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Originally Posted by rubecube
Do you think Cliff's spin on Jordan Peterson accurately reflected why the CBC might not be so keen to do a portrayal on him?
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Well, this is sort of off the point, but I'm happy to respond to it - I suspect that the reason they aren't likely to feature him except as a pariah has to do with CBC's alignment with that perspective. I happen to think Peterson's a kook, but probably for entirely different reasons than you do and probably for different reasons than those underlying CBC's rationale for not presenting him as a public intellectual but rather as some sort of Canadian alt-right-esque figure.
That being said, using him as a specific example, I looked up their reporting on the McMaster incident and
this article certainly seems perfectly fairminded. On the other hand, there was apparently some controversy about an interview he did on CBC radio where the host was fairly unprofessional and did everything possible to attempt to convey to the audience a sense of disgust at even having to talk to the guy. That interview is linked to in
this article, which states that "Peterson's unpopular views have earned him a train of protestors wherever he goes, and that train pulled into Hamilton on Friday when the professor showed up on McMaster campus". So they're pretty clearly blaming him for people shouting him down, there, and the balance of the article contains quite a bit of transparent ideological bias. I'm not sure why you wouldn't just stick to the objective version.