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Podcast: The Great Canadian Talk Show
Episode: Aug 24 2023- Unionized Reporter Manufactures 'Big-Liquor' Conspiracy As Liquor Mart Pickets End
Description: When it became apparent that the liquor supply disruptors were heading to a contract agreement, the mainstream media lost a reliable supply of daily hot takes and updates. In analyzing the fallout, we see how unionized reporters can show their bias when reporting on government labour issues.
As Marty Gold describes in Episode 50, there had already been a difference of opinion between the MGEU and the liquor workers union about moving to arbitration. And NDP leader Wab Kinew and his MLLC critic Lisa Naylor had already given contradictory messages on how they would handle labour actions if...