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Weird Moment: Vassy Kapeolos Winds Up As A Guest On Her Own Show
Robin Gill has been subbing for Vassy Kapelos on her radio show this week, as the veteran political host took a vacation.
But the sudden announcement on Wednesday that Justin Trudeau was separating from his wife of 18 years caused producers to reach out to her and she wound up appearing as a guest panelist on her own show!
What a weird, almost surreal moment as she's introduced as a special guest on the platform where she normally asks the questions. Only in radio...
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Speaking of strange ironies, the P.M. made the announcement of his separation on a statement posted to Instagram - the very platform that is taking Canadian news away from the eyes of Canadians.
Honestly, you can't make this stuff up.
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How many people use Instagram as a news source?
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Well at least he didn't use Onlyfans
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Q: At what point does this stop being "BREAKING NEWS" a la CP24?
It was announced during the noon hour... so does CP24 still have to go with the Breaking News animation and Chyron lower thirds with the Breaking News banners/tabs at 5pm and 5:30pm ?
Slow news day???
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Capricasix wrote:
How many people use Instagram as a news source?
Probably a common view, because of journalistic bias that results in way, way too many stories about Twitter (relative to its actual MAUs, plus the fact superusers account for the overwhelming number of Twitter posts).
But in fact..."Roughly a third of U.S. adults (31%) say they regularly get news from Facebook.. A quarter of U.S. adults regularly get news from YouTube, while smaller shares get news from Twitter (14%), Instagram (13%), TikTok (10%) or Reddit (8%). Fewer Americans regularly get news from LinkedIn (4%), Snapchat (4%), Nextdoor (4%), WhatsApp (3%) or Twitch (1%)."
(and to be pre-emptive, no I don't think Canadians would be some weird outliers with this kind of thing)
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But in fact..."Roughly a third of U.S. adults (31%) say they regularly get news from Facebook.. A quarter of U.S. adults regularly get news from YouTube, while smaller shares get news from Twitter (14%), Instagram (13%), TikTok (10%) or Reddit (8%). Fewer Americans regularly get news from LinkedIn (4%), Snapchat (4%), Nextdoor (4%), WhatsApp (3%) or Twitch (1%)."
How sad is that? And what percentage of those social media news posts are full of conspiracy-theory madness?
Is it any wonder that so many people have gone off the rails into lunacy?
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Robin Gill has been subbing for Vassy Kapelos on her radio show this week, as the veteran political host took a vacation.
But the sudden announcement on Wednesday that Justin Trudeau was separating from his wife of 18 years caused producers to reach out to her and she wound up appearing as a guest panelist on her own show!
What a weird, almost surreal moment as she's introduced as a special guest on the platform where she normally asks the questions. Only in radio...
This has happened once before when she was doing work for TV and there was breaking news. It does sound strange.
Last week during the cabinet shuffle she was absent from the first hour of her radio show because she was on TV, but then during the second hour she brought her panel from TV over to radio and had virtually the same discussion she just had. Then in the final segment she interviewed someone that her fill-in host already had on the radio during hour 1.