Retired colonel says media act as shills for gov’t as Canadians sound off on filtering of news
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Retired Lt. Col. David Redman said the CBC, CTV, and Global News all were in effect working for the federal government during the COVID-19 pandemic but were on the ‘wrong side of the propaganda curve.’
(LifeSiteNews) — A retired Canadian colonel testified that legacy media outlets are “ministries of propaganda” while at the same time the federal government’s research shows that Canadians do not want members of the cabinet deciding what news is “fake” or not.
Retired Canadian Lt. Col. David Redman over a week ago told a Senate committee investigating internet regulation that mainstream media during the COVID crisis of the past three years did not accurately report news about the government’s actions.
Meanwhile, according to Blacklock’s Reporter, a report by the federal Communications Security Establishment titled Study on Online Disinformation Advertising Creative Testing noted how internet users from eight online focus groups said they were smart enough to know what is and is not misinformation online.
“Many participants expressed reservations about the Government of Canada telling Canadians what is true or false,” said the report, adding that the users suggested the focus should be on “helping Canadians identify misinformation through tips and tricks, being careful to provide neutral information without any political lens.”
The report also noted that most participants were “confident” that they could tell the “difference between real and false information you can see on the internet at least most of the time.”
The research also concluded that few if any people would go online to a Government of Canada “website for information.”
Last Tuesday, a former federal judge and retired Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) chair Konrad von Finckenstein said during testimony at a Senate committee about legislation regulating the internet, “What is disinformation to one person is not to another.”