How does Amanda Lang get away with it? The ethically challenged Canadian Boredcasting Corpseration (CBC) entered a new low.
Apparently some boob tube yapper puppy got involved with a sideline. Art dealing. Evan Solomon evidently was palsy walsy with a big time art collector, who in turn, wanted to sell some of the junk out of his collection. Solomon set up the contacts with a couple of well known buyers.
Solomon, a golden boy at the mother corpse, and air apparent to the other ethically challenged Peter Mansbridge. For those who don't know, Mansbridge is a news anchor. The linkage is a total insult to the intelligence of all anchors.
Golden boy used his high brow contacts to connect with the art dealer. The art collector and the expired tv personality had a working professional relationship with Solomon in the role of a paid broker.
The fact that Solomon worked as an agent for the collector wasn't known to the buyers. Solomon received a commission. In a latter transaction, more art moved from the collector to the repeat buyer. Solomon managed to find out and wanted a commission for transaction as the seller had originally a secret contract with said mouth piece.
The Solomon wanted a full commission which would have been over a rumored million bucks in Canadian currency. Alas, alas and rather predictably the collector offered a sum one fifth that. Solomon dug his heels in, he wanted more. A miraculous event occurred. Solomon's secret activities were leaked to the venerated ventilated Toronto Star. In turn the CBC found out.
In a sudden tightening of the ethical line in the sand, the CBC fired Solomon. Considering that the Mother Corpse had let Amanda Lang off with a slap on the back, for ethical issues far more serious than Solomon.
In brief review, a CBC reporter filed a report about the Royal Bank of Canada's (RBC) creative use of the federal government's Temporary Foreign Worker's Program (TFW). The TFW was created to enable companies hire foreign workers to fill out vacancies that Canadians weren't able to do. Its original goal was to enable agriculture to bring in agricultural workers for harvest. Harper's Federalis then allowed other companies to participate.
The creative part was that RBC, a bank, a bloated creation of greed, brought in temporary foreign workers, had them trained by Canadians for jobs, fired the trainers, then filled these positions with the same far cheaper TFW's. This clear cut egregious evil act was reported by a CBC reporter.
Lang, a major host on CBC's Business Program, attempted to spike or kill the story before it was aired. Lang was fucking a senior RBC executive. She tried everything to stop it even to the point of trash talking the other CBC reporter. Again another media company got a hold of this little tidbit. It hit the fan.
Further she had received speaking fees from some companies. Those companies seemed to be mentioned frequently and favorably on her television program.
The CBC hired a third party to evaluate Lang's activities. That third party, a PR firm, listed the very same companies that dealt with Lang, or screwed Lang, as their business clients. So this PR firm issued a report that Lang did nothing ethically wrong. Bizarrely the CBC accepted this report and kept Lang in their employ.
Compare the level of ethical challenge of Lang with that of Solomon's activities. Consider the fact that the mother corpse decided on Gian Gomeshi's alleged sexual assaults with a heavy swift action. Solomon's activities were severely in a grey area. His activities did not directly impact CBC. Gomeshi's did directly impact. Lang's activities not only effected the CBC it also impaired the journalistic freedom of the corpse.
The CBC seems to have a sexist double standard. If you're a female offender its okay. If you are male you're out the door.
Showing posts with label Ethics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ethics. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 10, 2015
Sunday, May 31, 2015
Sunday mourning humor and phone communications
Due to the lack of any comedy shows on Sunday mornings, the Fox News planked some thoughtless, self absorbed fool, to anchor their Sunday morning programming. They are egregiously pro-Republican neo-Conservative. And they highlight just how screwed up modern right wing Conservatives are. Its a feel good program. They are so stupid anything and everything they say makes me look spectacularly intelligent.
Observation
This segment of the political spectrum are gung-ho about applying blanket unfocused electronic surveillance to deter terrorism. The Conservatives are all for the spending of money on trying to do that. It looks good on paper. Just how cost effective it is, can be and should be questioned.
It makes intelligence agencies lazy, however that's a sidebar issue. Every time that there is a large failure of intelligence gathering, there has been a previous period where that particular intelligence service has lived a period wholly dependent on electronic fact gathering. Everything owns some sort of side bar.
