Juno News - October 12, 2020


Why is the mainstream media so out of touch？


Episode Stats

Length

5 minutes

Words per Minute

212.99922

Word Count

1,088

Sentence Count

2

Misogynist Sentences

1


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 media bias is a very big topic these days and it's something that i think we should all pay
00:00:11.360 attention to now most people tend to talk about this issue and they'll point to what looks like
00:00:16.320 government collusion between the media and the government so they'll say that you know the media
00:00:20.640 is covering for the government they're not talking about this story or they're pushing some sort of
00:00:24.480 agenda they have biased coverage they might be harder on conservatives than they are liberals
00:00:28.400 etc that's what most people tend to focus on but i want to focus on the sort of ottawa bubble that
00:00:34.320 someone can get into simply by the fact of living there and working as a media professional or as a
00:00:39.520 government employee and that's really the lens with which you're going to look at the world and
00:00:44.480 that itself is going to bias you and i'll show you what i mean so let's keep a couple things in mind
00:00:49.360 here first this this is the city of ottawa's page and it's a very nice page it talks about the economic
00:00:55.760 statistics of ottawa and why you might want to move there and you can see here the average median
00:01:00.560 family income here is about 102 000 and the average housing price is about 400 000 so that's pretty
00:01:06.000 high that's a pretty good income and housing cost is actually pretty low especially we can compare to
00:01:10.960 cities like toronto where i live in toronto the uh in the city of toronto itself a 98 000 is the average
00:01:17.440 median income in toronto region so the surrounding area 104 000 so about the same income but if you look over
00:01:24.640 here at the average housing price according to the website zolo the average housing price in the
00:01:29.760 state of toronto is 1.1 million that's three times what you have in ottawa so you have that much more
00:01:37.120 disposable income that much more income that is not going towards your house that you can afford to
00:01:41.280 drive a nicer car or you know go on vacation send your kids to school do more things buy more things
00:01:47.040 that amount of money is going to put you in a different life position and you're going to be able
00:01:51.440 to look at the world in a different way secondly a lot of the people who work in ottawa tend to
00:01:57.520 either be government employees or work directly or indirectly with government so these are people
00:02:02.320 who again work in a ministry might be a reporter or some support staff a reporter um i mean of course
00:02:07.200 there's other you know other employees that a city would have but but because it's the capital
00:02:10.240 because there are a lot of government offices these are the type of people that are there
00:02:13.600 so these people who work for the media or for the government they're not necessarily affected by some of
00:02:19.520 the corporate restrictions in the same way because even though they can't necessarily leave their
00:02:22.960 house and they have to work from home because they work for a ministry their ministry may not
00:02:26.720 have been shuttered their ministry may remain open and they can work from home so they have not taken
00:02:31.680 that salary hit that other people have when you talk about for example the ontario lockdowns if you
00:02:37.920 are an ottawa reporter and you're making this 102 000 or more if you're you know really high up there
00:02:43.440 you're a pundit or some kind of commentator you have a very very different life outlook than for
00:02:50.160 example a restaurateur in toronto or someone who owns a yoga studio or fitness studio and i can tell
00:02:56.080 you from personal experience my wife being a certified yoga instructor that that industry in
00:02:59.840 particular and a lot of these industries fitness restaurants they're taking a huge hit and it's not
00:03:05.440 really clear how many will survive because so many of them have already uh been shuttered or or will be
00:03:10.720 shuttering once that debt kicks in so you have a very very different outlook the other one is kind
00:03:16.560 of like the plastic ban where you can kind of think of it that these people again because they're living
00:03:22.560 in different life they may not be affected so directly by the plastic ban and here you have you
00:03:27.360 know a story from the cbc saying that recycling was a lie to sell more plastic but even if that's the
00:03:33.360 case and that's a terrible thing that would be a terrible thing first of all my question on this one
00:03:38.000 is simply why did we not know about this before it's not like plastic is a brand new thing but
00:03:41.120 second if you are an elite and you don't necessarily rely on plastic takeaway things to go things not
00:03:49.040 reusable things and look i'm not saying these things are great these things are not good for
00:03:52.560 the environment i'm simply saying that some people may be privileged where they can work from home
00:03:59.200 they're not reliant on some of these things that people are calling for banning they're not going
00:04:04.080 to be suffering or losing their house and all of their income if their restaurant or their yoga
00:04:08.560 studio their gym their bar or their restaurant is going to go bankrupt so that alone is enough to
00:04:14.560 create this sort of bias because you're just looking at the world in a different way and it's not that
00:04:20.160 malicious bias or that pushing an agenda bias that people want to talk about because that that
00:04:25.120 definitely exists and that's something we can talk about as well but the thing that i want to focus
00:04:29.440 on here again is the different outlook you have on life you simply look at the world in a different
00:04:34.400 way because of your circumstances and that is going to affect the issues that you think are the most
00:04:39.520 important and so i really think that's something we need to think about when we're talking about bias
00:04:43.680 or when we're looking at people's perspectives understanding that they have different perspectives
00:04:47.120 even if we agree with them they may be coming at it from a different point of view and that's
00:04:50.640 something we should all keep in mind so hopefully you found this a bit informational and hopefully a bit
00:04:55.280 entertaining as well so for true north i am sam ashkenazi i hope you have yourselves a great day
00:05:00.480 and thank you so much for watching