is a person who is constantly, constantly being interviewed on the legacy media throughout Alberta.

00:06:48.640 He is like the go-to guy to criticize the government, to advocate for more lockdowns and more heavy-handed restrictions.

00:06:56.080 In Alberta, of course, at TrueNorth, we reported that he's also a huge NDP donor, probably one of the biggest donors in the province of the NDP donors.

00:07:04.920 Thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars to the NDP.

00:07:07.520 But nobody in the legacy media bothered to ask him about his huge donations to a political party before trotting him out as this supposed non-partisan expert.

00:07:17.100 So anyway, here we have our go-to guy, Joe Vupond, being interviewed in this story.

00:07:21.440 So here we go.

00:07:22.220 This is a quote.

00:07:22.760 He says, oh, my God, we had our first true pediatric deaths at emergency room physician, Dr. Joe Vupond, during a Protect Our Province update on Tuesday.

00:07:32.460 Of course, they don't mention that he's an NDP donor here either.

00:07:35.760 The group of physicians began holding their own updates to, quote, to fill the void left by fewer government COVID-19 updates.

00:07:42.560 So here is a quote from Dr. Joe Vupond really trying to politicize this horrible, tragic death of a child.

00:07:48.480 So here he goes.

00:07:49.240 He says, in the press conference, I heard a caveat that there were comorbidities.

00:07:54.000 In my mind, there are no comorbidities that matter in this instance.

00:07:58.280 A 14-year-old is a 14-year-old.

00:08:00.300 And for the record, if I were to pass away tomorrow, I would be listed as a 52-year-old with comorbidities, he said.

00:08:06.280 So in his mind, it does not matter what else this boy died of.

00:08:10.280 The fact that he had COVID is all that matters.

00:08:12.420 It should be a COVID death and nothing else.

00:08:15.520 Well, I'm going to have to burst his bubble and the CBC's bubble because what they are pushing is not accurate.

00:08:21.300 It is not true.

00:08:22.360 And don't take my word for it.

00:08:24.000 How about listen to family members of this 14-year-old boy who passed away?

00:08:28.940 So here's Simone Spitzer. 1.00

00:08:30.180 She posts this story from Edmonton City News.

00:08:32.920 The headline says, Alberta reports youngest COVID-related death to date.

00:08:38.060 And then she has this as her comment.

00:08:40.500 The 14-year-old on the article is my brother.

00:08:44.060 He died from stage 4 brain cancer, not COVID.

00:08:47.800 This is fake news.

00:08:49.360 He was diagnosed in January 2021 and hospitalized in August.

00:08:53.540 Two days before his death, he was tested for COVID and it turned out positive.

00:08:57.920 Please share and comment that this is fake.

00:09:01.160 And now another post.

00:09:02.500 This one from Justine Spitzer.

00:09:04.440 She also says, this is my brother.

00:09:06.760 And he had stage 4 brain cancer for 9 months, not COVID.

00:09:11.740 This is fake news.

00:09:12.860 This is incorrect.

00:09:13.980 There is not even 1% truth. 0.55

00:09:16.160 This is disgusting.

00:09:17.740 He was diagnosed in January 2021 and hospitalized in August.

00:09:21.640 Two days before his death, he was tested for COVID and it turned out positive.

00:09:25.640 This is all false information.

00:09:27.920 So here we have a case where sadly, tragically, horrifically, a young man, a 14-year-old is

00:09:34.800 diagnosed with brain cancer stage 4.

00:09:37.820 He tragically succumbs to his illness.

00:09:40.420 He passes away.

00:09:41.600 And here we have the media sensationalizing the death and treating it as though he died

00:09:46.260 of COVID even though he died of brain cancer.

00:09:48.140 And then you have some blowhard top doctor saying it doesn't even matter what his comorbidities

00:09:52.980 are because he only died of COVID.

00:09:54.700 It doesn't matter any of the other facts about this story, any other facts about this

00:09:58.460 boy and his life and what happened to him.

00:10:00.440 None of that matters.

00:10:01.440 All that matters is that we want to politicize this tragedy, politicize COVID, make everybody

00:10:06.020 afraid, make all the parents out there very worried that their 14-year-old could get COVID

00:10:10.420 and die too, even though that is not the case in this story.

00:10:13.280 The case is that this boy sadly, tragically died of a brain tumor.

00:10:17.440 He had stage 4 brain cancer.

00:10:18.880 That is why he died.

00:10:19.660 He caught COVID probably in the hospital, on his deathbed, and there is no rational way

00:10:25.640 that this should be considered a COVID death.

00:10:28.080 And yet here you have the activists in the media, activist journalists, activist doctors

00:10:32.140 like Jova Pond insisting on something that is true when the family of this boy say something

00:10:37.560 completely different.

00:10:38.500 This is just so despicable.

00:10:40.120 I've seen this so much in Alberta.

