The Candice Malcolm Show - Fake News Friday ｜ Journalist compares her work to…performing surgery？？

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00:00:30.000 Hello and welcome to you all.

00:00:41.280 It is another Friday, which means it's another time for Fake News Friday, which means it's...

00:00:47.380 Oh no, that was it. That was all I had.

00:00:48.800 Yeah, it's Fake News Friday, December 9th, 2022.

00:00:51.940 I am Andrew Lawton, joined as always, or as usual, by Harrison Faulkner,

00:00:57.940 swimming through that blizzard of lies, debunking all that's wrong in the world,

00:01:02.200 and hopefully trying to make sense of it and make you laugh.

00:01:05.260 Did I get the mandate of the show right?

00:01:07.060 I think you're pretty close there.

00:01:08.440 I have to say, usually you team me up with a little, how was your week?

00:01:11.840 And I was going to say that my week was great until I just read a Twitter thread, Andrew,

00:01:15.460 which really shook my confidence as a journalist.

00:01:17.740 I started to realize that, hey, these Toronto Star journalists,

00:01:20.840 these experts over there that take a bit of taxpayer money,

00:01:24.600 they have so much confidence and so much pride in their work

00:01:28.300 that they actually equate their journalism, Andrew, to brain surgery.

00:01:31.520 And I mean, when you put it in that sense, us lowly journalists at True North,

00:01:35.520 how can we possibly compete with the expert brain surgeon journalists over at the Toronto Star?

00:01:39.800 Yeah, that is fair enough.

00:01:42.880 And a perfect segue into this thread that was written by one Toronto Star journalist

00:01:48.800 by the name of Saba Itazaz.

00:01:52.240 Now, I'm not familiar with Saba's work, and I have no idea how good she is as a journalist,

00:01:57.140 but it was an odd sort of comparison she made here,

00:02:00.080 because she said that,

00:02:01.800 imagine someone randomly showing up when you're sick

00:02:04.500 and saying they'll be performing surgery on you

00:02:06.600 without any training, accreditations, qualifications.

00:02:10.180 You're like, no way.

00:02:11.300 They're like, how dare you gatekeep this profession?

00:02:13.860 I'm an independent surgeon.

00:02:15.980 I see where it's going.

00:02:18.100 She continues,

00:02:19.200 if someone knows how to merely point scalpels at things and cut them,

00:02:23.380 would you let them work on you?

00:02:24.640 Because mainstream doctors are too elite.

00:02:27.520 Give the power back to the people.

00:02:29.800 They don't need to be trained.

00:02:30.900 They just need to be there.

00:02:32.260 Now, apply that to journalism.

00:02:34.440 You got it.

00:02:35.460 Whoa! 0.71

00:02:36.600 I'm told that people liked it when I did that last time,

00:02:40.360 when I flip on sassy mode.

00:02:42.640 That's what I'm doing.

00:02:43.520 That's an old boss from the past.

00:02:45.380 I can't drop this mic because it's wired in there,

00:02:48.200 but if I were to drop the mic, that would be when I would drop the mic.

00:02:51.520 So the point is that journalism is like brain surgery,

00:02:55.480 and anyone who says you should support an independent journalist

00:02:58.380 is like saying that you want just some guy that lives under the bridge to do your surgery.

00:03:03.460 I don't even quite know the point that she's making.

00:03:06.600 Like, at first I read it and was wondering,

00:03:09.300 is she calling for licensing of journalists?

00:03:11.900 And then I wondered, is she just saying that you have to go to journalism school to be a journalist?

00:03:16.560 Like, I wasn't even quite clear what the point was.

00:03:19.180 It just basically sounded to me like she was saying,

00:03:21.980 you know what?

00:03:22.420 I'm a real journalist.

00:03:23.720 Anyone outside the club doesn't get to be a part of it.

00:03:26.480 Well, I think that's exactly it, Andrew.

00:03:27.920 I mean, it's not like it's a new opinion that this journalist is sharing.

