Juno News - The Candice Malcolm Show： The mainstream media keeps failing

00:00:00.000 Don Cherry is back, and this time he is uncensored.

00:00:03.900 The mainstream media in Canada keep failing despite receiving billions in tax dollars.

00:00:09.180 Canada turns its back on Israel at the UN,

00:00:11.520 and Justin Trudeau finds another excuse to massively increase the size of government.

00:00:16.340 I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.

00:00:23.540 Hi everyone, welcome to the podcast.

00:00:26.160 We have a lot to get to today, so let's get right to it.

00:00:28.860 Don Cherry has launched his own podcast on Spotify.

00:00:32.360 You can find it there. It's called Grapevine, and I love this product.

00:00:35.800 This is so great.

00:00:36.740 You know, Don Cherry unfairly got removed from his position at Sportsnet.

00:00:40.280 He didn't even have the opportunity to address his fans,

00:00:43.140 to talk about what happened, to say it from his own perspective.

00:00:46.760 Sportsnet just gave him the axe, kicked him off Hockey Night in Canada

00:00:49.580 after he'd been hosting that show for three decades, almost four decades.

00:00:53.460 Completely unjustified and unfair, but guess what?

00:00:56.060 Don Cherry landed on his feet,

00:00:57.980 and this is, again, this is the great thing about today's media landscape,

00:01:02.160 is that you no longer have to go work for a big network.

00:01:04.940 You no longer have to sit at a desk with tons of producers, tons of editors,

00:01:10.600 tons of overpaid bosses sitting over you, telling you what you can and cannot say.

00:01:15.360 No more political correctness.

00:01:16.700 No more Ron McClain sitting next to him,

00:01:18.580 nagging him, saying what he can and can't say.

00:01:20.800 Don Cherry is liberated.

00:01:21.940 He's free, and he can say exactly what he wanted.

00:01:24.680 So he launched his own podcast.

00:01:26.540 I listened to it, and the funny thing is, it's not controversial.

00:01:29.900 There's nothing really controversial that happens.

00:01:32.120 They have an interesting discussion.

00:01:33.740 Cherry very quickly, very briefly discusses the brouhaha over his firing from Hockey Night in Canada,

00:01:39.280 but really his focus is just on hockey.

00:01:41.300 He wants to talk about the sport, what's going on.

00:01:43.700 Again, you know, this stuff shouldn't be controversial.

00:01:46.500 It's just a good old Canadian guy telling his perspective,

00:01:48.860 and this is great that he can reach his own audience with his own message.

00:01:52.960 He's no longer under the shackles of the mainstream media.

00:01:56.080 So good for you, Don Cherry.

00:01:57.780 Again, we had over 70,000 people sign our petition in support of Don Cherry.

00:02:03.020 There was another petition done by the Rebel Media.

00:02:05.500 I think they're approaching 100,000 signatures.

00:02:08.100 Then there was a third petition by the guys over at the Western Standard

00:02:11.340 that got a quarter of a million signatures.

00:02:13.780 So lots of support around the country, around the world, really.

00:02:17.080 So great to see him land on his feet.

00:02:20.540 Now, completely opposite from Don Cherry, who's doing it independently,

00:02:24.700 doing it on his own, and really doing a great job,

00:02:27.560 you have the mainstream media in Canada, which just continues to fail,

00:02:31.440 despite all of the advantages, despite all of the help,

00:02:34.220 all of the taxpayer subsidies that the mainstream media gets.

00:02:37.100 They just, so many of them can't get ahead.

00:02:39.160 So we learned this week that the CBC was laying off staff,

00:02:43.700 despite, of course, getting a billion dollars in taxpayer money.

00:02:47.620 So the CBC laid off 35 people, 35 positions were dropped.

00:02:52.040 You know, the CBC is failing.

00:02:53.840 People are not tuning in the same way they used to.

00:02:56.400 The evening news, the daily programming, it's all just failing.

00:02:59.840 It's going down.

00:03:00.880 People don't have an appetite for it anymore,

00:03:02.840 especially in the new landscape of people being able to get their media

00:03:05.960 from wherever they want.

