The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - February 11, 2024


And the Oscar goes to...Justin Trudeau! (media subsidies fail)

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local media erosion local journalism subsidies
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Wyatt Claypool
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Justin Trudeau Rachel Gilmore Oscar Will Be Blood Daniel Day-Lewis Anthony Hopkins Mark Zuckerberg Mohamed
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Someone needs to give Prime Minister Justin Trudeau an Oscar because there's something so enjoyable about him trying to generate faux outrage at his own plans backfiring on him. I'm not sure if you've heard about it, but Bell Canada is cutting over 4,000 jobs in their organization because despite all of the government subsidies and other subsidies to their Canadian news programming, it's all losing money. Government subsidies do not actually make organizations profitable. If anything, it actually gets them to double down on the sorts of things that were making them lose money in the first place.

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00:00:00.000 Someone needs to give Prime Minister Justin Trudeau an Oscar because there's something so enjoyable about him trying to generate faux outrage at his own plans backfiring on him.
00:00:11.220 I'm not sure if you've heard about it, but Bell Canada is cutting over 4,000 jobs in their organization because despite all of the government wage subsidies and other subsidies to their Canadian news programming, it's all losing money.
00:00:25.600 Government subsidies do not actually make organizations profitable. If anything, it actually gets them to double down on the sorts of things that were making them lose money in the first place.
00:00:35.360 And Bell Canada is experiencing this in a very hard way, and they're realizing that they just have to cut this stuff.
00:00:41.600 They're cutting morning and noon hour CTV news programming. They're cutting a lot of other news shows, television shows, Canadian media type stuff because it's simply not even worth the subsidies.
00:00:53.260 So watch this press answer that Justin Trudeau gave. Outraged that Bell Canada would do this at all. He can't understand why they wouldn't just do more propaganda for him because that's really what he's mad about. He's mad that they're not going to do more propaganda. Look at this.
00:01:10.400 This is a garbage decision by a corporation. 1.00
00:01:15.540 Oh, a garbage decision by a corporation, no doubt. 1.00
00:01:18.480 No better. We've seen over the past years, journalistic outlets, radio stations, small community newspapers bought up by corporate entities. 0.98
00:01:29.460 Yes, because you make it impossible to operate in Canada, so they get bought up by larger corporations who can handle the regulations until they can't like Bell Media and then they just cut stuff.
00:01:41.540 Oh, goodness, man, Justin, look at your own regulations.
00:01:45.780 Who then lay off journalists, change the offering, the quality of offering to people, and then when people don't watch as much or engage as much, the corporate entity says, oh, see, they're not profitable anymore. We're going to sell them off.
00:02:02.240 Yes, yes, when people do not watch the programming, the ads fall in quality and advertisers won't pay as much for them.
00:02:11.540 Unless you're willing to give them each a billion dollars, all the media corporations, and then give the CBC another 500 million like they're asking for, they're not going to be able to keep these programs.
00:02:23.420 Justin Trudeau is basically saying, well, why aren't they doing my propaganda at a loss?
00:02:27.400 They're already getting a lot of money, but it just demonstrates that liberal propaganda is so unappealing, people are just not even bothering to watch.
00:02:33.740 And he's saying, why won't they lose money for me? Don't they love me? Don't they know that I'm basically their dad at this point?
00:02:43.240 How could they attack their dad like this?
00:02:46.280 Like Justin Trudeau is faux outrage. Give him an Oscar. He's like Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood or Anthony Hopkins in The Remains of the Day.
00:02:56.340 It's so subtle yet intense.
00:03:00.060 This is the erosion, not just of journalism, of quality local journalism at a time where people need it more than ever, given misinformation and disinformation.
00:03:11.040 By you.
00:03:12.000 But it's eroding our very democracy.
00:03:15.240 It's eroding.
00:03:15.580 Our abilities to tell stories to each other of how people's lives are, stories that reflect our own communities and not central offices in our biggest cities, is part of what binds this country together from coast to coast.
00:03:32.900 If you watch all of this liberal government subsidized media, it is the Toronto bubble.
00:03:39.560 That is what the media reflects.
00:03:41.360 Oh no, but we want to tell each other stories.
00:03:44.700 Like we're sitting around the campfire.
00:03:46.860 We need more stories from Brooks.
00:03:49.460 We need more stories from high-level Alberta, from Sudbury or whatever.
00:03:54.600 Like no one's actually making that stuff because that stuff's even less profitable.