00:03:31.480 We hear it constantly that unless you work for one of the big mainstream outlets,

00:03:35.360 one of the outlets in Canada that, you know, takes a bunch of cash from the government,

00:03:38.820 which is usually a sign that you're not really objective,

00:03:41.420 but nonetheless, that's what Toronto Star is doing.

00:03:43.800 So that's usually what they're saying.

00:03:44.980 They're saying that really, unless you work for one of,

00:03:46.860 unless you work with us,

00:03:47.760 unless you're a part of our club,

00:03:49.640 well, then frankly, you're not even a real journalist.

00:03:51.560 And we can look, we can look at all these other examples,

00:03:53.620 but just this week, we can even,

00:03:55.400 we can even tie this into what happened to Blacklock's reporter,

00:03:58.060 the independent outlet at the parliamentary press gallery.

00:04:00.740 They were, they were kicked out of the parliamentary press gallery because,

00:04:03.660 what, one of the journalists was supposedly not wearing earphones in the,

00:04:07.580 in the parliamentary office.

00:04:09.040 I think it was, it was, it was deeper than that.

00:04:10.920 Of course, they don't take money from the government and the rest of them do.

00:04:15.040 And that's sort of this whole,

00:04:16.660 this whole idea that there's a club,

00:04:18.220 there's a little club and you're not in it unless you work for one of these

00:04:21.200 outlets. And I mean, take a look at this.

00:04:23.160 It's, it doesn't even really, I don't know.

00:04:25.840 It doesn't even take very much, very much analysis.

00:04:29.580 Unless you, unless you are part of their club, you're not,

00:04:32.300 you're not really a real journalist.

00:04:33.720 All of these outlets that do take money from the government,

00:04:35.720 all of these journalists that do work for these outlets,

00:04:37.680 all pretty much write the same exact thing.

00:04:39.560 They all have the exact same narrative.

00:04:40.940 And that's exactly what they're going for here.

00:04:42.700 They are basically saying that unless you went to journalism school,

00:04:45.540 unless you are a part of our club, you're not a real journalist.

00:04:47.960 So Susan Thompson, 0.95

00:04:49.680 this woman on Twitter responded back and just said, 0.98

00:04:52.480 so am I not a reporter because I started stringing with only an English degree?

00:04:55.360 We have editors, you know?

00:04:57.140 And of course,

00:04:57.900 then she responded back and said, well, there you go.

00:05:00.060 You have a vetting system in place.

00:05:01.820 I find this hilarious since I'm a refugee journalist,

00:05:04.480 not even from here and don't have a Western J school degree or any privilege.

00:05:08.940 This tweet is not what you think it is.

00:05:10.500 So again, it's all, it's all part of this sort of backtracking.

00:05:13.960 She ended up deleting the tweet because I think she realized how insane it was,

00:05:16.720 Andrew.

00:05:17.000 But even when she faced backtrack, even when she faced criticism, sorry,

00:05:21.600 she couldn't really hold up her argument.

00:05:22.960 And she's saying, well, she has no privilege.

00:05:24.980 She doesn't have a Western J school degree.

00:05:26.940 She just works for the Toronto Star.

00:05:28.440 Very strange.

00:05:30.140 Yeah.

00:05:30.500 There was another tweet in that exchange though,

00:05:32.540 that I found even more amusing because the person says to her, well,

00:05:35.320 your point wasn't really clear.

00:05:38.220 And she said that it's good enough to serve me fine.

00:05:42.060 I don't follow a colonial syntax and I don't need to cheers.

00:05:47.380 So that's basically like your cover letter for a Toronto star job.

00:05:52.100 You use a phrase like colonial syntax and you are absolutely in the clear.

00:05:56.640 And I have to bring this up because there's this new thing going around.

00:06:00.660 You may have seen online.

00:06:01.860 It's called chat GPS.

00:06:03.380 And it's basically this open AI service that you can use.

00:06:07.820 And it's a free sort of beta trial thing.

00:06:10.440 If you find it really creepy, I get it.

