The Agenda with Steve Paikin (Audio) - How Do We Reverse the Distrust in Media?

Episode Date: April 30, 2024

Former national news anchor Lloyd Robertson gives us his thoughts on the importance of media literacy and what news sources you should trust and why.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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In my view, that should have been in place a long time ago. Secondly, there's so much out there on social media, and so much of it is, frankly, just garbage. You can't believe it. Look at the hoaxes that were floating around about the moon landing being a hoax, 9-11 being a hoax out and that was supposedly backed up by credible authorities good information and it was all nonsense because there is evidence hard evidence to the contrary of course so my best advice on this would be to go for the institutions you grew up with and learned to trust, like TVO, like CBC, CTV, National Systems, Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, what have you, your local paper.

Because there you get journalism that is verified by credible journalists who moderate it, and they are careful about what they publish what they put out you can be sure that facts are facts not alternative facts but real facts that's point two point three is that i think you should take seriously being a good citizen because you're a voter you're going to have to make decisions about things. I know that sounds maybe boring, but it's a job that every citizen in a democracy has to take seriously if you want to get the government.

You know, we say we get the government we deserve. Well, we get the government we vote for. So please keep that in mind. Well, we get the government we vote for. So please keep that in mind.