{"id":78433,"date":"2022-12-06T03:00:08","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T08:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=78433"},"modified":"2022-12-05T10:58:18","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T15:58:18","slug":"the-outcome-of-the-latest-munk-debates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2022\/12\/06\/the-outcome-of-the-latest-munk-debates\/","title":{"rendered":"The outcome of the latest Munk Debates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donna Laframboise<\/a> summarizes what happened last week in the Munk Debates as Matt Taibbi and Douglas Murray spoke in favour of the proposition “Be it resolved, don’t trust mainstream media” while Malcolm Gladwell and Michelle Goldberg argued against:<\/p>\n

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Last week, an old fashioned public debate took place here in Canada. The topic:<\/p>\n

Be it resolved, don’t trust mainstream media.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Journalists Douglas Murray (UK) and Matt Taibbi (US) argued the pro\/agree side.<\/p>\n

Journalists Malcolm Gladwell (Canada) and Michelle Goldberg (US) argued the con\/disagree side.<\/p>\n

The event was sponsored by Munk Debates, which has been holding these events since 2008. Before the debate commences, audience members vote. Two hours later, they vote again. <\/p>\n

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On this occasion, the opinion swing was dramatic. The “don’t trust” side grew by 39% — apparently the largest swing ever in a Munk debate. At the beginning, slightly less than half<\/strong> of the in-house audience held this opinion (48%). Afterward, it was two-thirds<\/strong> (67%).<\/p>\n

(When two-thirds of a population agrees on anything, you’re in supermajority territory — a number large enough to change constitutions.)<\/p>\n

Here’s the key point: the winning side of the debate placed great emphasis on the scandalous manner in which Canada’s mainstream media covered the Freedom Convoy. Residing as he does in Britain, Douglas Murray had no trouble cutting through the nonsense. In the 3-minute video clip at the top of this post, he says our Prime Minister started by calling protesters names, and ended by invoking the Emergencies Act<\/em>. Here’s what he says next:<\/p>\n