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Over the holidays, we’re looking back at some of the best episodes of 2022 and this was one of our biggest hits. After a stellar, decades-long career at Canada’s public broadcaster, Wendy Mesley made a big mistake: she used the “N-word” with colleagues, off the air, while talking about covering the racism issue. She paid dearly for it: her reputation was ruined, she was portrayed as a bigot and her nearly 40-year CBC career was flushed away. Mesley, now free to speak her mind as co-host of “The Women of Ill Repute” podcast, joins host Anthony Furey to talk about what happened, how she thinks the CBC, grappling with its own institutional racism charges, exploited her mistake, and about the bleak world that unforgiving Twitter-driven pile-ons are creating. (Recorded July 7, 2022)
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Over the holidays, we’re looking back at some of the best episodes of 2022 and this was one of our biggest hits. After a stellar, decades-long career at Canada’s public broadcaster, Wendy Mesley made a big mistake: she used the “N-word” with colleagues, off the air, while talking about covering the racism issue. She paid dearly for it: her reputation was ruined, she was portrayed as a bigot and her nearly 40-year CBC career was flushed away. Mesley, now free to speak her mind as co-host of “The Women of Ill Repute” podcast, joins host Anthony Furey to talk about what happened, how she thinks the CBC, grappling with its own institutional racism charges, exploited her mistake, and about the bleak world that unforgiving Twitter-driven pile-ons are creating. (Recorded July 7, 2022)
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