00:06:12.600 AI stuff is very weird.

00:06:14.260 And you can actually give this little bot a prompt and ask it to do something for you.

00:06:19.900 You could have a conversation with it.

00:06:21.420 You could ask it to write something for you.

00:06:23.260 I was playing around one night when I couldn't sleep.

00:06:26.060 And I said this, I gave the prompt this exact thing.

00:06:29.400 This is not a word of a lie.

00:06:30.300 I said, please write me a Toronto star column about how power tools are racist.

00:06:36.360 And I'm like, I don't know.

00:06:37.460 This thing's not going to work.

00:06:38.480 It's not going to give me anything.

00:06:40.160 Lo and behold, it gave me one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight paragraphs that

00:06:46.040 I think you could copy and paste and put into the Toronto star.

00:06:50.020 I won't read the whole thing.

00:06:51.080 And you can see it up on the screen there.

00:06:53.440 The lead.

00:06:54.320 It may seem strange to suggest that power tools, inanimate objects used for construction

00:06:59.160 and repairs could have any connection to racism.

00:07:01.800 However, when we examine the history and current use of these tools, a pattern emerges that reveals

00:07:08.220 their inherent bias and discrimination.

00:07:10.780 You skip forward ahead.

00:07:12.220 It makes the case very well.

00:07:13.780 And then at the end of it, in conclusion, power tools may appear to be neutral objects,

00:07:18.960 but the history and current use of these tools reveal a pattern of bias and discrimination

00:07:23.920 from their association with traditional gender roles and whiteness to the potential negative

00:07:29.340 effects on marginalized workers.

00:07:31.520 It's clear that power tools are not as neutral as they may seem.

00:07:35.420 It's important for us to recognize and address these biases in order to create a more equitable

00:07:40.560 and inclusive society.

00:07:42.080 Did I just result in a Toronto star reporter getting laid off?

00:07:46.460 Because that to me seems just perfect.

00:07:48.480 It's perfect, Andrew.

00:07:49.300 It's free of all colonial syntax and it's right on the money.

00:07:52.300 That's really, that's really what I think is going on here.

00:07:54.640 This, this AI bot, that's almost scary.

00:07:57.520 It's scary how accurate that is.

00:07:59.260 It's incredible.

00:08:00.460 You know, I hope that you never know though, because, because if it didn't go to, if it

00:08:04.640 didn't go to J school, Andrew, it's maybe not even part of the club.

00:08:07.280 I mean, maybe we have to, maybe we should bring in the AI bot as, and publish it as,

00:08:12.080 as sort of like a joke column in true North has, has basically like the most absurd take

00:08:17.840 you could ever have.

00:08:18.760 Cause really that's brilliant.

00:08:20.820 That's hilarious stuff.

00:08:21.780 Yeah.

00:08:21.980 I won't read it cause it wasn't exactly PG, but I did another one later.

00:08:25.140 I asked it to write me a love story between a Twitter doctor and a mask.

00:08:29.580 And it got, uh, it got very erotic there.

00:08:31.760 So, uh, we, that one's for the after hours edition of the program.

00:08:36.040 Uh, I'm going to like, this AI writing stuff is supposed to save time, but I think I'm just

00:08:40.640 wasting time because all day now I'm just going to be putting in these, these different

00:08:43.900 prompts here.

00:08:44.600 Uh, let's talk about a, uh, walking, talking AI machine.

00:08:48.080 Actually, no, I don't think there's any I, which is, you know, intelligence.

00:08:51.080 Uh, but, uh, this is from Jagmeet Singh, who has said that he is confronting the genocide

00:08:59.520 that is taking place in Canada.

00:09:01.760 What's he going on about Harrison?

00:09:03.700 So, uh, what was it on Monday or Sunday?

00:09:06.580 Uh, Jagmeet Singh quote tweeted an MP and he wrote this white supremacy, misogyny, race

00:09:13.040 and racism continue to contribute to this ongoing genocide of MMI WG two S.

