Juno News - The legacy media condemns mean tweets

00:00:00.000 The bailout group Think Media condemns mean tweets, Canadian media failed trends on Twitter

00:00:04.940 for the stupidest reasons, and the Laurentian elite punditry has turned on Prime Minister

00:00:09.960 Justin Trudeau. It's Fake News Friday. I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.

00:00:18.740 Everyone, thank you so much for tuning into the show. It's Fake News Friday. This is the

00:00:22.900 show where we break apart the media narrative, where we tell you how the mainstream media is

00:00:28.720 decepting you, how they are misleading you. We point out fake news reports out there, and we

00:00:33.500 really just deconstruct the Canadian media scene to talk about all the various problems. And look,

00:00:40.060 we have a media situation in Canada where the overwhelming majority of legacy media outlets

00:00:45.440 are paid for or subsidized by the federal government. This is such a conflict of interest

00:00:50.560 on the most basic level. It's surprising that anyone stands for it. Anyone, especially,

00:00:55.680 you have a legacy media that is full of people who went to journalism school, people who believe

00:01:00.660 in journalism ethics, people who stand and uphold the value of their profession and talk about how

00:01:06.520 necessary it is that we have independent journalists in the country, while also turning around hat in

00:01:12.120 hand and asking for a bailout from the government or lobbying the government for their own special

00:01:16.720 interests or really just pushing advocacy as opposed to journalism. The line between advocacy and

00:01:22.180 journalism has never been more blurred. And look, here at True North, you know that we take strong

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00:01:57.260 media outlets, you are getting left-wing spin. You are getting pro-liberal worldview. But you're not

00:02:02.300 being told that. You're being told that you're delivered the news in a completely neutral, unbiased

00:02:07.100 way, which is simply not true. I wish more journalists would just be honest about who they are, who they

00:02:11.560 vote for, what they believe, and then they can deliver the news. And at least we will be being honest

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00:02:52.760 you will never miss an episode. So first, I want to point your attention to this news release and

00:02:57.080 this tweet that was put out by CBC Radio Canada. So it says this, in the wake of the heinous and

00:03:03.320 threatening messages sent to journalists from different media companies, we are joining forces

00:03:08.140 with other Canadian press organizations to denounce hate threats and online harassments.

00:03:14.080 Hashtag not okay. Hashtag journalist safety. And then it goes to a news release. And we see this

00:03:19.720 little graphic here that shows us all of the various news agencies that are involved in this

00:03:25.120 statement. So let me just go through them all because it pretty much represents the entirety of

00:03:30.440 the legacy media in Canada. And then a handful of sort of fringe, independent, far left or leftist

00:03:37.260 news organizations. So here we have, it starts with APTN, which is the Aboriginal People's Television

00:03:42.240 Network. Next, we have Canada's National Observer, which is a fringe, far left, anti-Canadian energy

00:03:48.260 outlet, activism, journalism over there. Next, we have the Narwhal, which is something so small and 0.99

00:03:53.380 inconsequential. I imagine that no one watching the show has ever even seen this outlet, but

00:03:58.320 nevertheless, it's included here. Next, we have Bell Media, which owns CTV and a number of other radio

00:04:03.260 stations. Next, we have the Canadian Association of Black Journalists. Then we have Canada Land,

00:04:09.140 which is a leftist media outlet that sort of does media criticism. And sometimes they just sort of

00:04:15.720 for no reason go after people like me. Next, we have Chorus, who owns a bunch of radio stations,

00:04:20.820 CBC Radio Canada, the biggest media company in the country that gets $1.2 billion from the taxpayers,

00:04:26.760 La Presse, which is a large French news service, Canadian Press, which is a Canadian wire service.

00:04:31.300 So their stories appear in newspapers and websites across the country. We have La Presse Canadienne,

00:04:37.860 The Walrus, which is a left-wing magazine that has a very, very small circulation and gets almost

00:04:42.340 all of its money from the government. Quebec Corps, another French media station. Post Media,

00:04:47.240 which owns the National Post, a bunch of the regional Post Media papers, as well as Sun Media.

