The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - February 12, 2024


Poilievre SLAMS the ＂Trudeau mouthpiece＂ Media!

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tax dollars for media media subsidies
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Wyatt Claypool
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Pierre Poilievre Justin Trudeau Trudeau Mouthpiece Vladimir Putin Polyev Slams Andrew Coyne Pauly Ev Rogers Wyatt
The ticking time bomb in Justin Trudeau's government Nightmarish polling result for the Liberals (Trudeau losing the middle class)

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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.

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00:00:00.000 So 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.
00:00:10.000 I thought it was good because it's both technically true and figuratively true.
00:00:13.760 Yes, it is YouTube click-bitty, but I will make this SEO compliant on my honor.
00:00:17.480 We will break down this clip.
00:00:18.560 And this is a slamming of the media.
00:00:21.760 So for those of you who aren't political nerds and didn't know, like, oh, why is everyone so yay?
00:00:26.740 Let me put the context to you.
00:00:28.640 And for the political nerds, let's break down, like, why this actually means.
00:00:31.800 Because this is important here.
00:00:33.900 Like, it isn't just, you know, Polyev slamming the media.
00:00:36.580 Like, that did happen, again, on my YouTube honor.
00:00:39.640 But he promised to destroy the media, essentially.
00:00:46.160 That's a much more interesting topic.
00:00:48.460 And the actual video there is not even a, you know, Polyev will destroy media.
00:00:54.160 It's actually an interesting murder mystery of who did kill the media here, right?
00:01:00.980 So this will be half sports analogy, half murder mystery.
00:01:03.360 All right.
00:01:04.820 The 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,
00:01:17.360 believe that the mainstream media en masse is not only ignoring them, but actively hostile in the sense that it's bias against them.
00:01:26.340 And I think there's enough evidence of this, of media attacking conservatives and, you know, whatever thing, you know, you've seen coverage.
00:01:34.420 I mean, like, for us, like, the Freedom Convoy, like, just outright lying about what was going on there.
00:01:39.180 So you have a crowd that is sort of hostile towards, you know, let's say, lefty press.
00:01:48.140 And 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.
00:02:02.160 Yes, this is, so, for non-Canadians and for most Canadians too, guys, this is where society divides on these, like, straight gaslighting issues.
00:02:12.580 And yes, they happen on all sides, but come on, let's be honest.
00:02:16.260 Are 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,
00:02:27.680 listen, media companies, their job is to be neutral arbiters of the truth in the face of the government and our institutions, right?
00:02:37.440 Their jobs are to monitor the institutions.
00:02:39.500 Do you not think that them getting large sums of money from one of the institutions could compromise the coverage of said institution?
00:02:45.780 Like, come on, come on.
00:02:47.800 No one buys this.
00:02:48.780 Like, you're not being reasonable.
00:02:49.820 So this is the context of what a lot of people believe.
00:02:54.240 And 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.
00:03:07.660 Again, this is the murder mystery question.
00:03:09.440 And the big incident is here.
00:03:10.780 So, yes, most establishment media have been historically politically left-leaning across, you know, most Western nations, like India too, right?
00:03:21.600 It's a thing the media tends to get quite lefty.
00:03:25.760 Okay.
00:03:27.020 When governments get involved, especially left-wing governments funding this media, it actually signed their death warrant.
00:03:34.840 Because 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.
00:03:46.620 There's been mass layoffs.
00:03:48.060 And, like, they are struggling.
00:03:50.140 Like, no one watches this stuff anymore.
00:03:53.360 Yeah, there's better stuff on the internet and around the same context.
00:03:56.300 Hello.
00:03:56.420 So, what you get is a company, an entire system that is now dependent on those subsidies to survive.
00:04:07.100 So, 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.
00:04:17.280 And it will collapse, most likely.
00:04:21.300 So, the murder mystery here is who kills the media?
00:04:24.220 Is it Polyev who's going to pull the plug?
00:04:27.460 Is that the, that's what's going to kill them?
00:04:31.100 Well, this, this, this then comes to the question.
00:04:33.420 It's like, okay, maybe it's the person who put them in the bed.
00:04:35.440 Is 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.
00:04:50.500 Maybe it was well-funded by Vladimir Putin, right?
00:04:52.900 So, loss of trust there.
00:04:56.180 Many things.
00:04:57.620 Is the media itself at fault?
00:04:59.140 Because 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.
00:05:08.120 Is the social justice warriors or were they woke?
00:05:10.720 Any version of, you know, neo-Marxist thought you want to throw in there, critical race theory, DEI, whatever the new term is.
00:05:19.980 These people have been running around your institutions causing problems and in itself, like, you're not able to produce content. 0.99
00:05:25.720 Because all these people suck. 0.96
00:05:26.620 And how much institutional control do they have inside the media? 1.00
00:05:30.280 This is another interesting thing.
00:05:31.640 So, is, is Polyev going to potentially save the mainstream media in a way? 0.98
00:05:36.640 Like, is the argument there that they're, they're in the coma, they're on the bed and yeah, they're not moving or they suck. 0.99
00:05:41.900 Look at them. 1.00
00:05:42.320 They suck, right? 0.99
00:05:43.080 This is why they're cooperating with the government and they got, oh, they got news shut down on Facebook and Instagram and maybe Google. 0.99
00:05:48.760 Oh, that hurts all of us?
