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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Monk debates!

Not long ago, a few thousand people gathered at Roy Thompson Hall in Toronto, the fanciest performance space in the city, to hear a debate.

Parliamentary style, opening statements, the bottles, closing arguments.

So I want all of us to think tonight carefully on our debate motion.

Be it resolved, do not trust the mainstream media.

Speaking for the resolution, we're two prominent journalists.

My name is Matt Taibi, I've been a reporter for 30 years and I argue for the resolution, you should not trust mainstream media.

Taibi was one of the people Elon Musk turned to when he took over Twitter to publish on Twitter the so-called Twitter files, with the intent of showing that liberals were meddling with free speech.

Matt Taibi has a massive online following.

I grew up in the press, my father was a reporter, my stepmother was a reporter, my godparents were reporters.

Basically every adult I knew growing up was a reporter, so I actually love the news business, but I mourn for it.

It's destroyed itself by getting away from its basic function, which is just to tell us what's happened.

Taibi's partner was the prominent English journalist Douglas Murray.

Oxford educated beautiful suit, a certain international man of mystery, Zappoff Fair.

It's a great pleasure to be here as Rudyard said, I've come a rather long way from the front lines of Ukraine conflict, because I like to see these things with my own eyes.

For myself and to come to my own conclusions, I came out through Moldova the other day, through London, and then got to Toronto and then I said, why are you going to Toronto?

I said, an invitation to Toronto in late November, who on earth says no to that.

Only a madman would say no to that.

On the other side, defending the mainstream media was the New York Times columnist Michelle Gowberg, a monk to beat veteran.

One of America's strongest liberal voices.

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