00:04:52.740 And we have the Globe and Mail. Next, we have Torstar, which owns the Toronto Star and all of its

00:04:56.460 regional affiliate papers. We have the Canadian Association of Journalists, the Canadian Journalism

00:05:01.420 Foundation, and the Federation of Quebec Journalists. So again, pretty much every member of the legacy

00:05:07.220 media here, as well as the fringe lefty ones I count, National Observer, Narwhal, Canada Land,

00:05:13.860 and Walrus, all included. So let's see what this is all about. You click on the news release here,

00:05:19.820 it says, a strong diverse media is vital for a well-informed democratic society. While criticism

00:05:24.980 is an integral part of journalism and democracy, there can be no tolerance for hate and harassment

00:05:30.680 of journalists or for incitement of attacks on journalists for doing their job, that these

00:05:35.040 attacks in orderly target women and racialized journalists. I don't know exactly what racialized 1.00

00:05:40.620 means, but that speaks to the motivation of the people engaging in this behavior. We are united in

00:05:47.340 supporting our journalists and newsrooms against those who seek to silence their stories and threaten

00:05:53.040 their safety. Together, we will continue to advocate for industry-wide response to end this

00:05:58.320 behavior, which I guess is probably alluding to the fact that all of these media outlets support the

00:06:03.980 proposed online harm legislation that is coming from the Trudeau Liberals. And Stéphane Guilbeault,

00:06:10.020 who was the Heritage Minister, I'm not sure if he'll be the Heritage Minister, again after this election,

00:06:14.660 but here we see again all the lists of all of the media outlets that condemn this hate. So they don't

00:06:20.640 exactly give us any examples. I know there have been some screenshots of emails that some journalists

00:06:26.160 have been getting circulating on social media, some pretty vicious stuff. But obviously, you know,

00:06:30.960 when we're talking about incitement of attacks or threats of violence, it's already illegal in this

00:06:36.340 country. And so the fact that they're trying to advocate for an industry-wide reaction to end this

00:06:42.480 behavior. Look, I get it. I'm a journalist. I'm a woman. I'm online. I'm pretty outspoken when it

00:06:46.700 comes to my opinions online. And I have been for many, many years. And I totally get it. I get some

00:06:52.140 pretty, pretty vicious attacks on social media. But guess what? I don't let it bother me. I don't

00:06:58.200 really read my hate mail. I don't read my mean tweets. I don't let them bother me. When I get a

00:07:02.780 nasty email in my inbox, I usually just delete it without fully reading it. And I don't let it bother me

00:07:08.060 because people just want to blow off steam. We live in a free society. Everyone is entitled to

00:07:12.780 their own opinions. I don't have to let it bother me. I don't have to get upset about it. Some women 1.00

00:07:16.880 receive a mean tweet or a mean email, and they want to share it to show the kind of abuse they get.

00:07:21.660 Maybe other people aren't aware of this. Look, I have done in the past where I've gotten something

00:07:25.740 nasty and I've decided to share it just to show people a little bit of what's going on. But the idea

00:07:30.980 that all of these journalists are kind of coming together to condemn this behavior, I don't know if

00:07:35.300 it's if it's specifically about those handful of mean emails that were circulating or whether this

00:07:40.100 is in relation to Maxine Bernier, who the media accused of doxing a couple of journalists. And

00:07:45.380 I went through this on Fake News Friday a couple of weeks ago. He didn't dox anybody. He shared their

00:07:49.860 publicly available emails. Twitter took that down. And this was all in response because a bunch of

00:07:54.500 journalists decided to smear Maxine Bernier and the People's Party of Canada, saying that they're Nazis,

00:07:59.300 saying that they're white nationalists. And Maxine Bernier just simply had enough of it,

