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SPEAKER_01 (00:00):
Yeah, ladies and
gentlemen, it's Monday.
Yeah.
That music is in my head all thetime.
And it's always thinking oflike, wow, what are we going to
talk about today?
But you know, for the weekendsteward, it just uh one more
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time.
The frustration of where am Igonna get my news?
Because I really getting upsetand frustrated by the fact that
the news I'm getting is sodistilled.
And you know, last night I wastalking at dinner with some
friends, and we were talkingabout, you know, the Canadian
budget was uh delivered lastweek, and as usual, the media
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gave the government a pass,especially the Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation, or asI like to call it lately, the
Communist BroadcastingCorporation.
Because it really isn't doingits job anymore.
Its job is apparentlypropaganda.
That, ladies and gentlemen, iswhat media has now become a
propaganda machine.
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It isn't the news channels, it'snot Walter Cronkite, as Stewart
likes to always bring up, it'snot the reliable individuals
that we've we've grown up totrust.
In fact, trust is now afour-letter word.
We don't care, we don't believethem, but yet when it suits our
narrative, we run that way.
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And the clips that you seeonline, all these things,
anti-Trump.
If you're an anti-Trumpist,you've got a plethora of
different channels that you canwatch, read, consume, and will
give you all the hate fest youcould possibly imagine, and vice
versa.
So it doesn't matter thatthey're not giving you real
news, they're giving you realviews.
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Thanks.
Welcome back, everybody, to theRant Network.
My name is David Solomon, he isStuart Brisgell.
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So sit back and relax todaybecause another one of these
rant next rants is just gonna beabout what the hell, Stuart.
You know, we talked about thisoffline, and and and in truth,
the the the media has just notis no longer our friend.
Okay, overall, the media, whoare they closing up to?
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We're seeing this more and moreand more, especially the liberal
media.
It's just like you could takethat that these all these stuff
was written by in the US, theDemocratic Party, in Canada,
it's the Liberal Party, in theUK, it's the Labor Party.
It's not it's not news anymore,it's the communication arm of
the of that of those parties.
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How do you see it?
SPEAKER_00 (02:55):
Well, let's break
this down.
We all consume it, it's some ofus obsess over it, and yet most
people never stop to ask thebasic question.
What exactly is the purpose,David, of news?
And and and how did we get ithere?
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I think that's the question.
So let's break this down uhwithout the sugar coating,
right?
Like we you know, let's rantabout it.
Before we had cable networksscreaming at each other, David,
the social media melting downevery 12 minutes, right?
You know, human beings pass thenews through nothing more of
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word of mouth in villages,right?
Used to be avoid danger, survivea storm, keep track of a leader
who claimed to be in charge,right?
So that the start of the newswas really just about
accountability, right, andsurvival.
Let's fast forward to ancientRome.
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They literally nailed the newson the wall, you know, even in
the dynasty, Chinese dynasty ofHan, they also had news even
back then, and to empower peopleto understand things were well
in control.
Let's jump ahead.
Now we're at the printing press.
You know, Gutenberg gave thehumanity an ability to mass
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produce information of lockingit in the hands of a few elites,
right?
Suddenly, people didn't have todepend on rumors, court
whispers, or tick tock.
Printed newsletters became thespreading of financial,
political, and globalhappenings.
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The world became informed.
By the 1600s, the first realnewspaper arrived in Europe.
These papers didn't reportevents, they fueled debate, they
created public sphere whereeveryday people could argue,
right?
So, what is the actual purposeof news data?
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News exists to inform thepublic, news exists to keep
power in check, news exists togive citizens enough information
to make smart decisions.
And finally, news exists toconnect people who otherwise
live inside their own littlebubbles.
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So, David, what's the idealversion?
When when the telegraph showedup, news was instant, right?
John Kennedy shot, Nixonarrested, Watergate.
The announcement was the fact,it was revolutionary, you know,
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followed by radio putting avoice to those facts.
We all remember, as you said,Walter Cronk, right?
Kennedy has been shot is dead.
Families gathered around thebroadcast during the war to get
updated, live reels from thefield, then television, right?
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It what unfolded the VietnamWar, the atrocities, the civil
rights movement, Martin LutherKing.
How about the erroneous moonlanding?
This is what news was about.
