The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - August 15, 2023


The Legacy Media Is Colluding Against The Conservatives

Topics
legacy media collusion
Hosted by
Wyatt Claypool
Mentioned
Andrew Scheer Pierre Poilievre Justin Trudeau Bill C-63 Rachel Gilmore Danfoe Wards Andrew Leach Danielle Smith John Iverson
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Length

7 minutes

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1,472

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In this episode, I talk about a conspiracy theory that has been floating around the Conservative Party of Canada for a few days now, and why it's not really a conspiracy at all. I also discuss the counter-argument that legacy media outlets are colluding with the Liberal Party to smear the conservative party.

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00:00:00.000 Just a couple of days ago, four different legacy media outlets all put out the exact same story, trying to accuse Pierre Polyev's Conservative Party of embracing the language of conspiracy theories.
00:00:11.460 This was rightly called out by a lot of members of the Conservative right in Canada as being obvious collusion between legacy media outlets in order to try and smear the Conservative Party under Pierre Polyev to help out Justin Trudeau.
00:00:23.440 And now I just want to kind of address a lot of counter arguments that people are making in order to try and what I think dishonestly pretend that this is not collusion or some sort of conspiring among the federally subsidized media companies.
00:00:38.720 Now, I just want to bring up first the headline that was used against Pierre Polyev by these four outlets just so we can kind of get a feel for what was being said.
00:00:47.140 So this is what the headline directly read from these four different legacy media outlets.
00:00:51.340 Now, this is obviously not real news.
00:01:03.640 It's effectively an opinion, you know, worked into a report.
00:01:07.300 It's the sort of thing that Rachel Gilmour used to do when she actually worked for Global News is just sort of like, you know, like the very like a left wing accusation against Pierre Polyev disguised as if it's a legitimate media story.
00:01:21.700 But what a lot of people are now trying to claim is that it's not it's not collusion that the same story was published at these four different outlets because it's a wire story from the Canadian press and media companies rely on the Canadian press to fill in the gaps in their news coverage all the time.
00:01:38.040 And this is absolutely correct that wire stories are a thing.
00:01:41.380 And oftentimes, like like four or five, six different outlets will put out the exact same story from the Canadian press.
00:01:48.440 But it's very, very different in this scenario than it is when you're just generically reporting on a press conference that one of the premiers or the prime minister held.
00:01:57.320 So I just want to go back to some of the examples that people are bringing up.
00:02:01.680 So Andrew Leach was bringing up that there was this this story that multiple different outlets put out that was titled Daniel Smith decries federal interference ahead of meeting or ahead of meetings with the prime minister, I think.
00:02:13.900 Sorry, a lot of the a lot of the text is being cut off here.
00:02:16.380 And he's using this to go after Andrew Scheer for calling out the collusion on the conspiracy theory story.
00:02:21.760 But the difference between this story and these other stories I'm about to bring up, which are about Andrew Scheer in the 2019 election and how he's, you know, balancing trying to have a wide appeal while being a social conservative or this other one where Andrew Scheer is is like how he balances his like socially conservative views while on the campaign trail and calling out Justin True and the liberals for, you know, trying to deflect to abortion and other sort of LGBT issues in order to not talk about their actual record.
00:02:50.300 All that stuff are legitimate wire stories, in my mind, because it's generic.
00:02:55.440 There's not really anything else you can say other than what the guy said verbatim at his press conference.
00:02:59.740 That is a legitimate wire story.
00:03:01.920 But when the wire story is just an opinion smear piece against the conservative party, all released pretty much at the exact same time in order to back up a narrative that the liberal party is trying to generate at that very moment.
00:03:14.540 That looks to me like even if all of the different sort of all the different legacy media company executives aren't getting on a phone together and saying we're going to release this story at 3 p.m.
00:03:25.360 Obviously, there is a there is a informal alliance with the legacy media that when they see this narrative come out and when one of them publishes it, they're all going to go in on it because it gives the liberal party or other media opinion writers an angle to go after pure poly of that's obviously what's going on.
00:03:43.180 And I think Andrew Scheer pointed out pretty well in response to this one journalist, John Iverson, who said, well, I've been working in the journalism industry for 30 years and I've never encountered any of this collusion.
00:03:53.460 And Andrew Scheer rightly points out, it's like, well, it's just spontaneous that they all happen to jump on the exact same anti poly of story at the same time.
00:04:01.780 And this is a deeply flawed story. It's basically saying that pure poly of and the conservatives are embracing conspiracy theories by calling out the WEF for the things that the WEF directly says on their website and at their conference and all the liberal politicians who embrace the agenda that the WEF pushes.
00:04:18.520 That's not a conspiracy theory. That's just pointing out political influencing that the WEF does and how the liberals go along with it. That's not a that's not even a conspiracy that they're calling out. They're just calling out the fact that they don't like the ideology of the WEF.
00:04:32.780 So anyways, the story is deeply flawed and they all happen to run at the same time.
00:04:38.720 And even let's just pretend there is zero, there is zero collusion. There is zero kind of looking over the fence to what the other legacy media outlets are doing and trying to align yourself with the narrative that's being pushed.
00:04:51.260 And like, especially because a lot of the pure poly of does threaten the media subsidies. A lot of these places get, I, I, I, I highly doubt that they're not all trying to sink poly of right now, but even if they're not
00:05:02.620 colluding, doesn't that just demonstrate the deep left-wing bias in the editorial rooms in the media, uh, companies that they all happen to go for the anti-poly of story, the deeply flawed anti-poly of story on the exact same day that demonstrates that the, the legacy media is not neutral and unbiased.
00:05:21.260 And that I, I frankly think with Bill C-18 and Bill C-11, uh, all Justin Trudeau is trying to do is be able to shut down, uh, discourse from independent media because that's the only, uh, counter narrative coming out right now.
00:05:34.280 Like, yeah, you get a little bit of it from the national post, but it's not consistent.
00:05:38.080 But, but I think that it's, I think it's been deeply dishonest to pretend that, uh, as if this story all coming out at the same time does not constitute some form of collusion,
00:05:46.940 especially when so many of the outlets are sharing the exact same wire service stories, uh, between them all in the sense that they all go to the Canadian press.
00:05:56.220 And isn't it a little bit hinky, I guess, that the Canadian press is, uh, is pumping out wire stories that are supposed to be neutral and unbiased that directly make an anti-conservative narrative.
00:06:08.000 Nothing based on what poly has done, but just based on the spin that the story generates.
00:06:12.260 Well, anyways, I just wanted to quickly address this because I thought a lot, a lot of what people are doing on Twitter or what's now called X today is effectively just trying to obfuscate the point by bringing up counter examples that don't actually get at the heart of the issue of the, of the story being like printed multiple times.
00:06:30.160 It doesn't matter if wire stories are used by multiple outlets.
00:06:33.300 It depends on the sort of wire story that's being used multiple times.
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