00:08:02.980 called them out on their BS. And because of it, they sort of all sniveled and whined and pretended

00:08:07.700 that it was some kind of an attack on democracy. Here we even see that kind of language in this

00:08:13.060 tweet. It's sort of silly in the wake of heinous and threatening messages. I'm sorry, the definition

00:08:18.340 of heinous is something like beyond belief. You know, when you think of the heinous act, you usually

00:08:23.300 think something like a school shooting or someone murdering their family. You don't think of someone

00:08:28.100 writing a mean tweet, writing a nasty email. And look, I admit that this kind of stuff

00:08:32.580 does exist out there. I've seen it. I've been the victim of it. But I wouldn't describe it as heinous.

00:08:36.820 And I think that this reaction by all these journalists to put their names together, put

00:08:40.740 their logos together and sort of what create a united fight. First of all, how come they didn't

00:08:45.700 include anyone from the Independent Press Gallery of Canada? I see, like I said, all the legacy media who

00:08:50.100 all more or less all lean left or far left. And then they also had to go out and find four

00:08:55.380 independent left wing outlets on there. And I say independent very loosely because a lot of them do

00:08:59.860 receive money from the federal government. So they're not really independent. They're just not

00:09:03.940 the establishment legacy media. Why not reach out to True North and ask if we wanted to be a part of

00:09:09.220 this? Why not reach out to anyone in the Independent Press Gallery? There are a whole bunch of right of

00:09:13.620 center or conservative independent media outlets. None of us are included. They don't really consider us

00:09:17.780 journalists. That's the thing. That's the kicker. They don't really consider us journalists. They're

00:09:20.980 journalists. We're not. They're allowed to push advocacy. We're not. They're allowed to have an

00:09:25.300 ideological worldview and values that they present. They're allowed to be activists. We're not. Which

00:09:30.580 is why we see such a double standard. When anyone on the left, any journalist and legacy media gets

00:09:35.700 any kind of a threat, it's a huge big deal and everybody stops and comes together and rallies behind

00:09:40.740 them. When any of this kind of stuff happens, for instance, to Sheila Gunn-Reed over at The Rebel,

00:09:44.900 when she's denied entry into a press conference or when she gets punched in the face at a woman's 1.00

00:09:49.540 rally in Edmonton. None of these journalists say anything. They're nowhere to be found to defend

00:09:55.620 Sheila when that happened. In fact, a lot of them were accusing Sheila of being the one at fault.

00:10:00.660 Similarly, when my colleague Sue Ann Levy went to a rally and her photographer or cameraman was

00:10:08.180 assaulted. Nobody said anything. Nobody cared. And for myself, I was the victim of a series of death

00:10:14.420 threats. I had to get the police involved. This is when I was reporting on Khalistani extremists 1.00

00:10:18.500 operating in Vancouver, who some of them had connections to Jagmeet Singh, leader of the NDP.

00:10:23.060 I reported it as part of the investigative journalism that I was doing at the time.

00:10:27.540 And in response, I got a series of death threats. I got some very serious, specific, credible threats,

00:10:33.540 and they were also leaving things at my house where I live with my family. And so that's when I got the

00:10:38.580 police involved. I was pretty public about it happening. Interestingly, the media in India were telling me

00:10:44.180 that they supported me and reaching out to make sure that I was okay. And I didn't hear any kind

00:10:49.780 of support. I didn't see any of that from any of these organizations that are listed here today.