00:09:19.840 Uh, and we must confront it, Andrew.

00:09:22.220 So the MMI WG missing and murdered indigenous women and girls, um, that is under the, uh,

00:09:28.780 you know, in the eyes of Jagmeet Singh, in the eyes of some, uh, you know, even Justin

00:09:32.500 Trudeau, that is supposed to be a genocide in Canada right now.

00:09:36.140 Uh, and he tacks on the two spirit, uh, to the end of that, which I wasn't aware of.

00:09:41.160 I didn't know that actually the, there was a genocide, uh, being perpetrated by white supremacists

00:09:45.700 against two spirited indigenous women and girls. 0.95

00:09:48.460 But nonetheless, apparently Jagmeet Singh thinks it is, um, but yes, anyway, so he writes

00:09:54.800 this tweet basically saying, Andrew, that the government that, you know, he is propping

00:09:59.440 up as, uh, as a part of this coalition is contributing to genocide, which is a very strange

00:10:05.220 accusation to make.

00:10:06.200 You're, you're basically making that accusation against yourself too, in a way.

00:10:10.240 Uh, he's talking about what took place in, uh, he's talking about basically the murder

00:10:14.720 of three women, indigenous women.

00:10:17.420 Um, and actually it's four, one woman has yet to be identified by a serial killer in

00:10:21.140 Winnipeg.

00:10:21.700 Now that is supposed to be a genocide. 0.54

00:10:24.720 And he jumps at the opportunity to say, it's a white supremacy. 0.92

00:10:27.800 It's misogyny. 0.92

00:10:28.600 It's racism.

00:10:29.480 And we must confront this genocide.

00:10:30.740 And we got some great replies in it.

00:10:32.560 He got absolutely crushed in the comments.

00:10:34.820 Andrew, he was the winner of the ratio of the week award, the prize ratio of the week award

00:10:38.860 on ratio, uh, and take a look at this.

00:10:41.440 So Jonathan Kaye commented this.

00:10:43.360 He says, so there's an ongoing genocide being conducted by the Canadian government, the same

00:10:47.420 government that's been in power for seven years, which you and the NDP are now propping

00:10:51.100 up as accessories to genocide.

00:10:52.840 What are you and your whole genocide air caucus going to turn yourself into the Hague?

00:10:57.600 It's a funny way to look at this situation because why would Jagmeet Singh be so, uh, willing

00:11:02.620 to label the government he's propping up as genocide?

00:11:05.440 Yeah.

00:11:05.640 I mean, I, I think this is a very real issue and I think it's a very tragic issue and what's

00:11:10.900 happened in Canada with these indigenous women, what's happened with the range of indigenous,

00:11:14.540 uh, women and girls that have gone missing, that have been killed is absolutely horrific.

00:11:18.680 But you cheapen these things when you start trying to score political points on them, which

00:11:23.780 is what happens when Justin Trudeau gets up on stage and accuses his own country, his

00:11:28.460 own government of perpetrating an ongoing genocide.

00:11:31.140 And then we'll, when it comes to accusing China of genocide, it's well, uh, uh, you know,

00:11:36.880 the word means, uh, it's tough to say.

00:11:38.600 No, I mean, who are we to say?

00:11:39.980 It's like you called yourself the leader of a genocidal nation and, and Jagmeet Singh,

00:11:44.860 same thing.

00:11:45.400 You are propping up a genocidal government or are you just accusing Canadians of genocide?

00:11:50.880 Like here's my belief.

00:11:52.080 If you believe genocide is happening right now, what are you doing about it?

00:11:57.080 Like, what does it say about you?

00:11:58.360 If you're sitting on your computer right now doing nothing and you think genocide is taking

00:12:03.440 place?

00:12:04.500 No, it's a, you're exactly right, Andrew.

00:12:06.700 It is a tragedy.

00:12:07.700 And instead of doing anything about it, it's not like, it's not like we're seeing even the

00:12:11.500 Canadian government, Justin Trudeau, as you said, labeled this a genocide as well.