Real information withouteditorial beliefs, without
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someone's personal or network'sbelief system, or the corruption
of government in media.
This is the era where there'snot enough verification, which,
by the way, in the UnitedStates, the Democrats created
the fact check.
But today, anyone can publishanything, anyone can go viral,
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and the loudest voices draw downon the most accurate ones.
Social media turned news intopersonalized buffets, served
algorithm, fact seconds.
Now, two people living on thesame street can be consumed and
pumped completely two differentrealities.
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Man, this sounds like a moviethat I saw with Jim Carrey.
But what's the purpose of news?
It hasn't changed.
In a true democracy, the truth,timely reporting, and function
of this noise should bedispensed to the people, not
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filtered what we should andshouldn't tell them.
Division, confusion, financialinstability.
It's the complete erosion oftrust, which is the news media
agencies globally have caused.
Right?
David, you want me to rant?
You want me to tell you?
SPEAKER_01 (07:56):
No, I I I got you,
but I gotta, I gotta, I gotta
tell you something.
This is where you're you'reyou're you're great, and yeah,
you hit the nail on the headwhat news is supposed to do.
But here's what the power nowhas the new media has, and I'll
give you two examples, okay?
The less is CBS.
I mean, look what they did withthe Kamala Harris interview,
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right?
On one hand, they promoted oneanswer, and when they aired it,
they promoted a second answer.
They edited it, they didn't giveyou the full version because
they realized the backlash onCamilla was bad.
It was gonna make Trump lookgood.
Can't do that.
That's not news.
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That's not news.
So so where does it leave us?
Hold on, hold on, wait, wait,wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,
wait, wait, wait, wait.
My friend, I got one more foryou.
Okay, now I get it.
You're sitting here today andyou're saying, um, okay, what
else is wrong?
Well, so CBS goes ahead andoverhauls its editorial
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department, bringing Barry Weissin to run the news department.
And what do they do?
Rebel.
How dare she suggest, Stuart,the audacity of balanced
reporting?
Those were her words.
And the journalism journalistssaid no.
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That's news, or that's views.
Now I'll go one more step.
The British BroadcastingCorporation, the BBC, the
so-called elite standard ofglobal news.
Well, the Director General ofthe BBC, Tim Davey, and the
corporate CEO of News andCurrent Affairs, Deborah Turnus,
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both resigned on the weekend.
Why?
Because they stepped down aftera public outcry erupting after
over the editing of PresidentDonald Trump's January 6, 2021
speech featured in a documentarythat aired last year.
It basically made him look, theybasically edited his statements
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in such a way to make him looklike a demagogue.
They falsely presented what hesaid.
Quoting Al Jazeera, a knownterrorist media outlet.
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And these people were were they,I mean, think about it.
They got caught because theywanted to make, they had the
power to control the message.
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Okay.
SPEAKER_00 (10:37):
Go ahead, Sword.
Okay, so what else is wrong withthe news today?
How about outrage is replacedinformation?
Headlines are writtenspecifically to mislead.
The race to be first destroyedis the race to be right.
I mean, opinions are are andnews are blended together for an
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agenda, whether political orother, more nefarious reasons.
There's a financial incentives.
You brought up the CBC.
Okay, financial incentive todistort coverage for financial
gain.
Okay, here in the United States,ABC.
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Too many stories, not enoughdepth.
With social media distortingwith an algorithm, like I said,
depending on what house you livein and what your content filter
has been dictated by the severalagencies that disseminate these
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types of things.
People don't trust the news,they trust TikTok videos.
SPEAKER_01 (11:50):
Well, because I'll
tell you why, because it tells
them what they want to hear.
And I'll tell you something.
When you have people, and I'lland I'll say this on quite a
there are a few rogue, and I'lluse the word rogue, people on
air that I don't know how theystill have their jobs.
Van Jones, great example, onCNN.
Gave a speech, says, I work forCNN, but I'm not CNN.
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I don't agree with everythingCNN does or says.
That's great.
But he got vilified because hedoesn't imbue and embody what
CNN wants to push.
He has stood against Ram Dani,he has stood against
anti-Semitism, he wears a yellowpin on air, and he gets grief
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for that by his by hiscolleagues.
