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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
And I’m suggesting people who come to the conclusion that it’s misogyny are missing the context of journalists across the country, men and women, being ruthlessly fired every week. Including several prominent, popular, and long-serving male radio hosts turfed by Bell in recent months. There isn’t a journalist in Canada who should be surprised if they’re laid off tomorrow.
You know when the price of oil drops by $50 a barrel, Calgary-based oil companies carry out mass layoffs, and they target long-serving employees with high salaries? That’s what’s been going on in Canadian newsrooms for years. Anyone with 15+ years experience (the few who are left at this point) is in the crosshairs.
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Comparing mass layoffs to a questionable individual termination?
It's no secret that mass layoffs usually get rid of lower performers or reduction of middle higher cost managers. If Lisa LaFlamme was part of a layoff that also impacted members of her team it would just be attributed as a cost cutting measure.
Those cuts you are talking about; these position reductions were generally not replaced.
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/bell...offs-vancouver
But this is not what happened here. She was terminated in secret, and directly replaced by a much younger man of visible minority ready to step in on day 1 and CTV staff instructed to not mention her name. Her position was not cut and considering Omar Sachedina has himself been employed for 14 years and has the same role, the cost cutting argument attempt falls fairly flat as it would be a minimal reduction.
An executive that has been quoted as "who approved her silver hair" fired a 35 year tenured employee only a couple months in his tenure that wasn't part of a round of layoffs.
And let us also not forget about the official Bell PR announcement
https://www.bellmedia.ca/the-lede/pr...arts-ctv-news/
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Recognizing changing viewer habits, CTV recently advised LaFlamme that it had made the business decision to move its acclaimed news show, CTV NATIONAL NEWS, and the role of its Chief News Anchor in a different direction.
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Nothing about cost cutting. Nothing about restructuring. It was about moving in a different direction based on changing viewer habits.
How do you move direction? From what to what? How can that statement be anything but discriminatory no matter how you try to rationalize it?