00:03:07.380 They no longer have to have the CBC stuffed down their throes.

00:03:11.120 But regardless, our taxpayers are shelling over more money than ever to the CBC.

00:03:15.920 And in a similar vein, Toronto Star has also just announced that it will be axing

00:03:21.220 its free daily newspaper, the Star Metro.

00:03:24.140 So this year is going to be the last year that paper is published.

00:03:27.860 And just like the CBC, you know, the CBC gets a lot of money from taxpayers.

00:03:31.640 The Toronto Star is also subsidized.

00:03:33.360 According to internal documents that were uncovered by Black Locks,

00:03:37.840 the Trudeau government bailout that they announced,

00:03:39.840 $600 million bailout fund for the mainstream media and for failing newspapers,

00:03:44.520 that will be good for about $115,000 per week for the Toronto Star.

00:03:50.100 They get about a $13,000 subsidy per reporter that's doing full-time reporting.

00:03:55.580 And despite that, they just can't make the numbers work.

00:03:58.080 Again, this is the problem.

00:03:59.260 The mainstream media, they don't know what Canadians want.

00:04:02.200 They don't know how to package the news in a way that's interesting to Canadians.

00:04:05.520 And they're so stuck on ramming their sort of snarky, elitist, left-wing worldview down our throats,

00:04:12.600 just by the fact that most Canadians don't share that worldview and don't want to see the news that way.

00:04:17.600 So this should be a lesson for the mainstream media.

00:04:20.060 You're failing.

00:04:21.140 You need to adapt.

00:04:22.160 You need to understand how to reach Canadians in a better way.

00:04:25.620 Instead, they're probably not going to learn these lessons.

00:04:27.540 And they're going to continue not only to waste their own money, but to waste our money

00:04:31.040 and to really, really take the country down dark, dark roads.

00:04:35.360 So let's move on.

00:04:36.600 So the Trudeau government has broke a 14-year tradition at the United Nations.

00:04:40.780 They have signed on to a really, really awful resolution over at the United Nations this week.

00:04:47.320 I hate to see this news.

00:04:48.860 So there was a resolution that was presented by, of all countries, North Korea.

00:04:54.560 And the resolution condemns Israel.

00:04:57.980 It calls the Israelis occupiers of a Palestinian state.

00:05:02.880 And it calls on the self-determination of Palestinians.

00:05:07.200 Now, there's some pretty loaded language in here.

00:05:09.760 First of all, you really don't want to be on the same side as North Korea on any issue. 0.86

00:05:14.140 This is a part of the problem in the United Nations is you have democracies and dictators

00:05:18.480 and despots sitting side by side.

00:05:20.360 That's famously how Stephen Harper once described it.

00:05:23.920 So you somehow have these countries that have horrible human rights records, horrible governance

00:05:28.700 records, treat their citizens without any regard for their basic dignity.

00:05:33.320 And somehow they have the same clout at the United Nations.

00:05:36.700 And so North Korea introduces this really awful resolution.

00:05:39.940 They do it every year.

00:05:40.640 Canada never sides with it because Canada, by and large, is a country that respects human

00:05:45.660 rights and promotes freedom and democracy.

00:05:48.240 And, you know, it typically sides with other countries that try to do the same thing, other

00:05:51.600 Western liberal democracies.

00:05:53.400 Israel has its flaws. 0.98

00:05:55.020 Obviously, it has its faults.

00:05:56.580 But it's the only country in the entire Middle Eastern region that does strive to preserve

00:06:01.760 liberty, free markets, the rule of law, and democracy.

00:06:05.580 Again, not perfect, but singling Israel out in a region that is just so widespread with not

00:06:13.140 only corruption, but pure evil, human rights abuses, the absolute mistreatment of individuals.

00:06:19.500 For instance, look at Iran right now. 0.55

00:06:21.460 People are dying on the streets every day in a revolution that's standing up against the

00:06:26.160 corrupt, tyrannical government.