00:12:15.940 It's not like we're seeing really the Canadian government do much about it either.

00:12:18.660 Uh, let alone Jagmeet Singh, who's propping up the government.

00:12:21.640 So as you said, you said it perfectly.

00:12:24.120 They believe there's an ongoing genocide in this country.

00:12:27.040 They have no willingness to actually call out a legitimate genocide that has taken place

00:12:31.340 in China, yet they're not doing anything about it.

00:12:34.100 And they're just trying to use it to score political points.

00:12:36.640 It is, it's, it's, it's atrocious.

00:12:38.680 It's tragic. 0.81

00:12:39.480 It's disgusting, really.

00:12:40.980 Yet it's just supposed to be accepted.

00:12:43.740 We can't just go around, Andrew, and call ourselves genocidal because if you're not going

00:12:47.840 to do anything about it, if you're not going to actually address the root cause of the

00:12:50.440 problem, there was an article in 2015 from the Globe and Mail which said 70% of these

00:12:55.100 incidents are take, are being, are being perpetrated by indigenous men. 0.69

00:12:58.480 So there's a real problem taking place.

00:13:00.400 We're not pinning the blame on anybody.

00:13:02.000 But what we are saying is if there's a real problem going on, if it is really a tragedy

00:13:05.880 as these politicians say it is, which it obviously is, then do something about it.

00:13:09.580 Actually solve the problem.

00:13:10.520 But don't just go around saying it's white supremacy.

00:13:13.200 It's, it's misogyny.

00:13:14.280 It's genesis.

00:13:14.780 It's, it's racism.

00:13:15.920 It's atrocious. 1.00

00:13:16.640 It's completely ridiculous. 0.98

00:13:18.660 Yeah. 0.93

00:13:19.120 You're basically just doing governance by the AI machine that I wrote the Toronto Star

00:13:22.800 column with. 0.97

00:13:23.580 It's ridiculous. 0.58

00:13:24.960 Why don't you take this next story, which actually I think is also a contender for having 0.68

00:13:28.580 written, been written by an AI machine.

00:13:30.940 Most certainly, Andrew.

00:13:31.860 This is yet another example of some great surgery-like journalism here from the Ottawa Citizen.

00:13:36.580 Also a, a taxpayer funded, receiving, a taxpayer receiving journalism outlet.

00:13:42.820 They wanted to sort of expand their, expand their pool of writers.

00:13:46.820 So what did they do, Andrew?

00:13:47.960 They took a special column written by a mask.

00:13:52.600 Get it?

00:13:53.100 Written by a mask.

00:13:54.420 Very clever stuff.

00:13:55.400 Very, very deep.

00:13:56.600 As the kids say, it's very meta.

00:13:58.420 Very deep stuff.

00:13:59.180 And I'm just going to read to you some of these lines because, again, this is just an

00:14:02.500 excellent piece of journalism, Andrew.

00:14:04.080 Andrew, really hitting the, hitting hard and really kind of going right at the issues here.

00:14:08.280 Starts off with this.

00:14:09.000 Now, hang on.

00:14:09.460 Just before we get into this, I set the stage.

00:14:11.680 Is this written by a N95 mask?

00:14:14.800 Is it written by a cloth mask?

00:14:16.720 Is it written by a gas mask?

00:14:18.780 Do we know any identifiable details about the author?

00:14:22.580 My, my, my first read on it, Andrew, is that it's one of those blue medical cloth masks.

00:14:27.980 It's not an N95 mask.

00:14:29.060 So it really, it's not up to the real standard.

00:14:30.980 It's not up to the standard.

00:14:31.540 This is one of the forgotten masks.

00:14:32.700 This is like yesterday's downtrodden mask.

00:14:35.120 Completely.

00:14:35.680 Completely.

00:14:36.280 No, terrible.

00:14:36.440 Terrible.

00:14:36.640 It's not, as Dr. Tam says, it's not one of those well-fitting medical masks.

00:14:40.480 It's just one of those blue random masks.