00:10:41.480 It's like, yes, there is a fourth wave in Alberta.

00:10:44.160 Yes, things are bad.

00:10:45.120 But the media are so dead set on basically just trying to humiliate Jason Kenney, making

00:10:49.340 the situation seem far worse than it was.

00:10:51.680 I showed this on my social media a couple weeks ago that Global News was pushing the

00:10:56.120 idea that the death rate in Alberta was nearly 10 times what it actually was.

00:11:00.260 They showed the death rate that was the death rate for the entire province of all deaths

00:11:04.280 and they made it seem like it was just COVID deaths.

00:11:06.920 The media is so obsessed with trying to drum up fear, trying to push this narrative, trying

00:11:11.760 to humiliate conservative political leaders.

00:11:13.900 And it is just too far.

00:11:16.160 This is 100% fake news.

00:11:17.920 This is one of the worst stories that I have seen on Fake News Friday since we started doing

00:11:22.520 this segment.

00:11:23.760 And really, it's truly despicable how they politicized COVID-19.

00:11:27.860 All right, moving on.

00:11:28.560 This is a story from a couple weeks ago, but I forgot to cover it before.

00:11:31.780 But here we have Peter Mansbridge, sort of the iconic CBC host, this sort of legendary

00:11:37.520 man who was host of the National for years and years and years before the decline and during

00:11:43.580 the massive decline in viewership.

00:11:45.960 Well, he retired a couple years ago and now he's come back to do an interview with the

00:11:50.420 CBC.

00:11:51.160 And he says, he's pretty frank here.

00:11:54.080 He's pretty clear in this interview that he says that the CBC needs to do better.

00:12:00.140 Here is the headline that the CBC put on this.

00:12:02.560 Peter Mansbridge says,

00:12:03.560 So the story over there on the CBC talks about how the media broadly have a decline

00:12:19.360 in trust, a decline in the way that people look at the profession of journalism.

00:12:24.800 And so this is a quote from Peter Mansbridge that says,

00:12:26.720 You only have to look at the ratings that come out every few months in different parts

00:12:29.980 of the world on trust in terms of different professions.

00:12:32.660 And for journalism, it's gone down.

00:12:34.860 It's not as low as politicians, but it's slow.

00:12:36.620 And yeah, we can't afford it to be this low.

00:12:38.780 CBC jumps in to say, according to a recent Ipsos service, Canadians public trust in news

00:12:43.420 media has declined from 72% in 2019 down to 66% in 2021.

00:12:49.680 That's a pretty staggering drop in just two years.

00:12:52.640 Obviously, that's because of the pandemic and the way that the media has just constantly

00:12:56.760 tried to drum up fear and misled Canadians, misled the public about this disease.

00:13:02.260 Then there is another, they quote another survey that's even worse.

00:13:05.440 It says,

00:13:06.100 In another report by communications firm Edelman, 49% of Canadians surveyed agreed that journalists

00:13:12.800 and reporters are purposely trying to mislead people by saying things that they know are

00:13:17.760 false or gross exaggerations.

00:13:19.940 It goes back to Peter Mansbridge.

00:13:21.360 It says, if we don't have the trust of our audience, you know, viewers, listeners, readers,

00:13:25.800 if we don't have that trust, we've got nothing.

00:13:28.440 Journalism is built on credibility.

00:13:30.200 Credibility is built on trust and truth.

00:13:32.820 And we're facing a challenge on the trust factor.

00:13:36.720 And then it goes on to talk about his new autobiography called Off the Record, released

00:13:40.500 on October 5th about his 50-year career in journalism.

00:13:44.520 But really quite something when you have Peter Mansbridge, probably the most well-known,

00:13:48.780 the most bankable newsman in the country, the most well-known, most trusted probably that

00:13:54.920 Canada has had.

00:13:56.560 And here he comes out and he says that he is worried.

00:13:59.100 He says that the CBC itself needs to do better.

00:14:02.340 He says this,

00:14:03.220 I'm forever indebted to the CBC, but I'm passionate about it and I worry about it.

00:14:07.340 I think the country absolutely needs the CBC.

00:14:09.680 Do they need the CBC they've got now?

00:14:11.700 Probably not.

00:14:12.520 They need it to be better.

00:14:13.640 So even Peter Mansbridge recognizes the fact that the CBC is just not trustworthy.

00:14:18.760 They're not presenting news in a factual way.

00:14:21.200 They have their own ideology.

00:14:22.760 They have their own agenda that they push above the facts and the news.

00:14:26.060 They would rather push their ideology and their agenda, whatever it is.

00:14:30.320 And you see it time and time again.

00:14:32.280 So pretty devastating stuff when you have your own most well-known, respected journalist

00:14:36.280 blasting your organization, saying that you need to do better and that the audience just

00:14:41.120 simply doesn't trust you.

00:14:42.120 And we can see that through declining viewership rates, declining ad revenue over at the CBC.

