MEDIA ANALYSIS
The media don’t make the news, they simply report it, right?
Some people actually believe that. They believe the media objectively and impartially report what’s going on in the world, with agenda, bias or spin. The Mass Media promote this narrative that they report the truth.
In reality, journalists have an angle. Always. We have to.
A reporter for the Financial Times or the Wall Street Journal won’t produce the same news as a reporter on the same event for Chatelaine or the New Yorker.
From the same media briefing on 11 June 2020:
Trudeau Expresses Confidence in RCMP Commissioner Amid Racism Debate
Trudeau Contradicts Commissioner Lucki Over Existence of Systemic Racism in the RCMP
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Operator: Next question, Daniel Leblanc, The Globe and Mail. Line open.
Leblanc: Hello, Mister Trudeau. You selected Brenda Lucki to be Commissioner of the RCMP two years ago. She said yesterday in a number of media interviews that she’s still struggling with the term “systemic racism” and the actual definition of this. Do you still have confidence in her to lead the RCMP into necessary reforms in coming weeks, months and years?
Trudeau: We’re facing a really important time in our country right now, where we are recognizing what many Indigenous Canadians and racialized Canadians have known for a long time: that there is systemic discrimination right across our country, in every part of our country, and in our institutions.
And recognizing that is difficult. And we need to make sure that we are moving forward in really meaningful ways. And that’s also going to be difficult, which is why I know Commissioner Lucki and our government and all Canadians are going to be working with racialized Canadians and Indigenous Canadians to do more, to continue the work needed to do.
I have confidence in Commissioner Lucki.
And I know that the changes that she has already begun to bring to our national police force, and the work that we’re going to be doing together in the coming months, is going to make a huge difference in combating systemic racism and reducing it in this country.
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Tom Parry, CBC News: Hi, Prime Minister. Tom Perry, CBC. You were talking before about systemic racism being present across Canada and within its institutions. I’d like to ask you specifically: Do you think systemic racism is an issue within the RCMP, and if it is, how do you root it out?
Trudeau: OK.Systemic racism is an issue right across the country, in all our institutions, including in all our police forces, including in the RCMP.
That’s what systemic racism is.
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Source: Justin Trudeau, Media Briefing, 11 June 2020
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