00:14:43.440 And he's feeling, this mask is feeling really left behind.

00:14:46.660 Did you just misgender the mask, by the way?

00:14:48.960 Do you, did it tell you it was a male?

00:14:51.300 No, it didn't.

00:14:51.920 I don't think I did.

00:14:52.600 I don't think I did misgender it.

00:14:53.880 But if I did, I have to.

00:14:55.320 Well, it could be a she. 1.00

00:14:56.100 I don't know if it's a he mask.

00:14:57.300 Come on, Harrison.

00:14:58.100 Be woke.

00:14:58.940 Well, I'm being safe and I'm going to go with they.

00:15:01.020 How about that?

00:15:01.480 We'll start with they.

00:15:02.200 They, them is always good.

00:15:04.200 Right, right.

00:15:04.680 It's just a mask.

00:15:06.200 So we'll go with they for it. 0.97

00:15:08.040 And the mask starts off with this.

00:15:10.820 It's me, your mask.

00:15:12.420 I'm here in between the cushions of your couch.

00:15:14.420 Or maybe I'm under the bed.

00:15:15.660 It's difficult to tell.

00:15:16.600 It's so dark.

00:15:17.640 Wow.

00:15:17.920 Just wonderful.

00:15:18.740 Wonderful way to start off.

00:15:20.480 And then it goes on, Andrew.

00:15:21.500 There's some incredible, incredible lines here.

00:15:23.860 As people continued to get sick and die, we got over that.

00:15:26.960 And pretty soon you wouldn't go anywhere without me.

00:15:29.080 We lined up together at stores.

00:15:30.680 You showed me off at work.

00:15:32.080 We were very close.

00:15:33.120 Very close.

00:15:34.080 I felt you every time you smiled.

00:15:36.060 It's kind of creepy.

00:15:37.380 And as autumn rolled into winter, you remarked more than once how I felt a nice warm scarf.

00:15:42.400 A nice warm safe scarf, Andrew.

00:15:45.360 That's very important.

00:15:46.640 It wasn't just a warm scarf.

00:15:47.680 It was a safe scarf around your mouth.

00:15:50.000 Very good stuff.

00:15:50.760 And then, of course, they had to kind of, the mask sort of broke out.

00:15:54.100 It's medical knowledge because, as we all know, a very smart mask here.

00:15:58.880 Remember that BMJ, formerly British Medical Journal, analysis, last November, more than

00:16:03.300 70 studies worldwide looking at public health measures, it said mask wearing accounted for

00:16:07.600 a 53% reduction in the incidence of COVID-19.

00:16:11.520 We were doing good work, you and I.

00:16:13.260 Not, you know, I mean, 50% of them didn't, 50% of them didn't work, but I guess 50% of

00:16:17.640 them did work.

00:16:18.160 So there you go.

00:16:19.000 Good work.

00:16:19.640 And also, it gets political.

00:16:21.820 The mask gets a little political.

00:16:23.680 When Ontario Premier Doug Ford said, we've got to move on, that was all you needed.

00:16:27.800 It was the final straw.

00:16:29.300 Without even a last kiss goodbye, you discarded me as quickly as Andy threw Woody into his

00:16:34.140 pile of ignored toys once Buzz arrived.

00:16:37.300 Oh, Andrew, it's a love story between a mask and a forgotten friend.

00:16:41.240 A forgotten lover in the mask.

00:16:43.540 It's a pretty mouthy mask, by the way.

00:16:45.580 I know, right?

00:16:46.240 I mean, where does a mask get off thinking it's so special?

00:16:48.560 It's just a regular blue mask.

00:16:50.600 But look, this is the kind of stuff you get when the taxpayers fund your journalism.

00:16:54.600 This is the kind of quality stuff you get.

00:16:56.280 And I don't even know if our AI bot friend would be able to pull off something as incredible

00:17:00.880 as this, Andrew.

00:17:01.580 Yeah, I wonder if the mask is a recipient of the local journalism initiative funding or

00:17:07.980 something.

