Juno News - November 22, 2019The Candice Malcolm Show： The mainstream media keeps failing
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Don Cherry is back, and this time he is uncensored. The mainstream media in Canada keep failing despite receiving billions in tax dollars. Canada turns its back on Israel at the UN, and Justin Trudeau finds another excuse to massively increase the size of government.
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Don Cherry is back, and this time he is uncensored.
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The mainstream media in Canada keep failing despite receiving billions in tax dollars.
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and Justin Trudeau finds another excuse to massively increase the size of government.
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I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.
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We have a lot to get to today, so let's get right to it.
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Don Cherry has launched his own podcast on Spotify.
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You can find it there. It's called Grapevine, and I love this product.
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You know, Don Cherry unfairly got removed from his position at Sportsnet.
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He didn't even have the opportunity to address his fans,
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to talk about what happened, to say it from his own perspective.
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Sportsnet just gave him the axe, kicked him off Hockey Night in Canada
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after he'd been hosting that show for three decades, almost four decades.
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Completely unjustified and unfair, but guess what?
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and this is, again, this is the great thing about today's media landscape,
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is that you no longer have to go work for a big network.
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You no longer have to sit at a desk with tons of producers, tons of editors,
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tons of overpaid bosses sitting over you, telling you what you can and cannot say.
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He's free, and he can say exactly what he wanted.
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I listened to it, and the funny thing is, it's not controversial.
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There's nothing really controversial that happens.
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Cherry very quickly, very briefly discusses the brouhaha over his firing from Hockey Night in Canada,
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He wants to talk about the sport, what's going on.
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Again, you know, this stuff shouldn't be controversial.
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It's just a good old Canadian guy telling his perspective,
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and this is great that he can reach his own audience with his own message.
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He's no longer under the shackles of the mainstream media.
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Again, we had over 70,000 people sign our petition in support of Don Cherry.
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There was another petition done by the Rebel Media.
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I think they're approaching 100,000 signatures.
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Then there was a third petition by the guys over at the Western Standard
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So lots of support around the country, around the world, really.
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Now, completely opposite from Don Cherry, who's doing it independently,
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doing it on his own, and really doing a great job,
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you have the mainstream media in Canada, which just continues to fail,
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despite all of the advantages, despite all of the help,
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all of the taxpayer subsidies that the mainstream media gets.
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So we learned this week that the CBC was laying off staff,
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despite, of course, getting a billion dollars in taxpayer money.
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So the CBC laid off 35 people, 35 positions were dropped.
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People are not tuning in the same way they used to.
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The evening news, the daily programming, it's all just failing.
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especially in the new landscape of people being able to get their media
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They no longer have to have the CBC stuffed down their throes.
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But regardless, our taxpayers are shelling over more money than ever to the CBC.
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And in a similar vein, Toronto Star has also just announced that it will be axing
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So this year is going to be the last year that paper is published.
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And just like the CBC, you know, the CBC gets a lot of money from taxpayers.
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According to internal documents that were uncovered by Black Locks,
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the Trudeau government bailout that they announced,
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$600 million bailout fund for the mainstream media and for failing newspapers,
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that will be good for about $115,000 per week for the Toronto Star.
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They get about a $13,000 subsidy per reporter that's doing full-time reporting.
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And despite that, they just can't make the numbers work.
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The mainstream media, they don't know what Canadians want.
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They don't know how to package the news in a way that's interesting to Canadians.
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And they're so stuck on ramming their sort of snarky, elitist, left-wing worldview down our throats,
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just by the fact that most Canadians don't share that worldview and don't want to see the news that way.
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So this should be a lesson for the mainstream media.
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You need to understand how to reach Canadians in a better way.
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Instead, they're probably not going to learn these lessons.
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And they're going to continue not only to waste their own money, but to waste our money
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and to really, really take the country down dark, dark roads.
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So the Trudeau government has broke a 14-year tradition at the United Nations.
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They have signed on to a really, really awful resolution over at the United Nations this week.
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So there was a resolution that was presented by, of all countries, North Korea.
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It calls the Israelis occupiers of a Palestinian state.
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And it calls on the self-determination of Palestinians.
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Now, there's some pretty loaded language in here.
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First of all, you really don't want to be on the same side as North Korea on any issue.
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This is a part of the problem in the United Nations is you have democracies and dictators
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That's famously how Stephen Harper once described it.
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So you somehow have these countries that have horrible human rights records, horrible governance
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records, treat their citizens without any regard for their basic dignity.
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And somehow they have the same clout at the United Nations.
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And so North Korea introduces this really awful resolution.
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Canada never sides with it because Canada, by and large, is a country that respects human
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And, you know, it typically sides with other countries that try to do the same thing, other
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But it's the only country in the entire Middle Eastern region that does strive to preserve
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liberty, free markets, the rule of law, and democracy.
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Again, not perfect, but singling Israel out in a region that is just so widespread with not
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only corruption, but pure evil, human rights abuses, the absolute mistreatment of individuals.
