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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Feb 2016
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      2. Maybe context: Postmedia is biggest newspaper chain in Canada. One of their paper's published this cartoon https://sanseverything.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/chowcartoon.jpg …

      4 replies 12 retweets 18 likes
    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Feb 2016
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      3. Postmedia owns most of the papers in Canada. Paul Godfrey who runs Postmedia was adamant that this cartoon was not racist

      3 replies 14 retweets 16 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Feb 2016
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      4. Not just Godfrey but senior Postmedia people (Andrew Coyne, Terence Corcoran) refused to say that cartoon was racist.

      1 reply 11 retweets 21 likes
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Feb 2016
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      5. In Canadaland interview, Coyne acknowledged Post op-ed page dominated by old, white men but said there's no solution.

      2 replies 14 retweets 20 likes
    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Feb 2016
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      6. And Jon Kay, editor of Canada's counterpart to Harper's magazine, said cartoon was tasteless but not racist.

      3 replies 11 retweets 10 likes
    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Feb 2016
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      7. Godrey is most powerful figure in Canadian print media. Coyne, Corcoran, Kay are all major figures in Canadian media.

      1 reply 11 retweets 12 likes
    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Feb 2016
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      8. The media is one of the most ethnically segregated industries in Canada. You have an "ethnic media" and a mainstream (white) one.

      2 replies 35 retweets 54 likes
    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Feb 2016
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      9. Very modest attempt by BuzzFeed for ethnic diversity & gender equality in Canadian media is in context of Godfrey dominated industry

      1 reply 13 retweets 20 likes
    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Feb 2016
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      10. Note that Godfrey's endorsement of racist Sun cartoon didn't cause anywhere the same backlash as BuzzFeed. Godfrey is accepted norm.

      2 replies 10 retweets 23 likes
    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Feb 2016
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      11. Ascent some active policies to change, segregation of Canadian media will remain the norm.

      2 replies 7 retweets 10 likes
      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Feb 2016

      12. Why will it remain norm? Ask yourself i you are a young Chinese-Canadian writer. Would you want to work in Donato/Godfrey etc. industry?

      10:03 AM - 20 Feb 2016
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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Feb 2016
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          13. I think attitudes like this are not uncommon. Nor are they unwarranted. https://twitter.com/tejswatch/status/701082278827417600 …

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Feb 2016
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          14. Broader political economy is also determinant: as Canadian media shrinks, efforts to diversify will become harder.

          2 replies 11 retweets 11 likes
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        2. Tree‏ @tree_mania 20 Feb 2016
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          @HeerJeet at this point, why would anybody want to work for Godfrey period. The man is destroying Canadian media to line his pockets

          1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
        3. Canadian Curmudgeon‏ @a_halibut 20 Feb 2016
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          @gotyourselfastu @HeerJeet no choice: after buying Sun Media, nearly 1 out of 3 media jobs in canada are Postmedia. http://thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2014/10/08/Postmedia-No-More-Monopolies/ …

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