00:06:27.680 But instead of condemning North Korea, instead of condemning Iran or Syria or Iraq or any one 0.79

00:06:33.660 of these horrible countries, Saudi Arabia, we single out Israel. 0.99

00:06:37.900 We pretend that they're somehow doing something worse and different than others in the region.

00:06:42.520 It's untrue.

00:06:43.520 It's unfair towards Israel. 0.91

00:06:45.420 And again, this is a stark departure that Trudeau is signaling.

00:06:49.320 You know, Canada has always been a proud friend of Israel.

00:06:52.120 Israel is a country that is at war with terrorists.

00:06:55.420 Canada used to be an ally in that war, in the war against terrorism, in the war against

00:06:59.880 jihadi violence.

00:07:01.240 This resolution is sort of signaling a dangerous, concerning reversal.

00:07:06.320 So shame on the Canadian diplomats over there. 0.99

00:07:08.900 Shame on Justin Trudeau for doing this.

00:07:11.300 Our friends and allies in Israel deserve much, much better.

00:07:15.060 And in other news this week, Justin Trudeau announced his new cabinet.

00:07:19.040 He announced it on Wednesday.

00:07:20.700 And what the cabinet really shows us, well, two things.

00:07:23.480 So one, Trudeau is expanding the size of government.

00:07:26.640 And this is all in the ruse of sort of nation building and unity and keeping the country together.

00:07:31.220 This is such a typical liberal reaction.

00:07:34.380 If there's ever a problem, if there's ever an issue that's happening in the country,

00:07:38.480 it can always be solved with bigger government, more government.

00:07:41.460 That's always the solution to the liberals who are just in search of the problem.

00:07:44.820 Right now it's national unity.

00:07:46.040 And so lo and behold, instead of actually trying to make inroads in Alberta and Saskatchewan,

00:07:51.380 where the liberals had no representation, they're just creating a couple of new cabinet portfolios

00:07:55.900 to try to ease the fears of people out west.

00:07:59.540 I'm very skeptical about this being successful.

00:08:02.660 And the other thing we see from this new cabinet announcement is basically just a doubling down

00:08:07.400 on the same team that gave us four years of failed policies and failed governance.

00:08:12.520 So the core team's the same.

00:08:14.420 Bill Morneau is still at finance.

00:08:16.220 Expect more big deficits, lots and lots of spending, reckless piling of debt for future

00:08:21.700 generations of Canadians to pay off.

00:08:23.920 Chrystia Freeland used to be Foreign Affairs. 1.00

00:08:26.020 She's now in a position that Trudeau, again, created out of nowhere, the deputy prime minister

00:08:30.640 role.

00:08:31.020 That has not been a role in Canada for over a decade.

00:08:33.920 Well, it's back now.

00:08:35.280 We don't really know what they do.

00:08:36.440 But Chrystia Freeland has this role. 1.00

00:08:38.040 You know, the core team of people who really did fail us, who, you know, were Justin Trudeau's

00:08:43.340 sort of rock stars in the media, people who are great at getting attention, great at creating

00:08:48.260 stories out of nothing or great at being media stars.

00:08:51.380 But really, the substance behind what they have to say and do is failed.

00:08:56.580 That is unfortunate.

00:08:57.980 But that is the government now.

00:08:59.600 And I think that there should be a lot more scrutiny paid on Trudeau and on what Trudeau is

00:09:05.560 doing.

00:09:05.880 But instead, conservatives keep walking into this trap.

00:09:09.820 And the conservatives right now are doing exactly what the liberals would have wanted

00:09:13.740 and would have hoped.

00:09:14.780 Instead of focusing on Trudeau, the conservatives are focusing on themselves and the knives are

00:09:20.800 out and there is a lot of backstabbing going on.

00:09:23.560 I hate kind of insider baseball-y stories.

00:09:26.600 And this is just a bit of a warning that the following story is really irrelevant to most

00:09:31.640 of the country.

00:09:32.140 This is really the sort of downtown Toronto things that people talk about in the media.

00:09:36.240 But there was a guest op-ed in the Globe and Mail where they basically just say that Andrew

00:09:41.760 Scheer is stuck in the past when it comes to LGBT issues.

