Episode 15 - The Media is the Minefield

Mother Theresa was right to distrust and avoid contact with what is now called Legacy Media. But journalists in the new, more diverse Information Age will still need individual courage if they intend to find and share the truth as their work demands. 

14. The Last Nice Country in the World

Her old life is beyond reach, but a new one takes shape. Lesley Hughes has witnessed first hand that the free press in Canada turning its back on democracy and on its own freedom. She contemplates writing her story in a book and the advice is universal: don't do it!

13 Disappeared. Again.

Vindicated! The Dead Candidate's Recovery Team releases the news that she has been cleared of all charges during the election of 2008. The story sinks like a stone. Hughes decides to demand accountability from her indifferent colleagues in media.

12. All the Justice Money Can Buy

Hughes learns why seeking justice in court is like following a drowning with a firing squad. She mortgages her house to pay legal bills. Her lawyers dodge a gag order. After almost five years of struggle and fatigue, matters take a stunning turn.

11 The First Lawyer

The dead candidate takes her defamation case to a highly respected lawyer. The names on her defendants list (which includes Canada's prime minister) cause him to "scare her for her own good." He warns that her powerful opponents can afford to fight forever and may well beat her senseless.

10. Looking for the Exit 

Canada's election of 2008 is history, but it continues to corrode the daily life, the family and mental health of The Dead Candidate. Slowly, grief and confusion give way to anger. She accepts advice from Tony Robbins and finds hope in her rights as a Canadian.

9. Memories of McCarthy

Unwilling to live with the odious label of anti-Semite, Hughes traces the tactics used to defeat her to their roots in McCarthyism. In the fifties, communists were the target. Six decades later, "truthers" who challenge the official story of September 11,2001 are smeared in an eerily similar witch hunt.