00:10:55.460 So let me just say that this is more about politics, more about lobbying for support of the Trudeau

00:11:01.220 government and pushing their what's to come. You know, the Trudeau government's attempts to censor the

00:11:07.140 internet. This is all just the media preposition and saying that they support this kind of measure. And

00:11:13.540 it's just whenever you see all the legacy media in lockstep agreeing on something, putting a

00:11:18.420 statement out like this, it's just there to be mocked. And again, you know, you're allowed to

00:11:23.540 criticize journalists. No, you're not allowed to threaten them. No, you're not allowed to incite

00:11:27.540 violence against them, but you're allowed to hate them. You're allowed to say mean and nasty things

00:11:32.740 to people in our society. It's rude. And it's not something that I personally advocate for,

00:11:37.540 but it is not illegal and we should not make it illegal. Moving on. I want to talk about this

00:11:43.140 story. I came online. I usually don't come online on the weekend. I'll just say my family, my husband

00:11:48.900 and I have started doing a digital detox on the weekends. So we try for most of the day to keep our

00:11:54.660 phones away, turned off, and just especially not go onto social media. We want to be able to enjoy

00:11:59.940 time with the kids. We want to be present. We want to enjoy our little kids at this stage.

00:12:06.020 And we don't want to be distracted by the phone. And again, going on social media for me is more like

00:12:10.820 work because of my job and I'm constantly scanning the media. So I usually don't go online. I can't

00:12:16.660 remember exactly why, but for some reason I went online last weekend and I saw the hashtag

00:12:20.820 Canadian media fail trending on Twitter. I was amused because, you know, this is the theme of my show.

00:12:26.580 This is, I devoted entire episode of Canada's Malcolm show every week on Canadian media fails. So

00:12:31.380 I just clicked on it to check out what was going on. And I was a little surprised because it wasn't

00:12:35.860 what I expected. I expected it to be sort of conservative Twitter, you know, complaining

00:12:40.500 about something that the legacy media was doing, complaining about the CBC, but actually it was the

00:12:44.500 exact opposite. It was liberal Twitter who was angry that the media was covering the Tofino beach

00:12:50.340 holiday story. They thought that it was a nothing burger, that it was sort of an attack on Justin

00:12:55.060 Trudeau's privacy and his family and their ability to have a nice quiet weekend. And I just thought

00:13:00.820 that was sort of amusing that there are people on Twitter who believe that the legacy media is what,

00:13:06.260 like a right wing news organization is trying to take out their guy, their Justin Trudeau, their hero.

00:13:12.900 And so it must be kind of embarrassing for all those people who are really pushing this idea that it

00:13:17.460 was this total fake story when the prime minister himself came out and apologized earlier this week and

00:13:22.100 said that he was wrong. And now we're hearing all kinds of new revelations about the sketchy business

00:13:27.780 dealings of the owner of the house and the fact that he once lobbied the prime minister's office,

00:13:32.180 lobbied Justin Trudeau to enact legislation that Justin Trudeau eventually did. It's really,

00:13:37.620 really bad. It's getting worse. I devoted my entire show yesterday on this topic. And if you haven't

00:13:42.340 watched it yet, I encourage you to go over and check it out. But it's true that the media are turning on

00:13:48.980 Justin Trudeau and we're seeing it. We're seeing the Laurentian elite, the people who usually have

00:13:53.700 Trudeau's back, really turning their back on them. So I'll give you a couple of examples of columnists.

00:13:58.820 This week we had Don Martin over at CTV, a very, very influential journalist in Ottawa,

00:14:03.620 long time journalist. Everybody knows him. He's got his finger on the pulse. And he writes this,

00:14:08.740 on a national day of indigenous reflection, the prime minister only sees his own. Tasha Carradine

00:14:14.340 over at the national post writes about, well, this, this, this article is both about, um, Trudeau

00:14:19.460 and O'Toole, but it really, really rails into Justin Trudeau. It says weak leadership leads Trudeau

00:14:23.860 to Tofino and O'Toole into trouble. The lessons in both cases is that leadership demands authenticity.