00:04:00.020 Local media only works when there is profit incentive.
00:04:03.920 And all these corporations are not doing these local stories.
00:04:07.100 Have you ever watched the CDC?
00:04:08.560 It's all just things that people, like hyper-liberal people in Toronto care about.
00:04:12.380 That's why nobody watches it anymore.
00:04:14.360 But like his faux outrage, like they're not telling stories from small communities, from local communities.
00:04:19.540 They never did that.
00:04:20.400 They never did that.
00:04:21.640 Yeah, they throw a feels-good story in there every once in a while to pretend like they care about your small town.
00:04:25.940 But they don't.
00:04:26.960 They only ever report on stuff that people in like Bay Street care about, people in downtown Montreal care about.
00:04:33.800 The coast.
00:04:35.640 With incredible diversity of experiences, of geographies, we need those local places.
00:04:42.020 We need different versions of Marxism on TV.
00:04:44.500 We need a diversity of Marxism.
00:04:46.380 Corporate Canada, and there are many culprits on this.
00:04:52.000 Including myself.
00:04:53.180 I am also a culprit because, you know, I was funding them and I was telling them the sort of propaganda I wanted them to make.
00:04:58.880 And I caused these job losses because I forced them to be unprofitable, which is what he should say if he was honest.
00:05:06.100 But whatever.
00:05:06.980 I think his performance is still better than mine.
00:05:10.600 Have abdicated their responsibility toward the communities that they have always made very good profits off of in various ways.
00:05:20.880 Profits? 0.98
00:05:21.620 Disgusting.
00:05:22.100 They need, like, as a government, we have been stepping up over the past years, fighting for local journalism, fighting for investments that we can have all the way up. 0.62
00:05:30.720 I can't even post my stuff on Facebook anymore.
00:05:32.720 Conservatives and others who say.
00:05:33.960 Like, let me pause that.
00:05:34.960 Sorry, I'll bring them back a bit.
00:05:36.240 But, like, I can't even post stuff on Facebook anymore.
00:05:39.120 And I feel pretty local.
00:05:41.200 I'm a guy sitting in a basement right now.
00:05:43.360 I feel pretty local.
00:05:44.640 And I can't even access my 75,000 follower Facebook page anymore.
00:05:50.240 I had more traction than many large corporate media outlets.
00:05:54.860 And Justin Trudeau, in a fake, false attempt to get journalists money, is extorting Facebook into making it so expensive that I'm not even allowed to access my Facebook page anymore.
00:06:04.900 And I don't blame Mark Zuckerberg or Facebook.
00:06:07.920 They're just doing what they have to do.
00:06:09.580 They're not going to be extorted for millions of dollars a year.
00:06:12.000 $156 million is what they estimated they'd have to pay to keep their news online.
00:06:15.580 So Justin Trudeau will be like, oh, I can't believe they're letting down local journalism.
00:06:19.740 That was you.
00:06:21.140 The only thing that, you're the one, like, letting down local journalism.
00:06:24.580 The only thing you've done for local journalism is done wage subsidies so that places like the CBC can hire more liberal journalists in small local areas.
00:06:34.600 That's not local journalism.
00:06:36.040 That's corporate journalism who has an employee in, like, you know, blackie Alberta. 0.99
00:06:41.540 That isn't local journalism.
00:06:43.320 That's just hiring a corporate guy who works from home in a small town.
00:06:48.600 Attacks from conservatives and others who say, no, no, no, you're trying to buy off journalists.
00:06:53.180 We're trying to support journalism in this country.
00:06:56.100 I like how he even brought it up. 0.99
00:06:57.440 Dude, shut up. 1.00
00:06:58.620 If I'm his communications team, I would have hauled him off from, like, hauled him away from the podium and said, 0.99
00:07:03.760 never talk about buying off journalists, even if you're denying it.
00:07:08.060 Never invoke the idea of bribing journalists.
00:07:11.380 It never worked when you made jokes about it, and it's not working when you're trying to, like, hand wave it away.
00:07:16.500 We're not buying them off.
00:07:18.160 We're just giving them a lot of money and expecting that they're not going to do anything too pro-liberal.
00:07:24.480 You know, I mean, we're just funding local journalism, but if the conservatives get in, you might not get the money anymore.
00:07:30.300 So, you know, act accordingly.
00:07:32.300 That's effectively the wink and nod that happens when the liberals give money to local journalists, you know,
00:07:40.020 CBC affiliates, global news affiliates, you know, CTV news affiliates.
