2. Aside from further accounts of Ghomeshi's vileness, article important for institutional portrait of CBC management's enabling.
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3.The description this article offers of CBC (budget cuts, hunger for celebrity face, precarious staffers) overlaps with my own sense.
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4. I talked about political economy behind Ghomeshi scandal earlier here: https://storify.com/JeetHeer1/the-political-economy-of-jian-ghomeshi …
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@dsquareddigest has contested the analysis offered by Borel & myself:https://twitter.com/dsquareddigest/status/539783314979037185 …Jeet Heer added,
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6. His argument is talking about budget cuts,etc. is just side issue, deflecting blame.
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@dsquareddigest also points to Jimmy Savile scandal as counter-example: happened when BBC was flush with cash.1 reply 2 retweets 3 likes -
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8. Stepping back, argument isn't so much about direct causation as the sociology of abuse and its tolerance.
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9. Abuse & tolerance of abuse flourishes, I'd argue, in hierarchies: Catholic church & other religions, military, Hollywood.
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10. In a stark hierarchy, a few individuals have immense power, so their abuse gets tolerated and protected (for institutional reasons).
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11. In Savile case, hierarchy that protected him was longstanding BBC pyramid, with special forbearance for "light entertainment" dept.
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12. Savile was also protected by pop music hierarchy: he was kind of rock star, same as Led Zeppelin, etc.
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13. With Ghomeshi, what you had was the attempt, surprisingly successful, to manufacture a rock star.
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14. CBC wanted to make Ghomeshi a rock star for reasons that I think are deeply rooted in political economy.
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