00:05:49.940 Yeah, ding-dongs. 0.82
00:05:51.340 But 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.
00:06:00.600 Like, this is oil and gas and telecom stuff.
00:06:03.020 Like, 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.
00:06:13.080 They can't.
00:06:14.940 And people don't like this, the sort of oligopoly government.
00:06:17.280 So, 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.
00:06:33.720 And thus, if they are, you know, really critically wounded and so whatever, they're going to adapt, then kaboom.
00:06:40.860 Like, 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.
00:06:56.720 You know, like and subscribe, blah, blah, blah, click the thing.
00:06:59.660 Here's an interesting whatever.
00:07:01.360 Figure it out.
00:07:01.980 Make a video.
00:07:02.660 Write an article.
00:07:03.180 Make videos people want to watch.
00:07:04.620 Write articles people want to read.
00:07:05.900 Be somewhat intellectually honest with what you're doing and people will gravitate towards it.
00:07:12.440 Figure that out or don't.
00:07:14.420 So, 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.
00:07:24.760 Like, he's, he cannot renege on what he's doing.
00:07:29.120 Here is the clip.
00:07:29.980 But I think Polyev does quite well and lands it quite appropriately.
00:07:34.680 Why did your party, why did your party want to grant over $100 million in regulatory relief to the mainstream media?
00:07:42.740 We don't want to give any tax dollars to the mainstream media.
00:07:46.140 We, our belief is that the mainstream media and all.
00:07:49.040 Can you regret your decision, then, your party's decision to grant regulatory relief?
00:07:52.460 So, I'll answer your question.
00:07:53.860 The media that is bought and fade poor, which, where are you from, by the way?
00:07:59.260 Which, which outlet are you in?
00:08:01.840 Which outlet?
00:08:03.300 Which outlet?
00:08:03.920 Canadian Press.
00:08:04.660 Ah, okay.
00:08:05.320 Canadian Press.
00:08:06.360 So, you're talking about tax dollars for media.
00:08:09.600 Isn't CBC your biggest, isn't, no, I can answer.
00:08:12.260 I asked, are you listening to me?
00:08:13.040 Yeah, you want an answer?
00:08:14.140 One of your party wants to grant $100 million in regulatory relief to the mainstream media.
00:08:19.700 When would you like me to respond?
00:08:22.320 Okay.
00:08:23.000 Good.
00:08:23.700 Okay, great.
00:08:24.760 So, of course, you are a tax-funded media outlet and spreading Justin Trudeau's message.
00:08:29.780 Why did you want to grant $100 million?
00:08:30.340 And, and, and, so you're, you're interrupting me again.
00:08:33.000 You're interrupting me again.
00:08:34.180 I am answering the question.
00:08:35.660 Why did you, do you regret granting $100 million in regulatory relief to the mainstream media?
00:08:42.360 Your question is false.
00:08:43.560 So, if you can allow me to correct your falsehoods, then we can, we can answer the question directly.
00:08:48.080 So, false.
00:08:49.900 Canadian, conservatives do not believe in giving tax dollars
00:08:52.380 to media outlets.
00:08:53.680 That's Justin Trudeau.
00:08:54.840 That's Justin Trudeau.
00:08:55.920 That's Justin Trudeau.
00:08:57.260 Okay.
00:08:57.540 If you, if you don't want me to answer the question, I'll move on to someone else.
00:09:00.940 You're, you're a tax, you're a tax-funded mouthpiece to the PMO.
00:09:03.960 That's the reality.
00:09:05.540 So.
00:09:05.800 I would love the question answered.
00:09:06.980 You committed to answering the question.
00:09:07.440 I'm trying to.
00:09:08.500 I'm trying to.
00:09:09.260 But you're heckling.
00:09:10.460 Are you going to, are you going to let me answer the question?
00:09:12.360 Or are you just going to heckle on behalf of Justin Trudeau?
00:09:16.120 Which is it?
00:09:16.740 I would love the answer.
00:09:17.640 Great.
00:09:17.880 So our, our party does not support tax dollars for media outlets because that's when we end
00:09:22.100 up with biased media like you who come here and articulate the PMO talking points rather
00:09:28.060 than delivering real news to the Canadian people.
00:09:32.100 Justin Trudeau gave Bell Media and other media tax dollars supposedly to protect media jobs.
00:09:39.200 And then what happened?
00:09:40.440 They all got laid off.
00:09:41.980 So that, so that the supposed justification for giving, giving Bell all this money was
00:09:48.680 that it was going to save media jobs.
00:09:50.240 Well, they all got fired.
00:09:51.700 So I guess that wasn't the real reason for giving tax dollars to the media.
00:09:56.260 The real reason was for him to buy support from the media, which is what it actually did.
00:10:00.720 So we believe that media should be driven by readership, viewership, and listenership.
00:10:08.180 And that's what allows it to, to represent the Canadian people rather than taking marching
00:10:13.760 orders from the PMO.
00:10:16.760 See, that was pretty good.
00:10:18.800 And if you notice at the end, he did have to push through and he went to, from defense
00:10:22.920 mode, which was good.
00:10:23.840 Like just being attacked seriously, defense, defense, defense.
00:10:26.580 And even near the end, he had to, he went on offense, like unprovoked.
00:10:29.460 And pushed through the heckling to actually make a point at the end, which is, hey, the
00:10:36.560 media shouldn't be subsidized.
00:10:38.180 We're going to remove the subsidies from it because it's clearly indicated, you know,
00:10:42.900 bias and it didn't work.
00:10:45.320 So we think media is going to be pushed by likes, viewership and whatever.
00:10:49.020 So we're not going to destroy you.
00:10:50.360 We're not going to let you die, but you're going to have to earn your own viewership,
00:10:54.260 which I think is the right messaging.
00:10:55.700 So good day for Pauly Ev.
00:10:57.900 And again, this is why he's going to win the election.
00:11:00.740 And I can't wait for the scoffing of Andrew Coyne and, and the rest of it, because it's
00:11:06.560 going to be great.
00:11:07.240 It's going to be great.
00:11:07.980 Thank you.