26 Replies to “Shocker! Canadians Don’t Trust Justin’s Media”

  1. When you have to get honest reporting from foreign countries or alternative reliable sources, your making everything far worse for it’s citizens as your not listening to reality for the fantasy world that you’ve generated.
    You’ve destroyed our trust in the healthcare system and using foreign agencies as your experts like China.
    Even some heath officials said they just read what was in front of them

  2. Blacklocks requires creating a paid membership in order to view. Why don’t you give is a bit of a preview at least instead of just a link?

    1. There is a preview paragraph that gives the gist of the story. I thought it was hard to miss.

      1. The headline here gave the gist of the story. The preview paragraph didn’t provide much else. Thankfully Claudnificent had a useful reply.

    2. You should get a subscription it is the best money you will pay on Canadian Politics.

      “Only a third of Canadians rate news media trustworthy and balanced, says in-house CRTC research. The latest data follow Statistics Canada figures showing reporters are considered less reliable than politicians or lawyers.

      “Canadians’ impressions of the quality, variety and depth of content as well as trust in media are relatively weak,” said the Public Opinion Research Tracker. Respondents were not asked what prompted skepticism over the reliability of newsrooms.

      “Nearly half, 45 percent, rely on Canadian news media to help them understand what is going on in the world and that news programming covers a diverse range of issues and topics,” said Research Tracker. “Fewer agree that they trust the information provided by news media in Canada (36 percent), that the types of news programming offers a variety of perspectives (36 percent) and that they are satisfied with the quality of information and analysis offered by Canadian news media (37 percent).”

      Findings were based on questionnaires with 2,561 people nationwide. Ipsos Limited was paid $114,714 for the survey.

      “The primary objective of the research is to gain a better understanding of the views of Canadians with respect to their broadcasting, online and telecommunications services and other matters of strategic importance to the CRTC,” wrote researchers. “An essential component of the research is to ensure the inclusion and representation of all Canadians.”

      Research Tracker data follow a StatsCan report last November 14 that found news media were rated less reliable than politicians, lawyers or police. Asked, “How much confidence do you have in the Canadian media?” less than a third of Canadians nationwide, 31 percent, expressed a “good or great deal of confidence in media.”

      Canadians by comparison were more likely to trust Parliament (32 percent), the courts (46 percent), the school system (47 percent) and police (62 percent). Findings were drawn from Canadian Social Survey questionnaires.

      Trust ratings in media ranged as low as 23 percent among young Canadians under 34. Findings by region also identified widespread skepticism of journalism.

      Canadians with a “good or great deal of confidence” in newsrooms numbered as few as 24 percent in Alberta followed by Manitoba (25 percent), Saskatchewan (29 percent), Ontario and New Brunswick (30 percent), British Columbia and Nova Scotia (31 percent), Newfoundland and Labrador (33 percent), Québec (39 percent) and Prince Edward Island (42 percent).

      “Canada is facing not one news crisis but two,” Jeanette Ageson, publisher of the Vancouver news site The Tyee, testified at 2022 hearings of the Commons heritage committee. “One is financial and the other is the crisis of mistrust.”

      “Canadians are expressing unprecedented distrust towards the news and the reporters who deliver it,” said Ageson, speaking on behalf of the Independent Online News Publishers of Canada. “Canadians need to know who is funding the news they receive and on what terms.””

  3. The internet is to official news sources why Gutenberg’s printing press was to the Catholic church. Yes there will always those who believe the pope is infallible but anyone with a brain knows the media is imply part of the power elite and thus lies with impunity.

    1. For the record, the pope’s infallibility is limited to matters of faith and doctrine. When he strays into political topics, he is just as fallible as anyone else, and in the current pope’s case, more so.

  4. Research scientists and the financial industry are required to declare any conflicts of interest. Perhaps journalists should be required to do something similar at the bottom of their columns. Examples: under conflict of interest and full disclosure guidelines journalists must declare,

    -if they or their employer receives subsidies from the government, government employee, government consultant or contractor.

    – if they or their immediate family are/have been employed by a politician.

    -if they or their immediate family are/have been married or lived common law with a politician or government employee, consultant or contractor.

    – if they have ever been a member or on the board of a charity, NGO or foundation associated with a politician.

    – if they have ever received a paycheck, grant, stipend or other payment associated with an industry they are reporting on (energy, pharmaceutical, consultant, bank etc.)

    – if you have donated to a political party.

    I suspect that the majority of Canada’s Parliamentary press gallery and other reporters in central Canada would have extensive declarations at the bottom of their columns.

    1. Beat me to it LC – but should be top of byline – right beside their name –

      “I am a recipient of government funding ”

      IF CPC can with a majority, they ought to pass a law requiring this

      1. Yes. I don’t really mind if they have a conflict of interest…I just think it’s fair that we all know what conflicts of interest they have to understand the journalist’s point of view.

  5. The Blacklock blurb states that it is a “crisis of mistrust” because two thirds polled don’t trust the media.
    I call it a “victory of mistrust” because it means many people are waking up.

    1. Good point.
      Media has never been particularly trustworthy, and of course always biased. Although it is getting worse and worse as time goes by.

  6. Anytime I’m feeling down I watch the Poilevre orchard murder. Perks me up all the time.
    I’ve been told the reporter’s chalk outline is still visible.

  7. The only good thing about Covid was how many people were woken by the government revealing who and what they are. In Canada, the media is just an extension of government.

    2. And, how many people were, in fact, NPCs that went along with the narrative. A number of “friends” were outed as enemies.

  8. “Canada is facing not one news crisis but two. One is financial and the other is the crisis of mistrust.”

    I would suggest that these are likely symptoms of one problem.

  10. The current MSM in the Western World has made itself irrelevant with deliberate lies , lying by omission, distortion of facts, and has become like Pravda of the old Soviet Union following orders from their local governments.

    If you want truthful information you will not get it from ANY of the mainstream media and must utilise alternative media and form your own consensus of what is true and what is false.

    BTW : Tucker Carlson’s interview of Vladimir Putin https://tuckercarlson.com/ beginning at 6:00PM EST.

    1. Carlson-Putin interview blow-back begins … even before the interview is aired ! You would almost think the globalist establishment had something to hide?

      https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/02/08/hungary-vows-to-block-eu-sanctions-against-tucker-carlson-over-putin-interview/

      * Left-wing and globalist establishment loses it’s mind over Carlson – Putin interview
      * EU travel ban to be imposed Tucker Carlson
      * EU wants to sanction Carlson …perhaps like Trudeau did with Truckers Convoy , freeze his credit cards ?
      * US news media is already painting Carlson as a communist traitor

  11. “reporters are considered less reliable than politicians or lawyers”

    Makes me wonder where used car sales person fits in.

  12. Wonder if percentage that trusts the bought-and-paid-for media might just be bought-and-paid-for too?

  13. Always had a thing for Sandie R. though. Have not watched in years.
    Sandie, if coding does not work, hit me up with a reply, we can have a chat about the good old days, when journalist cared. Lloyd Robertson’s name might come up, hey maybe even Harvey K.
    No matter, you were a classy act.

  14. Only three years ago, a Goebbels Network and UNIFOR sponsored survey claimed over 70% trusted the news.

    Even before that I didn’t trust them to honestly report on the local flower show.

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