antipodcast - brown redux chapter 23
Feb. 18th, 2025 11:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
frandroidI'm a bit behind (~3 months!) on my podcast listening, and behind that on my writing about them, so here's a few more late reasons to dislike Jesse Brown and Canadaland these days.
1) Brown interviewed the Israeli ambassador to Canada, and the only real criticism he had for him was how settlers illegally attacking Palestinians in the West Bank was making HIM unsafe in CANADA. Unreal.
2) Brown's Lebanese pet, Noor Azrieh, interviewed Francesca Albanese and stuck her about how she mixed up Jews and Zionists one in 2014. Nuuuts.
2) a. On the "pet" comment. On one of their episodes together, when they do their duly noted segment, Azrieh thanked Brown for "letting her" bring on some mundane topic. To illustrate how that relationship goes... From what I gather from the show, she's a permanent resident so she's pretty dependent on Canadaland for her continued stay in the country, and you can see the colour of that relationship. Either way I'm not a fan...
3) Brown interviewed Norman Spector again for no reason and Spector straight-faced told Brown that he thought the NYT and the JP (which he used to edit, natch) were the most reliable news sources on Israel, putting in a dig at Ha'aretz along the way. To Brown's credit even that was a bit much for him, but let Spector get away with it. The rest of the interview was as you could expect with these two.
4) Brown commented on the Canadaland break up with Karyn Pugliese, the senior indigenous editor he had managed to pluck from APTN to be his Editor in Chief. Turns out that Brown can hire indigenous people to work for him, but he absolutely cannot take direction from Indigenous people, and basically said so. Whew. There's probably a share of sexism in there as well, as many past WOC employees would vouch. Pugliese is back to reporting with APTN, but she was the EiC or something close before so that kinda sucks for her.
5) The good news is that Brown did say that they had lost more subscribers this year than any other year before. They even split up the Thursday show into two shows to push more ads to listeners to make up for the lost income. Whew.
1) Brown interviewed the Israeli ambassador to Canada, and the only real criticism he had for him was how settlers illegally attacking Palestinians in the West Bank was making HIM unsafe in CANADA. Unreal.
2) Brown's Lebanese pet, Noor Azrieh, interviewed Francesca Albanese and stuck her about how she mixed up Jews and Zionists one in 2014. Nuuuts.
2) a. On the "pet" comment. On one of their episodes together, when they do their duly noted segment, Azrieh thanked Brown for "letting her" bring on some mundane topic. To illustrate how that relationship goes... From what I gather from the show, she's a permanent resident so she's pretty dependent on Canadaland for her continued stay in the country, and you can see the colour of that relationship. Either way I'm not a fan...
3) Brown interviewed Norman Spector again for no reason and Spector straight-faced told Brown that he thought the NYT and the JP (which he used to edit, natch) were the most reliable news sources on Israel, putting in a dig at Ha'aretz along the way. To Brown's credit even that was a bit much for him, but let Spector get away with it. The rest of the interview was as you could expect with these two.
4) Brown commented on the Canadaland break up with Karyn Pugliese, the senior indigenous editor he had managed to pluck from APTN to be his Editor in Chief. Turns out that Brown can hire indigenous people to work for him, but he absolutely cannot take direction from Indigenous people, and basically said so. Whew. There's probably a share of sexism in there as well, as many past WOC employees would vouch. Pugliese is back to reporting with APTN, but she was the EiC or something close before so that kinda sucks for her.
5) The good news is that Brown did say that they had lost more subscribers this year than any other year before. They even split up the Thursday show into two shows to push more ads to listeners to make up for the lost income. Whew.