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Speaking Freely: Why I resigned from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

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Re: Speaking Freely: Why I resigned from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

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Post by commandlinefan »

badRNG wrote: post #92
finite_jest wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From HN guidelines ( https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ): > Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it.

Maybe I didn't word it well enough, but I intend to comment on a broad category of discussion that I don't think is necessarily inappropriate according to the guidelines, but tends to produce unproductive, hostile conversations. I understand that anti-diversity blogs often gain a lot of traction with a particular subset of HN readers, but it consistently winds up producing flame wars and can make HN a less friendly p…

It seems to me that HN is the last place you can discuss this topic - it's just preemptively deleted on Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

Re: Speaking Freely: Why I resigned from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

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Post by rsync »

nottorp wrote: post #65

Hmm going on a tangent here: do HNers "consume" news from old style media any more? I'm pretty certain that I haven't got my news from either radio or TV in a billion years. Since I had a pet dinosaur.

I habitually listen to NPR (KQED in the bay area). I find that the PBS newshour is of high quality and I also like "Fresh Air".

On the Internet side:

I enthusiastically recommend the daily "Monocle 24" news podcast. It is very well done and regardless of what you think of Monocle magazine I would suggest that if you consumed just one world news show it should be this one.

Re: Speaking Freely: Why I resigned from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

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Post by pyuser583 »

telesilla wrote: post #70
pyuser583 wrote: post #16

“The last 18 months” coincides perfectly with start of the BLM protests. I’ve been involved with an arts-based non-profit for a long time. They do very specific type of older art. They produce it, exhibit it, encourage others to produce it, etc. The art form is Eurocentric, with a political history that contains some small instances racism, and vast oceans of mainstream liberalism. Every since BLM protests happened (…

Suggest to them that they talk about exactly what you are saying here. Say that it's difficult. That we are figuring it out. Put together exhibitions that talk about it. That's a hell of a lot better than shutting down communication. Be inclusive. Ask for help from other galleries who have better representation. Maybe they can do an exchange. Identify what there is to be afraid of - it's the necessary step to moving…

Regarding putting together exhibitions, this is an author specific type of performance art. Kind of like a Shakespeare theater company.

There’s room to reinterpret the artist, but frankly interpreting this author as socially conscious has been done so many times it’s boring.

It would be like putting on a feminist production of Antigone, or a pacifist recitation of the Iliad, or an anti-racist production of Othello - not only “already done” but probably what the author intended.

The folks running the show have been avoiding actual “woke” (so hate the phrase) art for exactly this reason - already done 1000 time - and the new era demands new efforts!

Instead it’s hiring and outreach that’s gone bonkers.

Regarding communication- it isn’t that people have stopped talking. They’ve stopped listening.

Realistically, the donors are in charge. They’re the only ones listened to.

And currently the powers that be are trying very hard to find new “anti-racist” donors, preferably BIPOC donors.

I’m not sure what anyone can do about that. Other than stop donating.

What do you mean when you talk about doing an exchange with other galleries?

Re: Speaking Freely: Why I resigned from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

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Post by nick__m »

AnimalMuppet wrote: post #4
dane-pgp wrote: post #3

> It used to be that I was the one furthest to the left in any newsroom, occasionally causing strain in story meetings with my views on issues like the housing crisis. 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. I've heard people say something similar, about how they were left-wing wh…

The article didn't say what happened. Did they turn over everyone but her in the 18 months? Or did everyone but her change their position? Or did everyone but her decide that they had to look and act like they changed their position in order to fit with new directions coming down from on high? She didn't say. I wish she had; I would like to know what drove the change.

I blame the federal government that ties funding to "diversity and inclusion" to the detriment of everything else. It cause ridiculous situations like the one described in that article https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/minority-professor-den...

So if the funding for the CBC is allocated on similars concerns, her colleagues are probably scared. That would also explain why they produced this mostly absurd list of banned words https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/words-and-phrases-comm... , a list that include violent words like brainstorm, lame, grandfathered and tribe. The CBC used to be a bastion of integrity and reason, now it is a novlang factory.

Re: Speaking Freely: Why I resigned from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

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Post by smnrchrds »

gruez wrote: post #85
smnrchrds wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I cannot speak about the alleged wokeness, as I don't consume enough CBC content to make an informed judgment. What I can say is that CBC is the only major Canadian media company that is not capital C Conservative, at least among English-language media. Toronto Star used to fit this description too, but they got sold to what I think is a private equity firm who has been selling off their assets, so I don't expect the…

>What I can say is that CBC is the only major Canadian media company that is not capital C Conservative, at least among English-language media. [...] > https://readpassage.com/election-endorsements/ But the source you cited seems to only include newspapers? Media companies tend to pander to their readers, and newspapers attracts... a certain type of readers. It's not surprising that most newspapers are conservative.

These days their websites are much more prominent than their print editions, and it's what people read online and link to on Facebook and social media. They are not stuck in the past. The Globe and Mail is widely regarded as Canada's newspaper of record, and even they endorse Conservatives.

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Post by KLK2019 »

adamc wrote: post #18

I am curious what Canadians think of this argument. Does it seem true? It's hard for me, a USA resident who doesn't follow the CBC, to really evaluate.

Most people consume CBC very differently. I mostly listen to the radio and the content is pretty good and has great local news coverage. I don't think I know anyone else who follows CBC closely but I do think its overall seen as a trusted source of news.

Personally, when I think of the recent content from CBC I remmeber reading more about climate change and reconcilation with our native history. Both of Which I think are fairly important to be informed of. But I do wish they do more investigative work.

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Post by [deleted] »

badRNG wrote: post #22

I'm not sure these sorts of articles provide much value on HN. By "these sorts of articles", I mean the ones that have claimed that "diversity efforts have gone too far this time ." Regardless of your support or opposition to diversity, I think one would agree that these rapidly turn into unproductive, highly divisive comment sections that are out of place with the rest of HN.

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Re: Speaking Freely: Why I resigned from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

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Post by redisman »

epivosism wrote: post #17

What clearly seems wrong is the requirement to fill out forms on the race and gender of people you interview, and to have quotas to control whose voice is heard based on those irrelevant traits (irrelevant relative to the individual person's life, ideas, experiences, ability to express themselves etc.) My policy is to refuse to give my gender or race. If everybody did this, high frequencies of "other" or "unknown" co…

I mean they’ll just visually gauge what you are in that case. Interviewing is in no way objective

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Post by digianarchist »

CapitalistCartr wrote: post #30

Except at political groups to which I belong, I am almost always the left-most person in the room. The Lefts greatest weakness is an enthusiasm for splintering over small matters of doctrine. Identity politics, tribalism over principle, virtue signaling, whatever fad this is, it's deeply hurting progress.

People act as if this is a new thing. We’ve been doing this for decades. Hence the People’s Front of Judea gag in Life of Brian.

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Post by kbenson »

NikolaeVarius wrote: post #41
beebmam wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm a strict egalitarian and have been doing exactly this, and always encourage others to do exactly this. I refuse to state my gender, race, class, health status, sexuality, or any other qualifier that could categorize me into being discriminated against or in favor of. Let my actions speak to the quality of my character. edit: Not sure why this thread has gone deep into a discussion about pronouns. I don't identify…

At a previous job HR directly contacted me and told me to put my pronouns on my profile. I said sure and proceeded to ignore it. Fuck that shit

While I understand the sentiment, I think to some degree putting a pronoun down is for the benefit of those conversing with you, so they don't have to wonder or get it wrong.

In lieu of this, and because I don't really care what pronoun is used for me, I sometimes just put "any" if it's an option to denote that I don't care.

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