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“Objectivity for the sake of objectivity often means make sure that the powerful always get their say. And sometimes Caesar shouldn’t have his say. Sometimes the truth is just true.”
As a foreign war correspondent, Jeremy Scahill revealed secret military campaigns in Yemen, Pakistan and Somalia that resulted in congressional investigations. His books Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army and Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield were widely celebrated and he could have gotten a high-profile job in mainstream media. But instead, he became a founding editor of The Intercept, a news outlet dedicated to "fearless, adversarial journalism." He hosts their podcast, Intercepted.
Jeremy Scahill talks about excoriating mainstream networks on their own platforms, who Canada is killing overseas and why he hopes the media is learning lessons right now that they will carry beyond Trump.
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A series of media scoops have shown that some politicians are actually rich people who want to keep their money.
Bernie Sanders comes to Canada to tell us about our healthcare system.
The government has been debating the so-called Ghomeshi rules, new legislation that would change how sexual assault cases are dealt with in court.
BuzzFeed News Washington correspondent Paul McLeod co-hosts.
Paul's Twitter: @pdmcleod
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Adam Gopnik lived out a certain Canadian fantasy. He left the country and became a prominent New York intellectual. He writes about the move in his new book, At the Stranger's Gate.
Gopnik is now a staff writer at the New Yorker, where he writes about Canada — like in this profile of Michael Ignatieff or the recent piece, "We Could Have Been Canada."
He talks about how New York has changed, whether it still has anything to offer to dreamy exiles, and the bright side of Canada being run by a small pool of political elites. Jesse tries to keep up.
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Quebec passes a racist law.
A bunch of media outlets ran a story that used video manipulation and questionable translation to make it look like an imam was calling for the slaughter of Jews. After he lost his job, his reputation was ruined and there were hateful protests at his mosque, Toronto Star --who ran the original story-- exposed the dangerous flaws of the early reporting.
Student leader Masuma Khan faced censure from Dalhousie University for a vulgar, anti-Canada 150 Facebook post and some of the usual free speech purists are conspicuously silent.
And we address listener questions about a weird story in Fast Company about Casper and the online mattress industry.
Massey journalism fellow Naheed Mustafa co-hosts.
Naheed's Twitter: @NaheedMustafa
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The Toronto Star's Daniel Dale has become one of the most-watched journalists in Washington in part by simply enumerating Donald Trump's lies (Dale counted 720 as of last week). He got his start covering pomp and fatuousness by being the Star's reporter in charge of following the Rob Ford administration.
This episode was recorded live at the Hot Docs Podcast Festival in Toronto on October 15, 2017.
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The Conservative Party leader walked away from a scrum when pressed about his campaign manager working in far right media company The Rebel's office during his campaign.
We look at the language around Gord Downie's death.
And there are a lot of unanswered questions in the story of freed hostage Joshua Boyle.
Freelancer and former VICE reporter Justin Ling co-hosts.
Justin's Twitter: @justin_ling
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Sarah Polley talks about how she helped Jesse break a major story.
And she discusses domestic abuse, sexual harassment and assault, and the culture that fuels it.
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An "unprecedented national collaboration" between The National Observer, Global, The Toronto Star and more exposes the dangers of sour gas in Saskatchewan. But as OurSask.ca points out, they forgot to mention the CBC broke the story two years ago.
The Globe and Mail pillories the Liberals' tax plan.
CBC journalists find creative ways to criticize the CBC.
The National Post's Jen Gerson co-hosts.
Jen's Twitter: @jengerson
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The way we make culture in Canada is finished. The CanCon system was built around radio frequency and cable subscriptions. That's done.
Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly had the thankless task of crafting a new culture plan that was sure to disappoint. She is now being viciously attacked by the press, the same press that did not get their requested newspaper bailout.
In the plan, Joly announced a boost (as yet unspecified) to the Canadian Media Fund, funding for a cultural export strategy and a digital news incubator envisioned as a joint venture between Ryerson University and Facebook.
But all anybody seemingly wants to talk about is the deal in which Netflix has pledged $500-million over five years toward original Canadian content - and why that's somehow a terrible thing.
Joining Jesse is University of Ottawa professor and digital technology expert Michael Geist to unpack the deal.
Also on this episode Ira Wells, contributor to The Walrus, discusses how Canada's revamped cultural policy aims low and ignores art.
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Co-host Omar Mouallem lives in the Edmonton neighbourhood where the terror attack took place over the weekend. He discusses what he saw in the news versus what he saw in real life.
On Jagmeet Singh's first interview with CBC's Power and Politics as the NDP's leader, Terry Milewski takes the opportunity to grill him about the Air India bomber.
The takes are in for the Government's #DigiCanCon plan, AKA The Netflix Deal, to revamp the Canadian content industry.
Omar's Twitter: @omar_aok
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