Greg Wycliffe - April 03, 2025


Rachel Gilmore Cancelled？？


Episode Stats


Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

184.39288

Word count

408

Sentence count

5

Harmful content

Misogyny

4

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Summary

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Rachel Gilmore has been let go from CTV, and we're here to talk about it. Rachel Gilmore's segment on CTV's election coverage was cancelled because she's a partisan, which is a bad look for CTV and for the viewers watching the election.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 cancel culture is a real thing and it's so crazy that it's the people who talk about free speech
00:00:04.320 the most who are the no guys rachel gilmore's segment getting canceled is not the same thing
00:00:10.220 as the cancel culture the politically motivated cancel culture we hear about rachel's segment 1.00
00:00:15.340 got canceled because she's bad at her job and also being that partisan would be a bad look for ctv 1.00
00:00:23.280 CTV is in the business of journalism, so you need people with credibility and journalistic
00:00:30.520 integrity, and Rachel Gilmore does not have much of that. For those who don't know, Rachel Gilmore
00:00:36.800 used to work for Global News, and because of one of her articles, James Topp served a notice of
00:00:41.900 libel to Global News. This is right before she got let go from Global. And while I was putting
00:00:48.260 together this video, I realized, oh yeah, here's some more misinformation that she spread before 1.00
00:00:52.460 saying that this mpp got punched in the face at a like trans protest and yeah this guy did not get
00:00:57.500 punched in the face he was in a crowd and got pushed and his megaphone hit his face if you're
00:01:02.540 a journalist the details are important rachel gilmore has also worked closely with anti-hate.ca
00:01:08.380 that has a very questionable reputation in terms of their journalistic integrity and they've also
00:01:13.340 admitted that they have a far left bias um we are very proudly anti-fascist and we focus on
00:01:20.140 the far right and although you might say well the ctv already has a far left bias yeah but the
00:01:25.180 people watching don't know that and they don't want to portray that and you especially don't
00:01:29.580 want that on a segment about the election where you should really appear to be non-partisan and
00:01:35.100 it goes without saying if you want a serious journalist who's going to be a fact checker
00:01:40.780 you need to be someone who's i don't know not overly emotional hey everyone thanks for having
00:01:46.060 me um this is obviously a very important topic and i have some big feelings about it if you're
00:01:52.540 a ctv executive and you want your program on the election taken seriously why would you take
00:01:57.660 someone no offense rachel but like right out of the movie from clueless some ditzy red-haired 1.00
00:02:03.580 chick hey my god guys let's talk about fact checking this was a business decision by ctv
00:02:09.580 who is in the business of journalistic integrity.