14. Not to sound like a doctrinaire (cough, cough @jonkay) leftist, but CBC was facing budget cuts & imperative to be run like a business.
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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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22. Beyond these structural factors, there is individual responsibility. We need to know the names of the managers who winked at abuse.
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23. The Ghomeshi scandal should be a moment of profound soul searching at CBC. What has it become, that it allowed this to happen?
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24. As always, awareness of structural context has to be balanced by equal acknowledgement of personal agency & responsibility.
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25. At heart of personal agency is Ghomeshi himself, then his enablers, including especially those who set policy.
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