An observation: there was tons of interest in this story from French-language media and independent media (even a lil from international) but none from Canadian, English-language MSM. I wonder why. To be clear: this isn't about me -- it's about a playbook that impacts press freedom and democracy. - ThreadSky

rachelgilmore.bsky.social • 16 days ago

An observation: there was tons of interest in this story from French-language media and independent media (even a lil from international) but none from Canadian, English-language MSM.

I wonder why.

To be clear: this isn't about me -- it's about a playbook that impacts press freedom and democracy.

Reposted from Taylor Noakes

"One tweet from a Poilievre spokesperson created a far-right social media shit-fit that led CTV to kibosh Rachel Gilmore’s fact-checking segment

Doing your job well is all it takes for a woman journalist to get cancelled in #Canada"

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gerilogiacco.bsky.social•15 days ago

Cowards.

canadianheart.bsky.social•15 days ago

Please let there be enough Canadians that see PP’s bullshit for what it is. Too many sleepwalked their way through the American election we cannot have this in our country! Someone is paying his way and the media is part of it. VOTE our way of life depends on it!

dman905.bsky.social•16 days ago

dman905.bsky.social•16 days ago

We going to talk about racist white supremacist Nazi police politicians and media putting a target 🎯 on the back of minorities

#TeamKKKanada rich racist white supremacist lying Israeli apartheid genocidal baby killer cowards two tier preferential treatment

Sponsored by CP24 CFRB TPS TPA KKK IDF

dman905.bsky.social•16 days ago

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alltheweird.bsky.social•14 days ago

Canadians, this is fascism. Controlling the media is not okay. We want to have a choice in the future. We want a future. Choose with love and empathy, the world WILL be a better place.

joanmacrae.bsky.social•16 days ago

Is it run by men?

2soakers.bsky.social•16 days ago

Mysogynist men! Ask Lisa Laflamme

davemunro.bsky.social•16 days ago

ctv hs pretty well always supported CONservatives.
#cdnpoli

pemills.bsky.social•15 days ago

It is disgraceful that CTV cancelled you because of some conservative hack, but I guess it's to be expected from the same network that fired Lisa LaFlamme for having grey hair. What happened to newsrooms being independant? MSM journalism is dead.

middleagedspread.bsky.social•15 days ago

The bad-faith suppression by politically partisan mobs of fact checking by journalists is an election issue, and it’s beyond time that both political parties and media outlets understand this.

timlow3.bsky.social•16 days ago

@cbcnews-rss.bsky.social @ctvnews-rss.bsky.social @macleans.bsky.social

canadiangenxog.bsky.social•16 days ago

CTV's first two lead stories on last night's broadcast were so blatantly biased it would almost be funny if it wasn't so serious. Both about the election and neither quoted Carney, just showed him getting off the plane in Victoria. Everything was focused around the Con message for the day.

rodneyhalko.bsky.social•16 days ago

I don't understand why it's not obvious.
If you don't want to be fact checked,
you want to lie!

saskboy.bsky.social•15 days ago

Part of the issue with fact check segment journalism is it puts focus on liars and frauds, and leaves good people like @elizabethemay.bsky.social out of the media cycle because they only tell the blunt truth.

depaneuse.bsky.social•15 days ago

Haha so true and sad 😢

brundlefly2.bsky.social•16 days ago

Fuckers.

collburns.bsky.social•16 days ago

So much for free speech!!

kchill.bsky.social•15 days ago

The Tell is that the conservatives didn't want your segment to happen because they knew they'd be lying throughout the election.

ericdoherty.bsky.social•16 days ago

So many people are so eager to surrender in advance. Instead, we need to be #elbowsup against maple-flavored MAGA.

jacqueline99.bsky.social•16 days ago

Cultmtl calls out the BS.

heyyougame.knoef.info•16 days ago

There’s too much American ownership of our CAN media due to Harper. We need to eliminate foreign ownership of it ASAP. It’s all skewed towards CON/right wing ideas and fears.

janfromthebruce.bsky.social•15 days ago

Under Trudeau the Torstar holdings were sold to private equity investors who were both big supporters of the federal and provincial conservatives. That paper is also silent on Gilmore's firing. https://ricochet.media/media/media-3/torstar-sold-to-private-equity-investors-what-it-means-for-canadian-media/

thebigsnit.bsky.social•16 days ago

"Does CTV work for the Poilievre campaign? Or are they just spineless hypocrites?"

Both????

olenia1974.bsky.social•15 days ago

Looking at their coverage , it looks like they do work for Poilievre. Sad and pathetic. They all cover this election horribly. They point to every little thing Mark Carney "did" wrong, spread Poilievre's lies, but to Poilievre they give pointers, how to turn things around.

neuvel.net•16 days ago

Good title.

rachelgilmore.bsky.social•16 days ago

I've heard from multiple sources about conversations within various major newsrooms about this incident, and managers batting down the idea of covering it.

