Mark Steyn and the Decline of Journalism
The Ann & Phelim Scoop
The Unreported Story Society
4.7 • 556 Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2024
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the Ann & Phelim Scoop. On today’s show, we bring you a very special interview with Mark Steyn, straight from his cruise ship! Our discussion is centered around media and its influence in framing the progressive narrative. Between Mark and us, there couldn’t have been any better candidates to talk about this issue with. In case you didn’t know, Mark Steyn was recently sued for defamation by climate activist Michael Mann. The litigation was utterly entertaining and very eye-opening to the hostile nature of the climate change movement when their climate alarmism comes under scrutiny. We covered the entirety of the trial with our verbatim podcast: Climate Change on Trial. If you haven’t listened yet, now is the time.
It was amazing to see how Leftist media institutions covered the Michael Mann v. Mark Steyn trial. Publications like The New York Times and CNN practically ran the same stories after the verdict, never having sent a single reporter to the trial at all. This should raise a lot of concerns about the structural and systemic biases within mainstream media. If anything, the coverage of the Mark Steyn trial proves how we live in hermetically sealed media worlds. This is not an episode you’ll want to miss.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello Mark, welcome to the Alan Phelam Scoop podcast. |
| 0:03.0 | Great, I haven't, it seems like years since I've seen you guys. |
| 0:07.0 | I suppose what most people really want to know about the trial and all that is how are your cats? |
| 0:14.0 | Did they, how did they miss you? |
| 0:17.0 | Because our cats, we were there for the month as well and our cats were left |
| 0:21.9 | us a number of angry messages when we got home. |
| 0:24.7 | Yes. |
| 0:26.0 | I have to say my cats were not in the least bit sympathetic about my defeat at trial in |
| 0:33.9 | Washington, D.C. |
| 0:35.0 | And when I got back to my cats, it was, you know, you'd almost think they didn't care a wit |
| 0:41.1 | about the fact that I'd just lost in that hideous D.C. courtroom. |
| 0:49.6 | Will you welcome my longtime colleague. |
| 0:55.3 | He's got his own show in Canada. |
| 0:58.9 | He's a best-selling author in Canada. |
| 1:00.8 | But I always think of him as the plaintiff in the fabulous landmark lawsuit, Lawton versus Canada. |
| 1:10.5 | And he's just one man and Canada is |
| 1:15.5 | supposedly a G7 nation but he managed supposedly but he managed to kick |
| 1:22.0 | Canada's butt clear across the courtroom in that lawsuit will you please |
| 1:26.6 | welcome Andrew Lawton. |
| 1:34.3 | And will you also welcome my two, I sort of regard my, |
| 1:40.3 | I fly flags of convenience, I'm one of Andrew's fellow Canadians, and I'm also one of these next two guests, fellow Irishmen. |
| 1:51.1 | And that used to be a kind of good thing, but Ireland, even by the standards of Western nations, has absolutely gone down the toilet in the last few years in a quite disgraceful way. |
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