Paradoxically, the Conservative types also dive into an Olympic sized pool of liquid apoplexy when they find out that blanket includes them. They are outraged. In the future, Conservatives should change the law determining the coverage of the blanket. Anyone who voted Conservative should be exempt from that blanket coverage because it is an invasion of the privacy of the good.
Observation
This segment of the political spectrum are gung-ho about applying blanket unfocused electronic surveillance to deter terrorism. The Conservatives are all for the spending of money on trying to do that. It looks good on paper. Just how cost effective it is, can be and should be questioned.
It makes intelligence agencies lazy, however that's a sidebar issue. Every time that there is a large failure of intelligence gathering, there has been a previous period where that particular intelligence service has lived a period wholly dependent on electronic fact gathering. Everything owns some sort of side bar.
Paradoxically, the Conservative types also dive into an Olympic sized pool of liquid apoplexy when they find out that blanket includes them. They are outraged. In the future, Conservatives should change the law determining the coverage of the blanket. Anyone who voted Conservative should be exempt from that blanket coverage because it is an invasion of the privacy of the good.
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Quandary of internet ethics
Wouldn't you know. Just when this gets comfortable. The history of Microsoft proved one thing. The larger a company gets really big, blind greed explodes.
Google operates this blog site. It will be a challenge to them It also recently bought Double Click*. It is one of the most pervasive group of spyware on the internet.
This is alarming. While it is quite understandable for a company to provide advertising on its web pages, it is quite another for a search engine to engage in providing spyware onto users computers.
Not only that. Last January, Google developed a working relationship with Ad-aware**, once an effective anti-spyware company. It climbs into the ever annoying Google Tool Bar which itself is a form of spyware.
The question remains will Ad-aware, a Google Company, have the gonads to remove or block the spyware from Double Click? As a pararepairer for computers, what I see is the development of a very invasive data collection company like Gator***; but one with a giant reach.
For the moment I am serious contemplating of switching away from Google to Altavista.com which is a cleaner less ad invasive form of Yahoo. If you read this please join the move to reduce the use of Google replacing it with other search engines until a written declaration is made by Google to the effect that there will be Chinese Walls between these companies. Of course it is always a good policy to never trust any online computer company.
Why this ethically challenging move? In short it is a response to Microsoft's effort to buy the very invasive Claria or Gator company who I believe seriously attempts to literally take over the home personal computer. Regardless, this is a very serious move the first anti user, pro commercial move by Google. The true colours may be emerging.
Keep checking back to this particular blog entry. It may soon disappear because Google also owns the blogspot.com
Reference links
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Click
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad-aware
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gator_%28spyware%29
Google operates this blog site. It will be a challenge to them It also recently bought Double Click*. It is one of the most pervasive group of spyware on the internet.
This is alarming. While it is quite understandable for a company to provide advertising on its web pages, it is quite another for a search engine to engage in providing spyware onto users computers.
Not only that. Last January, Google developed a working relationship with Ad-aware**, once an effective anti-spyware company. It climbs into the ever annoying Google Tool Bar which itself is a form of spyware.
The question remains will Ad-aware, a Google Company, have the gonads to remove or block the spyware from Double Click? As a pararepairer for computers, what I see is the development of a very invasive data collection company like Gator***; but one with a giant reach.
For the moment I am serious contemplating of switching away from Google to Altavista.com which is a cleaner less ad invasive form of Yahoo. If you read this please join the move to reduce the use of Google replacing it with other search engines until a written declaration is made by Google to the effect that there will be Chinese Walls between these companies. Of course it is always a good policy to never trust any online computer company.
Why this ethically challenging move? In short it is a response to Microsoft's effort to buy the very invasive Claria or Gator company who I believe seriously attempts to literally take over the home personal computer. Regardless, this is a very serious move the first anti user, pro commercial move by Google. The true colours may be emerging.
Keep checking back to this particular blog entry. It may soon disappear because Google also owns the blogspot.com
Reference links
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Click
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad-aware
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gator_%28spyware%29
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