Tuesday, January 04, 2022

Inside the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

This does not surprise me at all:

A veteran producer has resigned from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, claiming in a scathing column that the network abandoned journalistic integrity to embrace a "woke" worldview and "a radical political agenda that originated on Ivy League campuses in the United States." 

Tara Henley, a now-former TV and radio producer, penned an entry on Substack on why she left the CBC, detailing a newsroom stifled by far-left ideology that limits critical thinking and obsesses over race.

"For months now, I’ve been getting complaints about the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation," she wrote. "People want to know why, for example, non-binary Filipinos concerned about a lack of LGBT terms in Tagalog is an editorial priority for the CBC, when local issues of broad concern go unreported. Or why our pop culture radio show’s coverage of the Dave Chappelle Netflix special failed to include any of the legions of fans, or comics, that did not find it offensive. Or why, exactly, taxpayers should be funding articles that scold Canadians for using words such as ‘brainstorm’ and ‘lame' "...

Henley feels she used to be one of the most liberal staffers at the network, but things changed as her colleagues drifted further to the left. 

"I am now easily the most conservative, frequently sparking tension by questioning identity politics. This happened in the span of about 18 months. My own politics did not change," Henley wrote. "To work at the CBC in the current climate is to embrace cognitive dissonance and to abandon journalistic integrity"...

"To work at the CBC now is to accept the idea that race is the most significant thing about a person, and that some races are more relevant to the public conversation than others. It is, in my newsroom, to fill out racial profile forms for every guest you book; to actively book more people of some races and less of others," Henley continued. "To work at the CBC is to submit to job interviews that are not about qualifications or experience — but instead demand the parroting of orthodoxies, the demonstration of fealty to dogma. It is to become less adversarial to government and corporations and more hostile to ordinary people with ideas that Twitter doesn’t like."

The Canadians are much more European than they are American--thus, very left-leaning--and you should expect to see that reflected in their government and press.

2 comments:

Ellen K said...

There are more of what I would call "Classical Liberals" leaving their feathered nests of Academia and Big Media and Big Tech for just the reasons this writer has listed. Substack is a great source of opinion based in fact. I think like an angry boil, this is a situation that is about to burst in a very publicly painful way. The Left has become so ambitious to promote their wish lists of quasi-Marxist ideals, that they have forgotten that many of us do not want to just go along. Lines are forming. It's time to pick a side if you have no already done so.

Darren said...

I've picked a side.