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 …
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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
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4. Not just Godfrey but senior Postmedia people (Andrew Coyne, Terence Corcoran) refused to say that cartoon was racist.
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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.
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6. And Jon Kay, editor of Canada's counterpart to Harper's magazine, said cartoon was tasteless but not racist.
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7. Godrey is most powerful figure in Canadian print media. Coyne, Corcoran, Kay are all major figures in Canadian media.
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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.
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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
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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.
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@jamescowan Well, I think @Scott_Gilmore is a person of great substance.
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