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Q&A: Did the State Prompt CBC’s Shift?

Day 4 · 1:06:53 · Dean Allison · Glen Motz · Rodney Palmer

  • 🤝 Palmer cannot name a single prompter but notes CBC joined the UK-origin Trusted News Initiative just before COVID.
  • 🌐 TNI supplied framing on “outing lies” and shame-and-blame tactics adopted across Globe, Post, Global, CTV, and others.
  • 👏 Motz and Allison thank him for confirming long-suspected bias and regret the short time slot.

Brief cross-examination on direction from government versus standards bodies.

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Transcript

Dean Allison · 1:06:53

You won't get any disagreement from me, but I'm going to turn it over to Glen Motz for a question.

Glen Motz · 1:06:58

Thank you very much for your, uh, your candor today. Your last statement is, you know, created a question for me. Now, as a state broadcaster, obviously CBC did not act alone. So are you suggesting that they were prompted by the state?

Rodney Palmer · 1:07:16

I don't know who prompted them. I do know that they shifted their allegiance from the people of Canada to an organization called the Trusted News Initiative, which was a standards organization which which virtually all mainstream media in North America and worldwide subscribe to, just prior to COVID. And this standards organization— and this is research that I've done— um, would give them story ideas such as how to out-lies on social media, how to shame and blame. I can guess that it was a directive that would have come from the president of the CBC. But I don't know.

Speaker B · 1:07:57

And this news background, like Canadian press, we would think of it, but you just mentioned, what was the name again?

Rodney Palmer · 1:08:06

The Trusted News Initiative.

Glen Motz · 1:08:08

Who is that?

Rodney Palmer · 1:08:09

It came out of England. It's a kind of a murky organization. It's difficult to research who they are, what they are, when they started. But they had You have to understand that this— the reason I'm talking here about the CBC, because it's a Crown corporation funded by federal tax dollars in its entirety, but it's not alone. What I've just said here could go for just about any news organization— The Globe and Mail, the National Post, Global TV, CTV, many of my former employers. I worked in these organizations and I saw them doing the same thing, and they were all members of this Trusted News Initiative.

Glen Motz · 1:08:45

Well, I just want to thank you for confirming what many of us have been saying for many, many years of the obvious bias by our mainstream media, especially our state-funded broadcaster. Um, so thank you for, uh, for your honesty today.

Speaker E · 1:09:01

You're welcome.

Dean Allison · 1:09:01

And thank you. And we are out of time. And Mr. Palmer, I had someone that sent me a video of you talking at a barbecue, and when I saw you, your conversation, I said— I, I talked to Sean, I said, I think we need to have him in to help frame what we're up against. And so you've done an awesome job. And like every witness, we really should have you here for an hour, but we didn't have the time and we need to make room for more time. So thank you very much for your presentation and, uh, I think probably confirming some of the, some of the things we suspected already, but we appreciate you laying it out in such an articulate way.

Glen Motz · 1:09:37

Yeah, so every witness's slide deck and photos will our farming exhibits, and we'll have a page for each witness with their, you know, video of their testimony and the exhibits. So thank you.