00:07:45.060 That's what happens.
00:07:46.060 Yeah, it's your guys' fault.
00:07:57.960 You're not demanding better.
00:08:01.100 The CBC fell in quality not because of his subsidies, not because of his taxpayer money being given to them
00:08:07.240 and them being turned into liberal pablum spewers. 1.00
00:08:12.140 It's your fault for not demanding that they be high enough quality.
00:08:15.400 You know, no liberal policy fails on its own terms.
00:08:20.080 It always fails because you didn't try hard enough for Justin Trudeau.
00:08:23.540 You know, you're all going to get a cut in your pay because I guess he's, like, from what Justin Trudeau is saying,
00:08:29.940 I'm an employee of the Liberal Party, and I was supposed to try harder to make sure that we kept quality up.
00:08:34.980 I'm not responsible for the corporate media that you subsidize.
00:08:39.120 They're responsible for themselves, and you're partially responsible for them because you keep saddling them with subsidies that if they want, they have to do what you say.
00:08:47.800 I don't even know who I am since Bell Canada decided they were going to cut these things because there wasn't enough Canadian stories floating around the ether.
00:09:15.540 There wasn't enough stories about, I don't know.
00:09:20.540 I don't even know.
00:09:22.360 I don't watch the CBC or Global.
00:09:24.960 It's terrible.
00:09:26.020 I tried to watch a friend on the CBC the other day, Raheem Mohamed, a really good friend.
00:09:31.220 He was debating, like, Rachel Gilmore on CBC News.
00:09:34.540 So I had to download the CBC Gem app, which made my eyes bleed just to have to do that little bit.
00:09:40.400 And just to watch his segment where he was talking with Rachel and another guest who's some guy I actually sometimes like to watch his interviews.
00:09:47.360 He's decently interesting.
00:09:48.480 Forget his name.
00:09:49.400 Terribly sorry to him.
00:09:50.500 I had to watch, like, 17 of the exact same advertisements over and over again to even get to the segment.
00:09:58.080 Like, it's not only is government-subsidized media boring, they don't even have the common courtesy to at least reduce the amount of ads.
00:10:07.080 Like, the CBC gets – I know this is not Bell Canada.
00:10:09.420 I'm not talking about Bell Canada anymore.
00:10:11.140 The CBC gets $1.4 billion a year.
00:10:15.900 And somehow I still need to watch 20 ads at probably more like 25 because I didn't even get through the entire 45-minute, like, show of all the different segments they had.
00:10:27.860 I had to watch, like, legitimately 12 minutes of ads to get to, like, the 25-minute mark of it to see my friend on the show.
00:10:37.260 And I even had to watch a bunch of ads halfway through the segment.
00:10:40.800 I know some of you will say, well, I had to watch ads to watch you on YouTube.
00:10:43.840 At least you can skip them.
00:10:45.740 These are, like, 45-second ads, and you've got to watch three of them in a row multiple times throughout, like, one show on the CBC.
00:10:55.020 The CBC is horrible, and it's because of Justin Trudeau.
00:10:58.500 If the CBC was privatized, they would actually probably figure out how to be profitable, and they would keep on living.
00:11:04.240 Right now, what Justin Trudeau is doing with media subsidies is actually guaranteeing a lot of these media companies never bounce back because his subsidies are poison-pilled.
00:11:12.380 It's made their content boring.
00:11:14.180 It's made advertisers dry up. 0.96
00:11:15.980 And once all the subsidies go away, they're not going to be able to have any reserve of an audience left to bring people back because people in Canada just learned that TV sucks. 0.75
00:11:25.840 Why bother with TV?
00:11:27.060 Why bother with corporate news online?
00:11:28.580 I'm going to watch independent media, or I'm just going to watch something else.
00:11:31.820 I'm just going to watch entertainment on Netflix.
00:11:33.740 That's effectively what Trudeau's trained people to do.
00:11:36.080 Who cares about whatever is going on in the CTV newscast? 1.00
00:11:39.540 It's boring garbage. 1.00
00:11:41.540 It's pablum. 0.98
00:11:42.820 It's the same story over and over again from a liberal selection-biased perspective where, yes, they technically sound neutral while they cover the story, but they leave out all the facts that would maybe take you into a conclusion.
00:11:55.640 That would make you go towards a conclusion that wasn't liberal-approved. 0.74
00:12:00.860 Disgusting. 0.99
00:12:01.480 Annoying. 0.80
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