00:14:46.900 They have a real problem.

00:14:48.660 And, you know, more and more money from Justin Trudeau, more and more money from the taxpayers

00:14:52.360 isn't going to fix the problem of credibility.

00:14:55.460 Sure, it might make it easier for them to afford to hire more journalists and, you know,

00:14:59.320 hire more people to put together these fancy studios and do more and more elaborate shows.

00:15:03.480 But at the fundamental level, it doesn't make Canadians increase their trust in you,

00:15:08.640 doesn't make Canadians trust you.

00:15:09.660 In fact, probably the opposite.

00:15:11.260 Canadians feel a sense of mistrust.

00:15:13.440 Why does the CBC have to continue to take all of this money from the taxpayers?

00:15:17.100 What is the value?

00:15:17.920 What are they providing?

00:15:18.900 Why do we need this service?

00:15:20.360 And I think that CBC is in a really rough spot right now.

00:15:25.020 All right, final story.

00:15:25.760 Moving on.

00:15:26.340 And very closely connected to the previous story about Peter Mansbridge.

00:15:29.780 This is from CBC Edmonton.

00:15:31.620 This is what they posted on social media on October 12th.

00:15:34.540 They said, we know how important accuracy and transparency are to our viewers.

00:15:38.440 So tonight, our newscasts will address an editorial error in our programming this week.

00:15:43.520 Now, it's important to note that editorial error, okay?

00:15:46.780 Let me read what happened.

00:15:48.080 So it says this.

00:15:48.680 Earlier in October, we aired two stories on what patients can expect in a hospital ICU

00:15:53.900 during the COVID crisis and the strain on nursing staff.

00:15:57.280 We shot footage for those stories at two Edmonton training facilities that showed mannequins in

00:16:02.820 beds and a realistic-looking hospital setting due to restrictions.

00:16:07.240 Unfortunately, some of that same footage was then used in a different story about COVID

00:16:12.160 protections and modeling last week.

00:16:14.060 Using those images outside the context of the training facility was inappropriate, and

00:16:19.140 we apologize for the error in judgment.

00:16:21.680 The story has been corrected, okay?

00:16:24.200 So the CBC wanted to give you a taste of how chaotic the ICU at a hospital was during COVID.

00:16:30.880 And so rather than going in and filming a real ICU, which I understand is, you know, the

00:16:37.780 last thing that real doctors and nurses want is a bunch of annoying CBC journalists getting 1.00

00:16:42.460 in their way while they're trying to actually save lives.

00:16:45.020 So instead of going into a real ICU, the CBC journalists went into a training facility

00:16:51.020 with fake people in hospital beds in a realistic-looking hospital.

00:16:55.380 I have a question.

00:16:56.240 The whole concern about the lack of ICU beds and the fact that the hospitals are overcrowded,

00:17:02.800 why is it that we have training beds in a realistic-looking hospital setting?

00:17:07.900 Why do they have a whole separate hospital that's not being used for patients but being used

00:17:12.380 for training and for CBC segments?

00:17:16.720 I mean, it just seems a little bit weird to me.

00:17:19.180 So regardless, CBC showed the seed not in the context saying this is what it might look

00:17:23.440 like and this is a training facility, but then they just went ahead and used it in regular

00:17:26.560 segments pretending that it was real.

00:17:29.220 And I wanted you to pay attention to the fact that this was an editorial error.

00:17:32.920 Okay, so I've worked in a newsroom before.

00:17:35.000 There are a lot of people involved, and sometimes people make mistakes.

00:17:37.900 Sometimes you put up the wrong graphic, you know, a junior producer put something in or

00:17:42.240 a researcher put something in and it's not the right graphic and it goes to air and it's

00:17:46.820 a mistake and it's a true accident and they don't mean it.

00:17:49.900 But here, note how they say it is an editorial error.

00:17:53.900 So this was a deliberate choice.

00:17:55.820 This wasn't just some young intern or some young staffer making a mistake by putting up

00:18:00.440 the wrong image.

00:18:01.100 This was a deliberate decision by a producer, by the editorial team, by the people who are

00:18:07.420 producing the show to show the public something that wasn't accurate, that wasn't true because

00:18:12.840 it was true enough or they wanted the scene to look more chaotic than it was.

00:18:17.320 Yes, CBC, this is why nobody trusts you.

00:18:20.180 Peter Manbridge is 100% correct.

00:18:22.640 You push fake news.

00:18:23.780 You get caught pushing fake news.

00:18:25.400 You apologize for pushing fake news.

00:18:27.120 But then you turn around and you push fake news again.

00:18:29.620 This is why Canadians don't trust you.

00:18:31.840 Thanks so much for tuning in, everyone.

00:18:33.080 Have a great weekend.

00:18:33.920 I'm Candice Malcolm and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.

Juno News - October 15, 2021

The legacy media misleads Canadians about a teen dying of COVID-19

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