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* WHAT’S ENDING INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM?

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Top notch CBC journalists—Trish Wood, Marianne Klowak, and Rodney Palmer—spill the beans. All three retired in disgust.

To understand what’s happened to journalism, we can point to the Trusted News Initiative (TNI), a global news brokerage claiming to combat misinformation and fake news. TNI was formed in 2019 because public trust in media was only 29%. A shotgun wedding transpired between all legacy media and all big tech, including Facebook and Google. The motive was information control. When COVID hit, the vaccine failed and public trust sank even lower. The TNI propaganda machine went into overdrive pushing “misinformation” paranoia. They needed people to stay obedient, fearful, and arguing among ourselves. Instead, many of us turned to researchers, ethical scientists, medical activists and citizen journalists who had the facts.

How TNI works: editors and reporters send news stories to TNI for approval before the information can be released. If TNI doesn’t approve, the story is red-penned and sent back. When they don’t like the expert a reporter is quoting, the reporter is told to use their in-house expert instead. Do you notice that TV news presenters all say the exact same message, same phrases, same sentences, all at the same time? That’s not “trustworthy”, it’s Orwell’s Ministry of Truth: you only know what we tell you.

We must ask, what will censorship accomplish? If they manage to end free speech, what then?  

TNI ended Marianne Klowak’s career. On the Trish Wood is Critical podcast (episode 159), Klowak said, “A number of stories that I put forward were blocked…it seemed to me as a journalist who’d been there 34 years, it’s like the rules had changed so quickly that it left me dizzy.” A scrupulous and trusted reporter, Klowak “had a show all put together about the vaccine injured, with interviewed experts who said the vaccine was a problem, and the CBC brass killed it. I took my concerns to the managing editor and senior executives but they didn’t care. Worse, CBC took the stance that anybody saying the vaccines were a problem was lying.” 

Before Trish Wood retired, she hosted The Fifth Estate and did award-winning investigative reporting for over 20 years. Talking with veteran reporter Rodney Palmer (episode 158), Wood said, “This generation of new journalists aren’t trained to think outside the box. It’s not in a real journalist’s DNA to promote anything as ‘safe and effective’. The media no longer report fairly on things that require debate.”

Palmer was less diplomatic: “I had to stop listening to the CBC. I got a sore throat from screaming at the radio while I was alone in my car, because I know things to be true and they were saying the opposite and it was bloody dangerous! What we’re hearing is propaganda and false messaging on behalf of the government.”

TNI is protecting globalist plans from exposure–with help from a stable of lazy, well-paid imbeciles who no longer care about honesty or integrity. Luckily, trusted citizen journalists have our backs. Get to know some of them in this article. And a few more under the Research Links page.

* What Would Ma Murray Think?

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by B. H. Link (local professional writing under a pseudonym)

Some of us grew up in homes where grownups faithfully watched the evening news, read the daily city newspaper, and never thought to doubt how much was true. My dear mum spoke admiringly of “Peter” (Mansbridge, a former CBC news anchor) on a first-name basis; he was her trusted source for all things political. We later scoffed at those who would believe the ‘crazy talk’ on sources like U.S. Fox News. We felt informed about news events. Occasionally we’d come across people with ‘out there’ ideas, and an offhand dismissal seemed reasonable.

Little did we know.

Onward we venture into 2025 amid news from almost-endless sources worldwide. Strangely, free speech doesn’t feel very free anymore and we are too-often careful, even fearful, about voicing independent thoughts. Paradoxically it’s both easier and harder to find information AND to discern what appears to be true. With humility and courage we might question: What seems to be true? Who benefits from this message? Who funded this source? What kind of evidence is offered to support these ideas? Is it biased opinion, or an attempt to present more than one side for balance? What perspectives are being withheld, disparaged or dismissed, and why?

Media influence on our lives is HUGE; we can think we hold independent beliefs without realizing how some have been carefully fed to us over time. Simple slogans repeated strategically is a proven psychological manipulation technique. Accompanied by fear, even more powerful. Our attention is drawn to the ‘latest thing’; meanwhile far-reaching events occur behind the scenes and few notice.

The media was long considered an important check against those who might abuse power. Yet today reporters, announcers, editors and more from conventional media now cooperate with, and are generously funded by, governments and big corporations. Particularly Big Pharma. So a new term was coined: “censorship industrial complex”.

