Premier Doug Ford says mainstream journalists have become irrelevant because social media allows him to speak directly to Ontarians.
The Ontario premier told a conference of conservative thinkers, strategists and politicians Saturday that journalists are "losing the battle" to inform people about the news.
During last year's provincial election, he recounted how he "drove the media crazy" by going directly to voters through social media tools like Facebook and Youtube and Twitter. "They want to take what you said and clip and chop and twist it around but we went direct to the people. And they know they're losing the battle," Ford said.
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