Canadian media in the pocket of the Trudeau government literally
If anyone in the conservative media environment should know about the Canadian media works, it’s Ezra Levant. He was one of the key personalities on the short-lived conservative Sun News Network, and before that, he wrote columns for years.
When Sun News Network folded in 2015, Levant co-founded Rebel News, a digital news outlet dedicated to presenting Canadian news from a right-of-center perspective. Rebel News has since expanded to cover news in the UK and Australia as well.
Levant’s team embedded reporters with the Freedom Convoy as they traveled across Canada, and their reports tell a much different story than what we’ve heard from Canada’s mainstream media, as well as from the government.
On Tuesday, Levant posted an epic Twitter thread that helps explain why the Canadian media parrot’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s mischaracterizations of the Freedom Convoy. What he had to say is eye-opening.
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“The first thing to know about the media is that they’re lazy,” Levant’s thread began. “They’d rather re-write a government press release than get up from their desk and report from the field — especially when it’s -20° out.”
“So they repeat Trudeau’s lie that the truckers are racist and sexist,” he continued. “The second thing to know is that in Canada, more than 99% of journalists receive a payment from Justin Trudeau.” This tweet links to a Rebel News article explaining a 29-page list of roughly 1,500 news organizations that received taxpayer money from Trudeau’s government just before the 2021 federal elections.
Levant went on to explain that even private media companies in Canada are under the thumb of the Trudeau administration because of his largesse. Many privately-owned media outlets are smaller subsidiaries of cable and utility conglomerates, which means that their leadership doesn’t care when woke publishers and editors squeeze out conservative points of view.
He concluded this section of the thread by saying, “These are all structural issues. But an obvious point is the lack of diversity in the news media. I don’t mean race or sex — I mean intellectual and class diversity. The Media Party (as I call it) is politically and culturally homogenous. Urban, woke think-alikes.”
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Canada if infested with the evils of liberalism and much of its media is a coconspirator in spreading that evil. The truckers are seen as dangerous because the government has lost control of them.
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