9. What's interesting here is the economic subtext of comments: "he was too big. Show was a f----ing juggernaut...brand of Q"
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10. The CBC has always seen it's job as creating Canadian celebrities, an often bathetic exercise.
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11. It's possible CBC has always pampered and indulged its "stars" -- you do hear stories of older "stars" who were womanizers.
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12. But the stuff Ghomeshi allegedly did goes way, way, way beyond whatever "womanizing" went on in 1950s or 1970s.
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13. We have to look at Ghomeshi's culture of abuse at CBC as taking place at particular economic juncture for CBC.
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15. As CBC faced squeeze and imperative to attract younger listeners, Ghomeshi was a god-send. He fit networks need for moment.
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16. Ghomeshi got ratings, got young listeners, built the brand. His star status fit new CBC. That's why he was given incredible licence.
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17. Ghomeshi the untouchable star was one side of CBC class divide. On other side was his staff.
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18. In the neo-liberal CBC, the staff were the precariat -- contract workers, interns, people with precarious, temporary status.
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19. For the abusive star, being surrounded by an army of precariat workers, many of them young women, was ideal opportunity.
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20. Within the precariat, class solidarity is weak: people are always being shifted around, jobs are temporary.
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21. Lacking class solidarity or culture of resistance, precariat workers are easily abused by abusive star.
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