00:14:28.980 A real leader practices what he preaches. I know Tasha Carradine is a conservative, 0.51

00:14:34.020 but she is sort of the Laurentian elites, um, conservative. Another one from the national

00:14:39.300 post is John Ibbotson. This is a devastating piece. And it says there are a few signs the

00:14:44.500 prime minister learns from his mistakes. How many times has Justin Trudeau begged forgiveness for

00:14:48.900 transgressions that would probably have seen him fired in the private sector. John Ibbotson does a

00:14:53.620 pretty good job of recounting all of the various times that Justin Trudeau has been found himself

00:14:58.020 in similar kinds of situations where just total lapses of judgment, really, really bad from an optics

00:15:03.140 perspective, conflicts of interest and ethics violations. Finally, John Ibbotson in the Globe and

00:15:08.180 Mail, who is usually can be counted on to defend Justin Trudeau and attack conservatives. He writes

00:15:13.700 that Tofino trip may only hasten Justin Trudeau's departure. So when the Laurentian elites turn on you,

00:15:19.860 you know that you're in trouble. Um, there are two sort of themes that I want to pick up and

00:15:24.260 criticize though, when it comes to the Laurentian elites criticism of Justin Trudeau. By the way,

00:15:28.980 those are just four examples of many, many, many more. There were, there were probably hundreds of

00:15:32.900 columns, uh, written in the last week, uh, of Justin Trudeau and talking about just how terrible

00:15:37.940 his decision was. And I, and I happen to agree with that, but there were two elements of the story

00:15:42.260 that I disagree with. So I'll go through those right now. First of all, this is just a personal

00:15:46.180 pet peeve of mine, but as someone who grew up in British Columbia, someone who grew up in Vancouver

00:15:50.260 and sort of has come to get used to the way that the Laurentian elites, people from Toronto,

00:15:55.460 Iowa, and Montreal, the way that they talk about the rest of the country, especially the West and

00:15:59.540 somehow in particular British Columbia, it almost feels like British Columbia is not really a part of

00:16:04.740 Canada. Like it's a whole different place. It's a different country and going to the beach in

00:16:08.500 British Columbia is somehow illegitimate. So we see this a lot with Justin Trudeau. I'm not trying

00:16:14.020 to pick on Tasha Carradine because I have quite a bit of respect for her, but there was just one line

00:16:18.580 in her piece that really, really irked me. So here it is. Tasha writes this, she says,

00:16:23.700 Trudeau was caught on camera hitting the beach, but not just any beach, a beach in BC across the country

00:16:29.700 from Ottawa. So this is somehow saying that because the beach was across the country in British Columbia,

00:16:33.460 that what it makes it even worse. It's almost like they equate going to the beach in British

00:16:36.980 Columbia with again, going to a different country, like going to the Caribbean or going to Hawaii or

00:16:40.740 something like that. And they treat it like there's something scandalous in and of itself of going to

00:16:45.060 British Columbia. I've got news to journalists and I'll just make it clear for Tasha Carradine in

00:16:49.380 this specific line, she was talking about how it wasn't a spontaneous trip. It wasn't just like

00:16:54.820 deciding to pack the car on a spur of the moment trip, but it required planning. But I did see this line

00:17:00.260 in other pieces that there was something nefarious because he decided to go out to British Columbia.

00:17:04.900 Well, I've got news for journalists in this country. I've got news for people in Ontario who

00:17:09.060 have this very Toronto and Ontario centric view of the country. British Columbia is just as part

00:17:14.580 as much British Columbia is just as much a part of Canada as anywhere else is perfectly legitimate

00:17:18.900 for the prime minister of this country to go to British Columbia whenever he pleases. His family

00:17:23.140 is from there. His mother and his entire side of the family is from British Columbia spent a lot of time

00:17:27.140 growing up and in his twenties living in British Columbia. If he wants to go on a vacation to

00:17:31.540 British Columbia, that's entirely his prerogative, entirely within his rights. Of course, the problem

00:17:36.500 here is the whole idea that he went on Truth and Reconciliation Day and he lied about it. So I'm not

00:17:41.060 saying that this isn't scandalous. I devoted my entire show yesterday, like I said, to talking about

