Canadaland
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frandroidSo I think Canadaland was hit hard by Jesse's Zionist convulsions.
The first thing I noticed was that CL had joined the Acast network. It's basically a podcast advertising network. CL never had one of these before. I also just heard Jesse do an Audible recommendation. Audible has an affiliate network which is available to most podcasters I think, and I think CL had done Audible ads before, but it's literally been years since I heard an Audible plug on CL. The program seems to have generally lost favour with most podcasters, probably because other affiliate programs pay better.
Then I noticed that many of CL's old collaborators moved away: Mattea Roach went to CBC, Karyn Pugliese stepped down from her role as inaugural (and last, it seems) editor in chief, Jonathan Goldsbie is ostensibly on an 8 month Massey fellowship but that basically ended the Wag the Doug podcast. Justin Ling was an occasional collaborator who had been slated to take Goldsbie's Thursday slot but basically left after Brown forced edits/re-recording on an episode about Palestine (though not to actually censor things, but it just rubbed the wrong way).
As she was the most left person on CL, I was kind of upset that Émilie Nicolas kept with Brown. She even recorded a fairly earnest crowdfunding ad for the December campaign, highlighting how she felt that her interview with a Palestinian person was the highlight of her career. (I don't even remember the interview so I've requeued it--trying to recall if it really was that good?) But as the year ended, Nicolas announced that her show was over, in a fairly terse last episode. I personally think that her listenership declined and Brown ended her show due to both that and declining revenues.
She was never a challenge-the-interviewee type of person, but I was quite upset when she interviewed Michel Cormier, a respected former foreign correspondent at Radio-Canada/CBC who later was its director of information (he's retired now). She never asked him a single question about Israel/Palestine coverage in the middle of this genocide. I thought that was an immense miss. As a retired person, I'm sure he could have handled a couple questions about that.
So anyway. These are all symptoms...
The first thing I noticed was that CL had joined the Acast network. It's basically a podcast advertising network. CL never had one of these before. I also just heard Jesse do an Audible recommendation. Audible has an affiliate network which is available to most podcasters I think, and I think CL had done Audible ads before, but it's literally been years since I heard an Audible plug on CL. The program seems to have generally lost favour with most podcasters, probably because other affiliate programs pay better.
Then I noticed that many of CL's old collaborators moved away: Mattea Roach went to CBC, Karyn Pugliese stepped down from her role as inaugural (and last, it seems) editor in chief, Jonathan Goldsbie is ostensibly on an 8 month Massey fellowship but that basically ended the Wag the Doug podcast. Justin Ling was an occasional collaborator who had been slated to take Goldsbie's Thursday slot but basically left after Brown forced edits/re-recording on an episode about Palestine (though not to actually censor things, but it just rubbed the wrong way).
As she was the most left person on CL, I was kind of upset that Émilie Nicolas kept with Brown. She even recorded a fairly earnest crowdfunding ad for the December campaign, highlighting how she felt that her interview with a Palestinian person was the highlight of her career. (I don't even remember the interview so I've requeued it--trying to recall if it really was that good?) But as the year ended, Nicolas announced that her show was over, in a fairly terse last episode. I personally think that her listenership declined and Brown ended her show due to both that and declining revenues.
She was never a challenge-the-interviewee type of person, but I was quite upset when she interviewed Michel Cormier, a respected former foreign correspondent at Radio-Canada/CBC who later was its director of information (he's retired now). She never asked him a single question about Israel/Palestine coverage in the middle of this genocide. I thought that was an immense miss. As a retired person, I'm sure he could have handled a couple questions about that.
So anyway. These are all symptoms...
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Date: 2025-01-18 02:23 pm (UTC)