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Originally Posted by cannon7
While this is technically true as Cherry was employed by SN and as such is not being directly punished by the Canadian government for his speech -- it was on a show produced in partnership with a government-funded entity (CBC). Imagine it was CBC doing the firing...
Just because it is legal doesn't make it right. And what do you think the impact will be for punishing a public figure for making an insensitive observation? Are all insensitive observations expressed aloud fireable offenses? Is that the standard we want to set? Because Cherry is only the latest in a long line of standard setting in this direction.
There's a term for this: the chilling effect. |
CBC had zero to with it, though. Roger's could have had the whole hockey package without CBC, but they realized CBC has far reach and people associate them with HNIC.
So they literally just show the games on CBC. There is no CBC production studio or staff or consultation. This contract and all programming decisions are 100% Rogers.