3. There's been talk about what we say about Ghomeshi's talent in wake of accusations. On one level, this questions seem besides the point
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4. Surely in the wake of horrifying accusations, main duty is to listen to victims and see justice is done. JG's talent irrelevant.
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5. Yet when a celebrity gets accused of crime, we inevitably "see" the event through prior "knowledge" of & opinions about celebrity.
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6. I put "knowledge" of celebrity in quotes because for vast majority of us such knowledge is not direct but mediated.
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6A. Childcare is intervening. I'll return to this after I get Bella to bed.
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6B. Okay, Bella is asleep. Back to the epistemology of celebrityhood.
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7. Part of the art of being a great performer is being able to create the illusion of intimacy. We feel like we "know" De Niro or Brando
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8. Ghomeshi provides a case study of how illusion of intimacy works. As mentioned before I was interviewed by him twice.
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9. I had a peak at the wires behind the curtain, learned how hard his staff worked to prep him for interview.
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10. And yet despite knowing about staff work, when Ghomeshi interviewed me I felt like it was intimate & real conversation.
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11. In my interviews Ghomeshi was everything one could want: engaged, responsive, ingratiating, funny, smart, respectful.
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12. The ingratiating and kind Ghomeshi I got to "know" by interview exact polor opposite of the creep we read about from victims.
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