Rodney Palmer (now at Talk Nation Radio) is one of several whistleblowing journalists who testified at the National Citizens Inquiry (NCI). Referring to CBC misrepresentation of the Ottawa Freedom Convoy, he stated, “They took an exceptional moment to decide they would not be journalists, that instead they would be public health messengers … and the result is that Canada’s national broadcaster has morphed into a state broadcaster. And I worked in countries where there were state broadcasters – China, Syria, Malawi, North Korea – it’s promoting government policy without question, while censoring, belittling and shaming learned Canadians who dare to object and inform us of the truth. Bad journalism is incompetence but propaganda is a betrayal. And that’s what CBC has done, it betrayed us all.”   

Strong words. It’s worth questioning why we see no mention of the NCI on TV news, in the Sun or Province, or even in the BRLN. It was only an unprecedented citizen-funded, volunteer-organized inquiry with hundreds of witnesses exposing harmful and ongoing impacts of the Canadian Covid 19 response. Significant and relevant are understatements. And the MSM silence is deafening.

See for yourself: nationalcitizensinquiry.ca    

 (article courtesy of Connecting the Dots newsletter, January 2025)

* Buying an Election Costs $150 Million ~ China Wants Carney

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“The choice right now is globalism or nation.” ~ Dan Knight on Substack

Mark Carney just bought CBC preferential election coverage for $150 million—and it comes as no surprise to hear the CBC aligning with China’s reaction to Trump’s tariffs. The Liberal Government has allowed Canada to go so far down the communist hole that without a doubt this election is about China openly directing Carney’s campaign and Canada allowing itself to accept the cowardly position of vassal state.

I’m a recovering CBC addict who listened to Radio One and watched CBC news for decades until it became crystal clear during COVID how compromised the so-called “nation’s broadcaster” had become—

–and how numb and dumb I had become for listening to it.

By 2021, I migrated over to Twitter (now X) and quickly realized that high quality citizen journalism was flourishing. Some phenomenal citizen journalists are working online, posting their research with panache and honesty. They dig, then provide receipts and links; they include the history and context of the topic so you understand the big picture. Often their work shocked me into questioning what I know. I started to become curious again.

Citizen journos like Andy Lee and Holly Doan have bigger audience share than the CBC –because they fill in missing information, expose lies and corruption—every single day. And they expose the old media for lying by omission.

So I cancelled cable and quit watching TV and felt such a weight lift off my shoulders it was like I’d finally left an abusive partner. I had believed the CBC’s shoddy reporting for years and it made me bewildered how I’d allowed it for so long.  

The call to defund the CBC pertains to increasing expectations of high standards from the media we trust—we’re living in the Age of Information and it’s time to up our game. We have to be smart, informed, mentally-well and media literate. Did you know that the Danes teach media literacy to grade school students? Why aren’t we doing that here?

People who get all their information and lousy reporting from old media sources, like I used to do, are shockingly brainwashed and unable to ask questions or think critically. Without doing even one minute of my own research, I used to believe that Tucker Carlson was a right wing extremist, that Fox News was evil, that Stephen Harper was a monster, that Jordan Peterson is a woman hater. The list goes on.

Since most people are now seeking information from independent sources, old media — TV, magazines and newspapers — are hanging on for dear life. They peddle propaganda, Liberal bias, and ideological brainwashing in order to keep advertising dollars and lavish government subsidies coming in. When I tune in to the CBC now, their tired little coven of forever-pundits remind me of the Addams Family.

In stark contrast, during COVID, citizen journalists gathered the scientific data that revealed that the mRNA “vaccine” is a failed product that didn’t prevent anything but did cause disease, injury and sudden deaths, even in the young and healthy.

They exposed deep rot and corruption within science and vaccinology. And they exposed the ways that Canadian healthcare — both federal and provincial — is rapidly moving against human rights. The CBC has been silent about everything.

Frustration over the total blackout of crucial information is why indie journalism is essential and why some people take their protest right to the source — which the CBC also doesn’t report, of course.

The Brits were doing the same at the BBC. They protested in the streets. They dug up facts about outrageous corruption and big money payouts from big pharma to politicians and the healthcare system. Again, information blackout, nothing reported.

My red line: I can’t trust anybody, journalist or otherwise, who would lie so profoundly to me. Blind and loyal no more, I want to see the CBC News defunded, de-platformed, and preferably sent to the dustbin of history–along with the Liberal party swamp that adores China and is so far down the communist hole they cannot protect this country.

The CBC can peddle its wares in the information marketplace and either sink or swim. The small minority who still want to fund it can pay for it in their cable package. My taxes must not go toward low quality information that actively manipulates, misinforms and misleads. I’ll take high quality indie journalism over corporate swill any day of the week.

Most of us are busy teaching ourselves to be smart consumers of information. The Information Age is racing forward, as are techniques of information warfare. We either rise to the challenge by learning from excellent citizen activists like Sam Cooper who are working on our behalf or we sit passively before the idiot box and accept our ignorance and servitude.