00:17:08.300 If the mask was subsidized.

00:17:10.880 Maybe this was an advertorial by the Public Health Agency of Canada.

00:17:13.720 You never know.

00:17:14.700 Well, if it's not, then we do have the independent press gallery to back up the mask too.

00:17:18.680 Yeah, a mask.

00:17:19.920 We'll have to check if a mask has applied for accreditation with the IPG.

00:17:23.560 I don't know if that's...

00:17:24.820 I don't know if we can allow a mask in.

00:17:27.020 Well, we'll have to leave that up to the experts.

00:17:30.320 So we'll leave that up to you guys, Andrew.

00:17:32.280 But I got to say, I mean, like I said, this is the kind of stuff that probably without taxpayer

00:17:37.840 funding, you probably would never get.

00:17:39.460 This is a perfect example of why this sort of stuff in the Ottawa citizen is very important.

00:17:45.500 They do end up telling us who might be behind the mask at the end of the story.

00:17:50.520 The guy's name, I hate to burst our bubble here, but it turns out the guy might be named

00:17:54.740 Bruce Deichman.

00:17:56.760 I wouldn't be bragging about that if I were you, Bruce.

00:17:59.300 No, no.

00:18:00.960 Exactly.

00:18:01.500 But nonetheless, he didn't put his name in the byline.

00:18:04.220 He only put it at the very bottom.

00:18:05.440 I wonder how many people actually got to the bottom of that article.

00:18:07.660 Yeah, he kept up the illusion until the bitter end.

00:18:11.040 All right.

00:18:12.940 We have time for one more, right?

00:18:14.460 Because this one, this was your baby.

00:18:15.880 You wanted to do this one, right?

00:18:16.900 Most certainly.

00:18:17.600 Yet another example, Andrew, of great surgery-like precision when it comes to journalism.

00:18:23.100 We're tackling the real issues here.

00:18:25.060 This is from the Washington Post.

00:18:26.460 Just take a look at this headline here.

00:18:28.460 Shark Week lacks diversity.

00:18:30.900 Over-represents men named Mike, scientists say.

00:18:34.220 So, you know, these are the real issues here.

00:18:36.120 When the Washington Post is not going after systemic racism, when the Washington Post is not

00:18:40.040 tracking down Donald Trump's nefarious activities, the Russian connection, all of that

00:18:44.340 nasty stuff, they're going after the Shark Week, Discovery Channel's lack of diversity.

00:18:49.860 No joke here.

00:18:51.300 Researchers say Discovery's programming overwhelmingly featured white men as experts while emphasizing...

00:18:57.000 This is a real important part here.

00:18:58.620 They hid this in the headline, Andrew.

00:19:00.880 While over-emphasizing negative messages about sharks.

00:19:04.760 So we're being too nasty to the great white shark.

00:19:06.940 We're being too preferential to scientists named Mike. 0.92

00:19:10.560 And we're being too preferential to experts who are white males.

00:19:14.180 Now, I can absolutely understand that this is the kind of stuff Jeff Bezos was hoping to uncover when he bought the Washington Post.

00:19:21.300 You know, he was probably looking to get maybe some favorable headlines for Amazon.

00:19:24.080 But also tackling the real issues.

00:19:26.600 A lack of diversity on Shark Week.

00:19:28.460 Again, let me just go back to the original point, which we touched on at the beginning.

00:19:32.920 These journalists here who are such experts, who are such giants in the field, Andrew.

00:19:37.100 Us at True North, we can never reach these heights.

00:19:39.200 The journalist who wrote this is a Stanford graduate.

00:19:42.120 You know, really, absolutely hard-hitting stuff.

00:19:46.280 It's almost...

00:19:47.000 It's humbling to me to read something like this and realize I'm not even close.

00:19:51.240 I...

00:19:51.640 Maybe I missed something here.

00:19:54.160 Are the sharks named Mike?

