Toronto 640 is reportedly wooing both him & Billy Bob Thornton for when it goes all traffic all the time

Ms. C. wrote:

Toronto 640 is reportedly wooing both him & Billy Bob Thornton for when it goes all traffic all the time

lol... me thinks billy bob noticed ghomeshi's hipster vibe and decided to shake things up a bit.
 

LOSat wrote:

 the guy is not innocent.   
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I'm certain that most clear thinking folks would agree with you...





 

I'm extremely disappointed in the JG verdict.
Having worked in the Toronto market over three decades in radio, all of us in the industry knew about his reputation, including his bosses who did nothing about it despite numerous complaints from female staff.
Sexual harassment and abuse is endemic in the entertainment business, whether it be stage, movies, TV, radio, etc. where one person exercises control and hiring and firing capacity over staff members, both male and female.
I spent 55 years in Canadian Radio and TV, mostly in the major markets, Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto, Ottawa and Vancouver and many of those years in supervisory positions. Ask any of the women with whom I worked how I treated them, no differently from the males.
Those female employees who were having problems with men were far more open with me, an out gay male, than they were with straight male supervisors, who naturally would take the male-dominant position.
When there were very few females in the industry in the 60s and 70s, it was even worse with the chances of being hired and given continuing employment often hinged on what extras they could provide their male employers.
There are many managers who have gotten away with seducing staff both male and female and then discarding them when they became bored with them.
It had nothing to do with their job performance.
Others were hired for nothing more than their sexual desirability by those managers and then were disposed of when someone new came along.
That was and continues to be the reality of the business, especially now when real jobs are few and far between.
For every complaint that officially gets filed, ten do not and the abuser gets to continue his "hobby."
My advise to all emloyees is to record everything, both audio and video.
It's simple to do these days and inexpensive.
When something inappropriate happens, save the file and all the details of time, date, place, circumstances.
Recordings have helped me twice in my career with penalties paid both in cash and demotions/firings of those involved.
With hard evidence, you can speak up in confidence and a travesty such as has just occurred can be avoided.
You are important.
So is your self respect and reputation.
Call out these assholes and lay charges against them, backed up by good solid incontrovertible evidence.
This shit has to stop and you are the only one who can do it.

Good advice Mike.  The guy [ghomeshi] is who he is.  To me he was not quite an average interviewer at best.  His 'book' illustrated what a dullard he was and is.  He's poison.  His days on the air are done.

his 1/2-assed abilities should never have been suggested BY ANY PROFESSIONAL to be a 'standard' to aspire to to begin with.  After all...that's what happened.  Yet it's his 'other' 1/2 which did him in.  The secret's out.

Toodles Jian.  Adios. 

Kilgore wrote:

Christy Blatchford remarked that she would not trust any of those 3 women to look out a window and say what is happening with the weather

 Isn't that why he hooked up with them in the first place? He didn't take women's studies at York for no reason.