by Joe Martino, Information Liberation:
We are seeing the end of the days where mainstream media is not held accountable and can get away with lying by omission. Their power is slipping and they hate it.
Twitter recently began adding labels to various news organizations that are publically or government funded, and some are taking great issue with it.
Twitter defines a “government-funded” media outlet as an outlet “where the government provides some or all of the outlet’s funding and may have varying degrees of government involvement over editorial content.”
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CBC in Canada is one of the latest organizations to receive the rating, initially being labelled “government-funded media,” but now labelled as “69% government-funded media.”
This of course is entirely true. CBC received $1.24 billion in 2021-2022 in federal government funding. This sum is for all of CBCs content, not just news, but it doesn’t change the fact that CBC News is largely funded by government money.
CBC was not happy about the label and publicly took to Twitter stating:
“Our journalism is impartial and independent. To suggest otherwise is untrue. That is why we are pausing our activities on @Twitter”
They followed up with an article stating:
“We cannot in good conscience continue to post fact-based news and information to Twitter, or engage on it, while a false impression of government involvement in our work is allowed to stand.”
They are stating that by being labelled “government-funded” people will assume they won’t be impartial. But who would decide if someone is impartial? How would we know other than to look at the type of content CBC produces? Doesn’t CBC realize people think they are partial because of their heavy bias on events like COVID and the Freedom Convoy?
CBC and the rest of the mainstream media world had little issue supporting the all-out ban of Russia Today on Big Tech at the start of the Russia-Ukraine war because RT is “Russian state-sponsored.” But now that they are being given that label and it’s suddenly a problem?
This is where I think the word ‘independent’ is used too loosely. No one is suggesting there is a corporation or government official controlling every story that comes out of the CBC, but to think there isn’t a culture of omission and propaganda that protects the government on important issues is disingenuous. Further, it’s a matter of public record that governments have used their connections with mainstream media organizations to change stories. How do we know CBC isn’t affected by this?
Every country uses propaganda and it’s very rare mainstream media outlets are going to call it out regularly. In fact, they are how the propaganda disseminates.
People are losing trust in mainstream media for this very reason. But for some reason, the institution of mainstream media remains too blind to recognize the game they are part of. Have they reflected on how many things they were wrong about during COVID? Or are they pretending that never happened?
BBC News and NPR were both recently labelled by Twitter as well. The move upset NPR so much that they decided to leave Twitter. The BBC objected to the labelling but has stuck around.
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