00:17:45.140 just how bad the story is. But just that concept, that line that's buried in, that going to British

00:17:51.860 Columbia was somehow wrong just because going to BC is wrong to me. It strikes me of the Laurentian

00:17:56.900 elite's vision of Canada that basically everyone outside of Ontario, especially everything to the

00:18:02.180 west of Ontario, is treated sort of like it's a colony of central Canada. The west, the prairies,

00:18:07.620 it's there for resource extraction. British Columbia is there for holidays and vacations

00:18:12.340 and nothing else. Well, you know what? People who live in that part of the country are just as much

00:18:16.180 Canadian as anyone else. And the second component of the media narrative that I find off-putting and

00:18:21.780 completely wrong is this idea that this might hasten Trudeau's departure, as John Ibbotson said,

00:18:26.500 that Trudeau is on his way out and that this is just a sign that Canadians are done with him.

00:18:31.380 And he's had enough sort of speculating that he's going to resign. And I'll tell you exactly why this

00:18:35.300 is untrue. There are only two ways that Justin Trudeau would be removed from being the prime

00:18:39.060 minister at this point. He's not going to lose an election. He's not going to trigger election.

00:18:42.260 My guess is that they won't have an election for another four years. But there's two ways where he

00:18:45.860 could stop being prime minister if the party somehow decided to oust him or if he himself decided to

00:18:50.820 resign. Neither of these two things are going to happen. So the first one, the Liberal Party is basically a cult.

00:18:56.340 It's a cult of personality around Justin Trudeau. They love him. He can do no wrong, even though

00:19:01.140 some people have sort of turned on him just in terms of how much of a fake feminist he is, 1.00

00:19:05.620 how he's fake woke, all these kinds of things. He still has the unveiling support of basically his

00:19:10.340 entire party. They love him. He can do no wrong. And so according to a poll that True North commissioned,

00:19:15.780 Trudeau has a support of 95% of Liberal voters. 95% of Liberal voters told us they have a positive

00:19:22.580 view of Justin Trudeau. In the eyes of Liberal voters and Liberal members, Justin Trudeau can do

00:19:27.380 no wrong. 95%. That is an incredible level of support for Justin Trudeau. Again, sort of like a cult.

00:19:32.820 They're not going to get rid of their cult leader over something like this, especially as I said,

00:19:37.060 you know, the whole fact that Canadian media fail was trending on Twitter. Liberals don't think that

00:19:40.820 Justin Trudeau did anything wrong. And so they're not going to get rid of him. As far as Justin Trudeau

00:19:45.940 himself, the idea that what he's checked out and that he's done, I don't think so. I think he's probably just

00:19:49.700 fatigued from the election and wanted to have some downtime with his family. And, you know,

00:19:54.260 it wasn't too long ago. A couple of weeks ago on the election campaign, media and reporters asked him

00:19:58.500 just that. They said, what are you going to do if you lose this election? What are you going to do

00:20:01.780 if you are leader of the opposition? Are you going to step down? This is what Justin Trudeau said.

00:20:07.060 I am not done fighting for Canadians. I am not done with the hard work Canadians expect

00:20:14.900 for a better future for everyone. So there you have it. He's not done. He's not done. And this

00:20:22.020 was reiterated by Gerald Butts. He told CBC that calls for Trudeau to resign are not going to go

00:20:28.340 anywhere. He said, I think retiring from politics would be the furthest thing from Justin Trudeau's

00:20:32.180 mind right now. It's a four year mandate unless the government is brought down. So again, the idea that

00:20:37.140 Justin Trudeau is going anywhere is nothing but wishful thinking. It is not reflected in any facts or any of

00:20:43.460 the information that we have out there. But again, what do you expect from the legacy media?

00:20:47.860 Thank you so much for tuning into Fake News Friday. I'm Katis Malcolm and this is The Katis Malcolm Show.

Juno News - October 08, 2021

The legacy media condemns mean tweets

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