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Trudeau Bribes The Media Again · Radio Baloney - The Richie Baloney Show!

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  Well, Trudeau's buying the corporate media once again. This is after already having
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  handed out hundreds of millions of dollars to them. But what else is he
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  gonna do? It's the only thing he's good at. This is from Anmichaelgeist
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  dot Ca. It says Bill C eighteen bailout. Government announces plans to pay
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  for thirty five percent of journalist costs for news outlets, as it more than
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  doubles tax credit per employee. So why does it say Bill C eighteen bailout?
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  Well, Bill C eighteen is the Online News Act, and that is
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  of course what's responsible for Meta blocking Canadian news and for Google promising to do
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  so as well in the future. Now, the Online News Act is passed
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  in Parliament, but it hasn't actually been enacted yet, and it probably won't
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  be till next year at some point. And I think with all the controversy
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  around it, they're trying to buy time, just like they buy the media.
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  And although Meta has already blocked Canadian news links on Facebook Instagram, they
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  got ahead of the game. So although they've already done it, Google has
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  said they won't do it until the bill is actually enacted. And what does
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  this do while it denies Canadian media the free advertising they would get by allowing
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  people to share their content on social media, which would then link back to
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  their own websites where they could monetize those people to advertisers. The purpose of
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  the Online News Act was to extort money from the social media companies for allowing
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  Canadian news media to get free advertising on their platforms. It doesn't make any
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  sense. It's like legislating that restaurants have to pay the customers. And of
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  course this is bad for Canadian news media, but particularly those independent voices that
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  are not so friendly and chummy with the Trudeau liberals because they're not going to
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  be getting any bailouts from the government. Let me tell you, I mean,
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  Trudeau's not going to pay anybody to criticize them, or at least not
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  criticize them too harshly. But the article says the government has taken the first
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  step to creating a bailout for its disastrous Bill C eighteen by agreeing to News
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  Media Canada demands to increase the support under the Labor Journalism Tax credit. While
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  the current system covers twenty five percent of journalist costs, up to fifty five
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  thousand per employee or thirteen thousand, seven hundred and fifty dollars. The government's
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  fall Economic statement increases both the percentage covered and cap per employee. Under the
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  new system, which is retroactive to the start of the year, qualified Canadian
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  journalism organizations which covers print and digital but not broadcasters, can now claim thirty
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  five percent of the costs of journalist expenditures up to eighty five thousand dollars per
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  employee. This increases the support to up to twenty nine thousand, seven hundred
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  and fifty dollars per employee, or an increase of one hundred and sixteen percent.
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  This new support will run for four years at a cost of one hundred
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  and twenty nine million sixty million this year alone. Now this is all just
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  after meta, Facebook, Instagram, block links. What happens after Google does
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  it. But if you think that corporate media in Canada is worried, I
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  don't think they are. They know that Trudeau's going to bail them out,
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  and I'm sure Trudeau will get nothing in return. Let's see it continues that
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  this raises enormous concerns about the independence of Canadian media. While the government claims
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  this is being done to ensure a quote strong and independent wink wink press.
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  It's not hard to see how the opposite may be true. In fact,
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  it may be obvious, and I'm sure that Trudeau was not unhappy with any
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  of this. In fact, it's probably the preferable option. The corporate media
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  is going to be fine, and they're also going to know who their paymaster
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  is. As for that independent press like Rebel News, True North Counter Signal,
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  well, they're not getting any favors from the government and it hurts them.
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  And guess what, Trudeau doesn't like them. Here's him refusing to answer
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  a question from a Rebel News reporter quite frankly, you're I won't call it
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  a media organization, your group of individuals. So that's the level of disdain
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  that he has for accredited news organizations that dare to be adversarial to him.
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  So to finish this off, I think Trudeau was perfectly happy with this outcome
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  where the corporate media is once again beholden to him. And I'm not saying
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  that he engineered this outcome or that he's smart enough to engineer this outcome,
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  but I do think that he's more than happy to take a gain from Canada's
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  loss. Anyway, that's all I'm going to say about that. Please subscribe,
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  that. I will see you next time. Fo