2. English should be read in conjunction with Cole himself: https://thatsatruestory.wordpress.com/2017/05/04/i-choose-activism-for-black-liberation/ …
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3. Briefly Cole is a black activist focused on police harassment and freelance columnist for Toronto Star.
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4. English believes Cole's dual status as activist & columnist is wrong: problem is "the journalist/activist becoming the story."
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5. If we use English's standard ("journalist/activist" shouldn't be story) then we'd have to reject many classic journalists.
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6. Certainly Nelly Bly, Orwell, Normal Mailer, the Gloria Steinem of the Playboy expose etc would all be, for English, bad journalists
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7. But the Star is a newspaper, so maybe participatory journalism is beyond the pale. But even newspapers don't abide by that standard.
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8. One of the biggest political events in recent Canadian history is fusion of 2 federal conservative parties. Who pushed that? Journalists.
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9. The "Unite the Right" movement was pushed by Conrad Black, David Frum, Ken Whyte, & array of right-wing journalists.
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10. So you've already had journalists in Canada much more heavily involved in major political activism than Cole. But he's the problem?
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11. In Canada you've also had journalists run for office (Peter Worthington, Linda McQuaig, Chrystia Freeland, Michael Ignatieff, Richler).
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12. Maybe the Toronto Star is different? But they've had activist/columnists as well: Michelle Landsberg,, M & C Keilburger &Naomi Klein
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13. For decades Michelle Landsberg has been one of Canada's leading feminists, deeply active in NDP & a Toronto Star columnist. Amazing!
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14. Beyond columns, Toronto Star deeply involved with Atkinson Foundation to promote "journalists committed to social & economic justice.”
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