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People are dying on the streets every day in a revolution that's standing up against the
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But instead of condemning North Korea, instead of condemning Iran or Syria or Iraq or any one
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of these horrible countries, Saudi Arabia, we single out Israel.
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We pretend that they're somehow doing something worse and different than others in the region.
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And again, this is a stark departure that Trudeau is signaling.
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You know, Canada has always been a proud friend of Israel.
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Israel is a country that is at war with terrorists.
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Canada used to be an ally in that war, in the war against terrorism, in the war against
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This resolution is sort of signaling a dangerous, concerning reversal.
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So shame on the Canadian diplomats over there.
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Our friends and allies in Israel deserve much, much better.
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And in other news this week, Justin Trudeau announced his new cabinet.
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And what the cabinet really shows us, well, two things.
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So one, Trudeau is expanding the size of government.
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And this is all in the ruse of sort of nation building and unity and keeping the country together.
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If there's ever a problem, if there's ever an issue that's happening in the country,
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it can always be solved with bigger government, more government.
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That's always the solution to the liberals who are just in search of the problem.
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And so lo and behold, instead of actually trying to make inroads in Alberta and Saskatchewan,
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where the liberals had no representation, they're just creating a couple of new cabinet portfolios
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I'm very skeptical about this being successful.
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And the other thing we see from this new cabinet announcement is basically just a doubling down
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on the same team that gave us four years of failed policies and failed governance.
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Expect more big deficits, lots and lots of spending, reckless piling of debt for future
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Chrystia Freeland used to be Foreign Affairs.
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She's now in a position that Trudeau, again, created out of nowhere, the deputy prime minister
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That has not been a role in Canada for over a decade.
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You know, the core team of people who really did fail us, who, you know, were Justin Trudeau's
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sort of rock stars in the media, people who are great at getting attention, great at creating
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stories out of nothing or great at being media stars.
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But really, the substance behind what they have to say and do is failed.
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And I think that there should be a lot more scrutiny paid on Trudeau and on what Trudeau is
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But instead, conservatives keep walking into this trap.
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And the conservatives right now are doing exactly what the liberals would have wanted
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Instead of focusing on Trudeau, the conservatives are focusing on themselves and the knives are
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out and there is a lot of backstabbing going on.
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And this is just a bit of a warning that the following story is really irrelevant to most
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This is really the sort of downtown Toronto things that people talk about in the media.
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But there was a guest op-ed in the Globe and Mail where they basically just say that Andrew
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Scheer is stuck in the past when it comes to LGBT issues.
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First of all, the article is co-written by a guy named Jamie Ellerton.
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You might remember that name because he was one of Andrew Scheer's spokespeople on the
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He was a communications advisor to Andrew Scheer.
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And here we are, you know, a month after the election and he's calling out Andrew Scheer.
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The piece doesn't really have any specific criticisms.
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The piece doesn't really have any specific problems with Andrew Scheer, with the way that
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It doesn't have any policy suggestions or basically any ideas to put forward.
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It just kind of repeats the talking points and the criticisms that the liberals have put
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forth over the last few months, that is to scare Canadians and paint conservatives and
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specifically Andrew Scheer as being homophobic.
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So it's kind of upsetting and troubling that someone who was part of Andrew Scheer's inner
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circle like two weeks ago is now kind of repeating all of these stories.
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You know, not too long ago, Jamie Ellerton was defending Andrew Scheer, was saying that
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it's actually Trudeau who is setting back LGBT people in Canada because he keeps reopening
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these issues so that we have to relitigate them.
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He said that the conservatives don't get enough credit for how far they've moved forward on
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And then this was his quote, just because you're gay doesn't mean you're a tax-and-spend
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He's sort of implying that conservatives haven't had to cater to special interests.
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Instead, they appeal to Canadians on broad universal values and universal concepts like,
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you know, fiscal responsibility and limited government.
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So back then, Ellerton didn't think that you had to come up with a specific policy to cater
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But now, in 2019, because Justin Trudeau made all these unfair accusations against conservatives,
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Ellerton's suggesting that, yeah, OK, it's time for conservatives to start catering to
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And let's just say something bluntly about the authors of this op-ed.
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They do this kind of stuff in order to get attention, to get press, in order to build
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And it's unfortunate because the media loves to jump onto these conservatives against conservative
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Conservative bashing is good for ratings for the mainstream media.
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So again, instead of talking about the real issues like the prime minister and all the terrible
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things that he's doing to Canada, here we are stuck talking about conservatives bashing
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conservatives and, you know, musing about whether or not conservatives are actually homophobic.
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Well, to Jamie Ellerton, who worked on Andrew Scheer's campaign, if you really had a problem
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with Scheer, you shouldn't have worked for him.
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And if you had some suggestions for things that he should have been doing differently on
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the campaign, it was literally your job to advise him and to coach him and to help him
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So I think that this whole thing is just sort of showing the failings on that front.
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