00:19:55.700 Like, where are all the Mikes coming from in Shark Week? 1.00

00:19:58.660 The Mikes are the white scientists on the show. 1.00

00:20:02.520 So, they did this really hard-hitting analysis stuff here.

00:20:05.800 They did some research.

00:20:07.560 So, there are too many marine biologists named Mike.

00:20:09.960 That's the complaint here.

00:20:10.860 That's exactly it.

00:20:12.000 That's exactly it.

00:20:12.940 So, from 1988 to 2020, in a study which was completed by the Public Library of Science,

00:20:20.000 which I think just included watching TV, watching endless hours of Shark Week content,

00:20:25.220 which, you know, is actually a good way of getting some grants.

00:20:28.820 You pitch some insane stories saying,

00:20:31.160 we're going to track down the lack of diversity on Shark Week,

00:20:34.100 and really all you get to do is just watch TV for hours and hours on end.

00:20:37.660 It turns out that actually there's too many white Mike men, 0.82

00:20:41.080 white men named Mike, on the program, and not enough black women. 1.00

00:20:45.200 And all of the Mike content on Shark Week is nasty towards Shark.

00:20:49.380 We're not portraying sharks, Andrew, as these great beings of oceanic art.

00:20:56.020 You know, we're painting them as nasty, scary creatures in the depths of the oceans.

00:21:00.760 The study author's name is Dave.

00:21:03.560 How dare you take aim at over-representing Mikes when your name is Dave? 0.89

00:21:08.300 I know, Andrew.

00:21:09.520 They, uh...

00:21:09.840 He's like...

00:21:10.200 That's like the...

00:21:10.800 That's like one step short of John Smith, and he's like,

00:21:13.200 oh, we have too many Mikes here. 1.00

00:21:14.700 It's like Dave's supremacy is coming to roost here.

00:21:17.540 My goodness.

00:21:17.920 Even better, Andrew, there's another study in that they sort...

00:21:21.140 They source in this article,

00:21:22.720 and the last name of the person who created this other study,

00:21:26.980 his last name is White Neck.

00:21:30.140 The guy's last name is White Neck.

00:21:32.820 Does he have a knack for being white? 0.96

00:21:34.420 Is this like a big display of white shark, great white privilege? 0.59

00:21:38.640 I don't know.

00:21:39.280 Yeah.

00:21:39.620 So it's Lisa White Neck and Dave who are talking,

00:21:44.340 who are doing this deep, hard-hitting analysis on too many Mikes,

00:21:48.180 too many white men talking too many nasty things about sharks. 0.67

00:21:51.920 I'm out. 0.98

00:21:52.500 I'm just doing the...

00:21:53.080 I'm getting the AI thing to do the show next week, so have at it.

00:21:56.920 This has been another edition of Fake News Friday.

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00:22:16.100 about, you know, white sharks named Mike or whatever.

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00:22:23.900 Have a great weekend, everyone.

00:22:32.900 I have a great weekend.

00:22:34.060 How about they're supposed to give you a ratings break?

00:22:35.060 That's all.

00:22:36.460 I don't know.

00:22:37.420 I totally said.

00:22:39.020 I rely on you and your票 at руки and your neighbors.

00:22:42.740 It's really good.

00:22:43.660 Builder andWatch with my colleagues at the fasten円.

00:22:45.180 That's what I'll see

00:22:45.820 because you are active in the moment.

00:22:47.300 And everyone's this kind of aspect.

00:22:48.280 And you can watch an Ale Roderção.

00:22:48.580 And to you know how do I get all the jets in,

00:22:50.180 and be safe in your milieu.

00:22:51.520 And if you have the trivia to get there

00:22:52.440 and get it,

00:22:53.560 how can you get enough beer?

00:22:54.080 Well, if you can get it yet.

00:22:55.860 I'm gonna quit.

00:22:57.120 You can get away if you're giving back

00:22:58.120 over here because I've ever been i耻.

The Candice Malcolm Show - December 09, 2022

Fake News Friday ｜ Journalist compares her work to…performing surgery？？

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