Ex-MSM employee calls out Covid alarmism in the media
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Summary
In this episode of The Andrew Lawton Show, host Andrew sits down with Anita Krishna, a former employee of Global News, to discuss the dangers of the COVID regime and its impact on Canadian journalism. They discuss the lack of objectivity in the early days of the regime, and how it led to the loss of her job at Global News.
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Welcome to Canada's most irreverent talk show. This is The Andrew Lawton Show, brought to you by True North.
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Hello everyone, welcome to another edition of The Andrew Lawton Show here on True North.
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It is Friday, May 26, 2023. I am, if you've been following True North's coverage in Alberta right now,
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I mean not right now when I'm recording this, but right now when you're watching this,
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covering the homestretch of the Alberta provincial election.
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So we thought we'd do something a little bit differently because we were pre-recording
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and really delve into a bigger picture issue that I think matters a lot to people in Canada,
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especially who are consumers of this show and know very well the perils of the mainstream media.
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But just to give it a bit of a setup here and some context, you may have seen in the course of the National Citizens Inquiry
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a testimony from one woman, a former employee of where I used to work, Global News,
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who spoke about the mainstream media pushing an agenda. Take a look.
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We do things like on the 5 o'clock news where we would just say,
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and sadly, another business has shut down due to COVID.
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And we were not actually holding anyone to account saying, is what we're doing fair?
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You know, when people are using plexiglass and sitting outside,
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and that, you know, you can go up to the counter in order, but you can't have a waitress come to you
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or you've got a mask, you know, all the things that didn't make any sense.
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We were just shoving it in your face like it was something you needed to accept.
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Rather than questioning, is this really making sense for a business owner,
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We just, as far as I'm concerned, shoved propaganda in your face.
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That woman is Anita Krishna, whose outspoken criticism of the COVID era
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and the COVID regime ultimately cost her her job in the control room at Global News.
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And then she had a very powerful and, I think, very impactful testimony
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before the National Citizens Inquiry last week,
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and joins us now to expand on that and perhaps delve even further into it.
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Now, you and I were just chatting a little bit before the show began,
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and I've mentioned it to my audience, but just so everyone's on the same page,
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I did a talk radio show for Chorus, which ended up merging with Global.
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And the fact that my show was cancelled, I think,
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says a fair bit about the relationship near the end of it.
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It's also the company that Danielle Smith ultimately walked away from,
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having increasing issues with the micromanaging of what she was allowed to talk about on her show,
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and you and I, though, were in very different cases because you weren't even on camera at Global.
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You weren't even being punished for things you said on air.
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I mean, I've said this many times in other podcasts.
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I press the buttons and make the newscast happen.
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And I was just questioning why we were not reporting such basic things to the public,
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But in no way, shape, or form was I airing this stuff.
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I mean, I was not broadcasting my own material.
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Well, something happened later, which I could talk about.
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Like, we are missing pieces of the COVID narrative.
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Why are we only telling this one side of the story?
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That's the whole foundation of journalism, is to present both sides.
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Yeah, and it was increasingly clear through the COVID era,
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which I can't really come up with a better name for it,
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that all of a sudden, that natural skeptical instinct that journalists have,
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or are supposed to have, that contrarian impulse to challenge authority, just vanished.
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And a lot of the early COVID journalism, and to some extent,
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maybe you can excuse this in the immediate beginning of this,
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It was just parroting whatever edict had come down from Teresa Tam,
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or Justin Trudeau, or Doug Ford, or whoever the Ontario person was at the beginning.
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But ultimately, that was, I think, what a lot of the early COVID journalism was.
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Well, a great deal of it, you could probably argue, is parroting, right, with any story.
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So, like, if the newsroom is going with a certain angle on a car accident or something,
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if they say five injured, and it was caused by a drunk driver,
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then as all the other newscasts go along, then that's what we report.
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If we get some information in the newsroom that,
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oh, actually, it wasn't a drunk driver, it was something else caused the accident,
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So, there is a degree of parroting, because you do go with what the general consensus is,
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but this was parroting to the detriment of humanity.
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And that's what we needed to ask, what's going on.
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Yeah, and let me ask about your trajectory here,
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because from my understanding, you were a skeptic from,
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I don't know if it was day one, but pretty close to day one.
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I was, well, I mean, people might laugh and say it was my gut instinct,
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but it was just like, wow, you know, like, you know, in March,
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when we all went crazy in the beginning of March,
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spring break is canceled, kids have to stay home for an extra two weeks,
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and especially, I felt they were manipulating this aspect of children.
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Children can get it, so what are you going to do?
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I'm a mother, you were trying to scare mothers,
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It seemed like, what are you, what are you, how can we all do in all this?
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The airlines and the sports teams and all the, and everybody's cracking down,
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That's what made me question from the beginning.