00:09:45.560 Just a couple of quick points here.

00:09:47.120 First of all, the article is co-written by a guy named Jamie Ellerton.

00:09:51.580 You might remember that name because he was one of Andrew Scheer's spokespeople on the

00:09:56.100 recent campaign.

00:09:56.960 He was part of Andrew Scheer's inner circle.

00:09:58.640 He was a communications advisor to Andrew Scheer.

00:10:02.260 And here we are, you know, a month after the election and he's calling out Andrew Scheer.

00:10:07.580 The piece doesn't really have any specific criticisms.

00:10:10.280 The piece doesn't really have any specific problems with Andrew Scheer, with the way that

00:10:14.560 he's handled this issue.

00:10:15.680 It doesn't have any policy suggestions or basically any ideas to put forward.

00:10:21.380 It just kind of repeats the talking points and the criticisms that the liberals have put

00:10:25.380 forth over the last few months, that is to scare Canadians and paint conservatives and

00:10:30.500 specifically Andrew Scheer as being homophobic.

00:10:33.100 So it's kind of upsetting and troubling that someone who was part of Andrew Scheer's inner

00:10:36.960 circle like two weeks ago is now kind of repeating all of these stories.

00:10:41.560 You know, not too long ago, Jamie Ellerton was defending Andrew Scheer, was saying that

00:10:46.640 it's actually Trudeau who is setting back LGBT people in Canada because he keeps reopening

00:10:51.380 these issues so that we have to relitigate them.

00:10:53.840 Two years ago, he was quoted in a CBC story.

00:10:57.060 And I actually really liked this.

00:10:58.640 He said that the conservatives don't get enough credit for how far they've moved forward on

00:11:02.260 this issue.

00:11:02.800 He had a couple of examples. 0.92

00:11:04.460 And then this was his quote, just because you're gay doesn't mean you're a tax-and-spend 0.84

00:11:07.920 socialist.

00:11:08.800 He's sort of implying that conservatives haven't had to cater to special interests.

00:11:13.200 Instead, they appeal to Canadians on broad universal values and universal concepts like,

00:11:20.560 you know, fiscal responsibility and limited government.

00:11:23.920 So back then, Ellerton didn't think that you had to come up with a specific policy to cater

00:11:28.180 to every single identity group.

00:11:30.200 But now, in 2019, because Justin Trudeau made all these unfair accusations against conservatives,

00:11:35.700 Ellerton's suggesting that, yeah, OK, it's time for conservatives to start catering to

00:11:39.960 every little identity group.

00:11:41.300 This isn't good for the conservative movement.

00:11:43.820 It isn't good for the country.

00:11:44.920 And let's just say something bluntly about the authors of this op-ed.

00:11:49.920 They're consultants.

00:11:51.140 They do this kind of stuff in order to get attention, to get press, in order to build

00:11:54.920 new clientele lists.

00:11:56.300 And it's unfortunate because the media loves to jump onto these conservatives against conservative

00:12:01.320 stories.

00:12:02.440 Conservative bashing is good for ratings for the mainstream media.

00:12:05.380 And so they jump on this stuff.

00:12:06.680 So again, instead of talking about the real issues like the prime minister and all the terrible

00:12:10.380 things that he's doing to Canada, here we are stuck talking about conservatives bashing

00:12:15.260 conservatives and, you know, musing about whether or not conservatives are actually homophobic.

00:12:20.940 Well, to Jamie Ellerton, who worked on Andrew Scheer's campaign, if you really had a problem

00:12:24.940 with Scheer, you shouldn't have worked for him.

00:12:26.480 And if you had some suggestions for things that he should have been doing differently on

00:12:30.580 the campaign, it was literally your job to advise him and to coach him and to help him

00:12:35.620 on that front.

00:12:36.100 So I think that this whole thing is just sort of showing the failings on that front.

00:12:41.020 So I'm going to leave it there.

00:12:42.600 Thanks so much, everyone, for tuning in.

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Juno News - November 22, 2019

The Candice Malcolm Show： The mainstream media keeps failing

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