Idk, I just kinda feel like these stories are canaries in the coal mine.

But maybe that's just because I lived it hahah

saskboy.bsky.social•15 days ago

Canadians want to hear about rot in newsrooms, but it's being squelched. As a result, people remain ignorant of the danger and how torqued the news is here. They won't even talk to people concerned about the climate crisis, for example. It's dangerous.
#cdnpoli

paulinwpg.bsky.social•16 days ago

We need to avoid going any further down the rabbit hole than we already have from an independent journalism perspective.

dman905.bsky.social•15 days ago

This scumbag is openly saying he wants to deepen ties with the USA with everything that’s going on in the world. With our military no less. The election cannot come soon enough. Pierre Poilievre the little weasel, needs to go away forever.

-Occupy Canada

giggityg.bsky.social•15 days ago

This is NOT NORMAL. We are frogs in a slowly boiling pot and this is still NOT NORMAL. It's not you it's the culture.

timlow3.bsky.social•16 days ago

No Rachel. This is exactly the foreign interference the Hogue report told us about. We should all report it via the Public Safety Canada web form.
#elbowsup
https://www.canada.ca/en/security-intelligence-service/corporate/reporting-national-security-information.html

timlow3.bsky.social•15 days ago

So to be clear I mean. No Rachel it's not just because you lived it. We all see it and it's an information attack. That's why we should all report it and @cbcnews-rss.bsky.social @macleans.bsky.social and @ctvnewsottawa.bsky.social should be reporting on it.

errantballs.bsky.social•16 days ago

It’s because they all want to maintain the option to dump inconvenient journalists that may threaten their viewership

firebreath.bsky.social•16 days ago

Nah, I think it's definitely a canary; the right has been dunking on MSM for years now, calling them "unreliable" and "partisan"...
But always framing it in a way that sounds like MSM is against them...

Now, we see more and more how MSM is catering TO them.
Because they whine VERY loudly..?

darknetwerk.bsky.social•16 days ago

Kind of fits thematically with the story about how journos are being treated by the CPC campaign.

There's an understandable tendency for journos & managers to avoid becoming the story but how groups or a campaign treat journalists is important.

As you say, canary in the coal mine. Just look south.

soverynotcalm.bsky.social•16 days ago

These same conversations were happening in US MSM newsrooms ahead of the 2016 election, and look how great that turned out! 💁‍♀️

thereallsc.bsky.social•16 days ago

HERE's a "story" that must be amplified.
SOMEONE must know how to get this misogynist bigot disqualified.
https://pressprogress.ca/conservative-candidate-used-a-secret-signal-group-chat-with-freedom-convoy-leaders-right-wing-media-and-far-right-influencers/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=NEWS%20ALERT%3A%20Secret%20chat%20tied%20Conservative%20Candidate%20to%20Freedom%20Convoy%2C%20Far-Right%20Figures&utm_campaign=PP%20News%20Alert%3A%20BC%20%26%20Politics%20Oct%207%20%28Copy%29

whenwefightwewin12.bsky.social•16 days ago

He's deplorable. How can voters want this type of clearly unsuitable candidate?

saemg.bsky.social•16 days ago

I'm not sure why they're pretending that it won't happen to them (a bigger player), we've seen the path to escalation just south of the border

saemg.bsky.social•16 days ago

nevermind, i do know (false humility on my part), they're fools

emilywinepirate.bsky.social•16 days ago

Ugh it’s worrisome they won’t cover what Poilievre’s campaign did to you, yet they all circled the wagons when Mark Carney was “snarky” to Rosemary Barton after she made baseless accusations against him. The bias in MSM is out of control

whenwefightwewin12.bsky.social•16 days ago

This!! And she really did need to look inside herself!!

emilywinepirate.bsky.social•16 days ago

She does. And now she’s part of history because what an iconic line
.

whenwefightwewin12.bsky.social•16 days ago

My favorite!!

kentonagbone.bsky.social•16 days ago

But if these MSM managers comply in advance, then they will be spared when an autocratic force takes power!

tattooed-thornback.bsky.social•16 days ago

Facts left journalism along time ago in science/medicine reporting. Now we've moved into "coddle idiots because they get angry" on all fronts. I hate it.

curtisharvie.bsky.social•16 days ago

I think you're right about it being a canary in a coal mine, the right is going to keep attacking journalists, corporations are going to cave, and those of us who care will have to call them out over and over.

themeaningofliff.bsky.social•16 days ago

I think it's because the reality is that MSM makes this decision all the time: the news room gets a call from the bigwigs demanding that a story be pulled - and that's what happens, it's pulled. And we never hear about it.

In this case, because you were independent, and prepared to stand by your...

themeaningofliff.bsky.social•16 days ago

...ethical standards we heard about it. That's why most MSM in Canada is ignoring it, it hits just a little to close to the bone for them, so they ignore it and wish it will go away.

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