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Yeah, and it was interesting, because I remember it was the March 13th,
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if I recall, which was a Friday, and things were starting to brew,
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but hadn't really gotten to the point where things were canceled,
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Like, I was recording a bunch of interviews in Toronto,
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and, you know, it was all that sort of joking, like,
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because it hadn't really started to affect us in the way that it would
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for the next, you know, two, two and a half, three, and beyond years.
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And I think for people in the media, there was, again, this,
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okay, do we report on this like we report on a flood,
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or like we report on a wildfire, where we're all in this together,
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it's an emergency, our job is as a public broadcaster,
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And I don't think many really went into that category.
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I think they treated it as disaster journalism and crisis journalism,
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You wish that you would have seen more pushback against the narrative.
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Well, look, I'm, just to even put myself out there,
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I mean, I, in the early days, had the view that I don't know what's going on.
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what we're told to be bodies piling up in China, later Iran and Italy.
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But I didn't go to the, you know, is this really real?
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I sort of took the attitude that when your house is on fire, you, you know,
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or it looks like it's on fire, you try to treat that before you start to say,
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And then I think it was, you know, certainly within the first few weeks,
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after two weeks to flatten the curve was proven to be a lie,
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that I started to become a lot, well, not started.
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I started to become entirely intolerant of this, the mainstream narrative.
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And I think even though there were things I was personally willing to do,
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That transition from, you know, accepting the narrative
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to questioning the narrative still has not happened.
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Yeah, no, and they're not going to admit to it now.
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I mean, I admit that in the beginning when we'd see pictures from Italy
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But to move full steam ahead and to stay at home
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we were doing all that March 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th,
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that whole week we were telling people to social distance.
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Every element of this had already almost been structured
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hey, the people who were going to take it already took it.
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And the fact that they hid medications from people
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all the while trying to pretend that you were looking after our health,
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that we at Global News absolutely hid that from you.
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There's no way we were going to talk about hydroxychloroquine,
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Because I think when you see a lot of the people now
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about getting the 17th booster, about all of that,
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I think a lot of the people are genuinely terrified.
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And I think it's the media and politicians that have stoked that fear,
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as being disease vectors rather than human beings.
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I'm curious which camp you think these people fall into.
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Or are they people that bought into the fear themselves
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It's not to say that everybody's evil and conspiring, right?
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Like we're just the minions that work in the newsroom.
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Are you really going to believe that you're part of a system
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So when you put your little provincial health officer on the air
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and she's telling you to do all these things to stay safe,
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you're not allowed to do that when you're a journalist.
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and one of the guys involved in the investigation,
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actually works at the lab with Echo Health Alliance,
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Then you see an article that comes out and says,
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where we're allowed to shrug our shoulders and go,
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Did your skepticism of the mainstream media begin with COVID
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or was this already brewing in you and your experience
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I have to say I am not any smarter than anyone else.
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You went in and just pushed the buttons and that was the job.
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and whenever I saw there was a fire or a mudslide
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we would go out there and try to news gather as normal
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and I don't think people there thought they were.
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It's that there's another element to what's going on in the world
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that perhaps there are criminals maybe running things
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feeding us information that we didn't really think about before.
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Like I remember working through the anthrax scare
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and then when you kind of look a little bit deeper
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you know, you get the, I'm sure you worked on this,
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Yeah, it's just like this raw, steady, nonstop stream
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of headlines and these small, yeah, little nubs of stories.
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Yeah, yeah, you're constantly seeing these things
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and I saw Pfizer approves vaccine for five to 11 year olds
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and I was like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
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this isn't even approved by Health Canada, this vaccine,
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but that's another thing we don't tell you, right?
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But anyway, when I saw that for children, as you know,
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I was like, I just don't want people to mess with children
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Like they can't make the decisions for themselves
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And I was starting to say in the newsroom to people,
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But the only, I just only recently found out
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So I don't know, is this information coming from top down
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and it's meant to make us report what they want us to?
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I just mean they don't understand the structure
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And you're right, you know, when a reporter is going out
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and interviewing someone at the scene of a car crash,
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I don't think the reporter is being necessarily biased.
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But I think often bias is most readily apparent
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by which all these politicians should be acting?
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And again, I don't think that individual people
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were being fed a script that came down from like,
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is increasingly attracting a certain type of person.
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you see these softball questions thrown at the people,
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but they were very supportive of the narrative, right?
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And they're very mean to people like Daniel Smith
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I talked about this in a speech I gave in the convoy.
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They had a guy on CTV who was just spoken to so rudely
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oh, ta-ta-ta-ta on the wires from Klaus Schwab.
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where is that information coming from specifically with COVID?
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Because with COVID, they have penetrated everything.
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we see all our institutions are not backing us up.
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all the people trying so hard to get on with their lives
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Yeah, and I think that there is an additional dimension
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which is just the increasing targeting of certain journalists.
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a climate change reporter and a climate change bureau,
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and you've got government grant money towards this.
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in people covering a very politically charged issue like that,
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you know that their job is to advance one particular narrative about it.
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hmm, is all of the so-called scientific consensus