You know, it's fascinating, andI'm just using that example, but
there's an every there's almostalways someone just to create,
you know, oh, we have balance.
They're not really creatingbalance.
And when you put ABC, forexample, and saying the view,
for example, is news, and thishas become a, you know, with all
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due respect, when when BarbaraWalters put this together, I got
what she's trying to do.
But you went from really tryingto be newsworthy to, let's say,
everyday people having womenaround a table, to a bitch.
SPEAKER_00 (13:08):
Well, it's an echo
chamber and it controls the
conversation.
That there's a massive dangerwhen people live in these myopic
bubbles.
They're they're without sharingfacts, they're they're they're
hypothecating in insanity overand over and over and
regurgitated.
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Like, look, let's be honest,David.
Investigative journalism, it'sexpensive, it's dying because
its reporters take time, money,lawyers, expert travel,
document, digging pressure frompowerful people.
I mean, there's real fatigue,and it's easier, it's easier.
SPEAKER_01 (13:48):
You're right, but
you know what?
But I gotta tell you somethingcrazy, okay?
So you have a situation nowwhere you know Donald Trump
stands up and says to everybody,we got to do something in
Africa.
Christians are gettingmassacred.
That doesn't make news, doesn'tmake the news.
A Jew pretends or thinks ofmaybe doing something in Gaza.
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It's you get hundreds andhundreds of media people
flocking to Israel to cover astory that doesn't make sense.
Is that zood over accuracy, oris it no, no, it's not zood
overaccuracy?
No, no, no, it's bias.
SPEAKER_00 (14:22):
So it's opinion
masquerading is news.
SPEAKER_01 (14:25):
Tell me, tell me,
tell me why, yes, but tell me
why when all of a sudden youhave the possibility, you have
the possibility of Kazakhstanjoining the Abraham Accords.
There's no comment from the fromcertain media.
Why?
Not important.
When you have a massacre inAfrica, not important.
SPEAKER_00 (14:46):
But is it is that
news fatigue?
Is that news fatigue?
Or or or or let me finish.
Or or is it or is it not theagenda of the vacuum that they
want to present?
SPEAKER_01 (15:01):
Yes, but it's also
news for clicks, it's news for
like dialing for dollars, newsfor clicks.
SPEAKER_00 (15:07):
I like that.
SPEAKER_01 (15:07):
Yeah, there we go.
You know, you want to go withthose cliches, go for it.
It's all about Stuart, and we'regonna wrap this up.
It's all about one thing dollarsand cents, clicks, it's all that
it's the corporations want themoney and they know where the
money comes from, and Trumpbashing worked for the longest
time, and you got fatigue now.
But when you talk about news andwhat it's supposed to deliver,
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why is it CNN?
When you travel around theworld, is one type of media, one
type of presentation, globalaffairs, you learn about
Australia, South America, otherparts of Europe, Africa, the
Middle East.
But when you watch CNN in NorthAmerica, you only get a handful
of countries that get into thenews.
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No one cares in North America.
Like that just shows you you'renot giving the news, you're
controlling to create whatDavid, David.
SPEAKER_00 (16:01):
It's called
corporate influence.
It's the collapse of localjournalism, the shallow
coverage, the shallow coverage.
It's it's it's it is the deathof failing trust in an echo
chamber.
That's it.
SPEAKER_01 (16:14):
It's more in my
mind, and we'll wrap it up right
over here, folks.
It's more than just thecorporations.
You got journalists who come outof the school who are being
taught by their journalismprofessors.
You have the power, you have theright, you need to tell people
what's right and wrong.
I don't know about you, butthat's not journalism.
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I have parents for that, I havea rabbi for that, I have other
spiritual people who can beinfluential in my life for the
media to tell me how I shouldrun my life, but they are lying
through their teeth.
They lied about COVID stuff,they lied about vaccine stuff,
they've lied about the laptop,they've lied about a whole bunch
of things.
And if you're gonna tell me thatthis is supposed to be reliable,
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ethical, I have another thinggoing.
SPEAKER_00 (17:01):
Stuart last word is
I think I got my point across
today.
SPEAKER_01 (17:08):
Well, ladies and
gentlemen, I didn't argue with
him too much.
Have yourself a wonderful day,everybody.
We'll catch you on Wednesday asStuart plays the music.
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