Juno News - March 04, 2023


The media's skewed coverage of Roxham Road crisis


Episode Stats

Length

3 minutes

Words per Minute

144.5848

Word Count

538

Sentence Count

33


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 CBC, for this show anyway, tends to be the gift that keeps on giving.
00:00:04.600 This one was fascinating.
00:00:06.820 Many of you who are active on social media and you follow footage of the convoy
00:00:11.980 and other big events in the Canadian political sphere,
00:00:14.780 you may know Mocha Bezergin.
00:00:17.580 And I apologize to Mocha for likely butchering his last name.
00:00:20.900 But Mocha used to be at Rebel News.
00:00:23.160 Now he works independently.
00:00:25.060 He's a great photographer and videographer.
00:00:27.060 He's everywhere and including Roxham Road where he's done tremendous footage.
00:00:32.300 So at some point he went to Roxham Road and was filming
00:00:36.200 and a Canadian press photographer got a picture of him walking around.
00:00:42.980 Now CBC then shows this story in an article about Roxham Road.
00:00:49.740 The headline of the article,
00:00:51.320 Man Dies After Encountering Patrol Agents at Canada-US Border.
00:00:56.020 And there's a picture of our friend Mocha next to a big sign that says,
00:01:00.700 Arrete, stop.
00:01:02.460 Now Mocha is not actually dead.
00:01:05.480 And if you look at the caption of the photo,
00:01:08.360 it gets even more concerning because they offer a biographical description of him
00:01:13.560 as being a migrant waiting for transport.
00:01:17.120 So they've not only killed off Mocha,
00:01:19.920 but they've also taken away his Canadian citizenship of 21 years and made him an illegal.
00:01:26.360 And, you know, again, is it sinister?
00:01:28.440 No, it sure as heck is lazy though.
00:01:31.260 Lazy reporting and, you know, the whole issue with Roxham Road,
00:01:36.480 which I covered while I was at the Toronto Sun before I came to True North,
00:01:40.060 has been a huge issue that has filtered into our cities.
00:01:46.340 It's impacted on the city of Toronto where I make my home.
00:01:51.420 Refugees are filling up shelters.
00:01:53.940 Nobody or hardly anybody in the legacy media covers this sort of stuff.
00:01:58.100 But they get into these sideshows that are absolutely ridiculous.
00:02:01.500 It's rather frustrating to see this kind of lazy, inaccurate reporting
00:02:07.680 when, in fact, Roxham Road should be dissected as to the impact on Canada's cities.
00:02:16.320 As I said, in particular, Toronto, I think what's happened is Quebec has diverted
00:02:21.820 a lot of the refugees who are crossing the border illegally
00:02:25.480 and being allowed to cross the border illegally, I don't understand it at all,
00:02:29.060 now to Ontario.
00:02:31.420 And it's Ontario's problem now.
00:02:33.880 Yeah, and I mean, obviously, this nonsense about the photo
00:02:36.840 is a bit of a sidebar to the overarching issue.
00:02:40.020 And the media, I think, has done a tremendous disservice
00:02:43.160 by buying into the government's language of this being irregular migration
00:02:48.020 instead of illegal migration.
00:02:49.440 They refuse to call illegal immigration, illegal immigration,
00:02:52.920 which is part of the problem here because this is about narratives.
00:02:56.140 And you've got the federal government saying, on one hand,
00:02:58.540 you know, oh, yes, we're taking this seriously, but it's complicated.
00:03:01.500 And yeah, it's not just as easy as going there and turning people away.
00:03:04.680 But that's exactly what they did during COVID,
00:03:06.880 at least in the earlier part of the pandemic.
00:03:08.680 And now they've just gone back to this being an open,
00:03:11.780 I don't even think a revolving door because no one's going the other way.
00:03:14.360 It's just a one-way red carpet.
00:03:16.440 So let's just pause the video,
00:03:32.580 let's hit it.