In this episode of Who Killed the Media, we discuss the recent clip of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau slamming the media, and who is actually responsible for it? We also discuss the implications of government subsidies to media companies, and the implications for the future of the media.
00:00:00.000So when I told Wyatt I wanted to break down the clip of Polyev going at it with the media member, he suggested a title of Polyev Slams the, quote, Trudeau Mouthpiece, end quote, media.
00:00:10.000I thought it was good because it's both technically true and figuratively true.
00:00:13.760Yes, it is YouTube click-bitty, but I will make this SEO compliant on my honor.
00:01:04.820The reason why many people were so excited is, if you don't know by now, most people, the vast majority, over 95% of, you know, people to the right of center in Canada,
00:01:17.360believe that the mainstream media en masse is not only ignoring them, but actively hostile in the sense that it's bias against them.
00:01:26.340And I think there's enough evidence of this, of media attacking conservatives and, you know, whatever thing, you know, you've seen coverage.
00:01:34.420I mean, like, for us, like, the Freedom Convoy, like, just outright lying about what was going on there.
00:01:39.180So you have a crowd that is sort of hostile towards, you know, let's say, lefty press.
00:01:48.140And in this country, it's so much worse because the Trudeau government promised to give $600 million in, you know, bailouts or subsidies or whatever it was to the media to, in his words, preserve the independence of the media.
00:02:02.160Yes, this is, so, for non-Canadians and for most Canadians too, guys, this is where society divides on these, like, straight gaslighting issues.
00:02:12.580And yes, they happen on all sides, but come on, let's be honest.
00:02:16.260Are we really going to let the leader of the country and the political establishment get away with an excuse that by the government giving large amounts of subsidies to these companies, it will not,
00:02:27.680listen, media companies, their job is to be neutral arbiters of the truth in the face of the government and our institutions, right?
00:02:37.440Their jobs are to monitor the institutions.
00:02:39.500Do you not think that them getting large sums of money from one of the institutions could compromise the coverage of said institution?
00:02:49.820So this is the context of what a lot of people believe.
00:02:54.240And you'll see the reporter in the clip start with attacking the Polyev government for wanting to subsidize the media when he's openly on policy, not wanting to subsidize the media.
00:03:07.660Again, this is the murder mystery question.
00:03:10.780So, yes, most establishment media have been historically politically left-leaning across, you know, most Western nations, like India too, right?
00:03:21.600It's a thing the media tends to get quite lefty.
00:03:27.020When governments get involved, especially left-wing governments funding this media, it actually signed their death warrant.
00:03:34.840Because when they took the money, not only were they, like, you know, did it not help them in the long run, let's say, you know, save these jobs, that will come up as an issue.
00:03:56.420So, what you get is a company, an entire system that is now dependent on those subsidies to survive.
00:04:07.100So, with the removal of all that government money from your income and balance sheet in a corporate world and the thought of growth and this and that, your model won't be sustainable.
00:04:21.300So, the murder mystery here is who kills the media?
00:04:24.220Is it Polyev who's going to pull the plug?
00:04:27.460Is that the, that's what's going to kill them?
00:04:31.100Well, this, this, this then comes to the question.
00:04:33.420It's like, okay, maybe it's the person who put them in the bed.
00:04:35.440Is this the liberal government who made them reliant on their dollars and then, you know, destroyed their trust with the multiple scandals and you had, you know, SNC-Lavalin and, again, like, you know, forcing them to outright lie about the freedom convoy and, you know, it was a Russian.
00:04:50.500Maybe it was well-funded by Vladimir Putin, right?
00:04:59.140Because not only did they take the money, but they've let into, into their own institutions, into their own structures, whatever you want to call them of the year.
00:05:08.120Is the social justice warriors or were they woke?
00:05:10.720Any version of, you know, neo-Marxist thought you want to throw in there, critical race theory, DEI, whatever the new term is.
00:05:19.980These people have been running around your institutions causing problems and in itself, like, you're not able to produce content.
00:05:51.340But they're, the people in the news companies are owned by Bell and Rogers, I'm sure, which are in the government talks for much bigger money than, like, their, their corporate media outlets.
00:06:00.600Like, this is oil and gas and telecom stuff.
00:06:03.020Like, they, they, they think they can always get an advantage if they have enough of the system in institutional control and 10,000 lawyers and lobbyists to, to hack out whatever government money.
00:06:14.940And people don't like this, the sort of oligopoly government.
00:06:17.280So, here you have Pierre Polyev going on sort of a, going to defund the CBC, put it on his platform and now sort of expanding it out to, we'll remove the sort of boons the liberals have given to this media.
00:06:33.720And thus, if they are, you know, really critically wounded and so whatever, they're going to adapt, then kaboom.
00:06:40.860Like, oh, well, but if they're faking it and they have the ability to get rid of all their bad actors, well, then maybe they can, like, get up and salvage themselves and the good ones can, you know, get up and at them and do what we do.
00:06:56.720You know, like and subscribe, blah, blah, blah, click the thing.
00:07:14.420So, here you have Pierre Polyev, which I say again, he's not, like, crossing the Rubicon here, but if, with this context, it is clear that, again, the Rubicon has been crossed.
00:07:24.760Like, he's, he cannot renege on what he's doing.