The legacy media’s goal is stop Pierre Poilievre from winning
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Summary
In this episode of the Thick & Thin, I sit down with my good friend and colleague, Evan Lewis, to talk about the PM debate on gender and the media's role in it. We talk about how the media got it wrong, why it's not their job to ask tough questions, and whether or not the PM's answer on gender spoke for itself.
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i don't think any tough questions are going to be asked by the legacy media by the mainstream media
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i don't hold high hopes if they do it's just going to be finding you know pierre's worst moment in
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the debate and rehashing it that is all they will do uh you can bet money on that that's what they'll
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do uh because you know whatever the weakest point is they'll find it and they'll exploit it because
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their goal is to stop pierre paulia from winning and our goal is to get answers for canadians which
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is what journalists used to do you know this is this is sort of like old style journalism where
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the goal wasn't to persuade people one way or the other it was to get answers
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and the leaders will persuade people themselves they'll do their job Mark Carney's answer on
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gender spoke for itself maybe some far left extremists who you know were supporting his
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party because they wanted to stop the conservatives might realize them you know Stephen Harper chose
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mark carney for a reason because he wasn't some radical sjw and these people who naturally want
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to support the ndp and these left-wing extremist causes uh maybe they're going to be dissuaded from
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it it's not our job you know frankly some people saying that we didn't move the needle at all it's
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it's they're they're kind of telling on themselves a little bit in the mainstream media that they
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think that the media's job is to move the dial uh and is to convince people that you know orange
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man bad blue man good or red man good it's that's not the case our goal is to get answers that's it
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that's it exactly yeah like the people that said that we were asking bad faith questions i generally
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don't understand like i think that the questions were just motivated by an interest in what the
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the prime minister will say. And that should be what's motivated all journalists.