Updated:<\/strong> June 11, 2020 8:32 AM EDT <\/p>\n\n\n\n Filed Under:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Wendy Mesley was sacrificed on Tuesday at the altar of political correctness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Her\n 40-year career as a stellar journalist with the CBC turned into ashes \nas she was first backstabbed by her colleagues at work and then offered \nby CBC management as a human sacrifice to vultures on a diet of cancel \nculture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The CBC story<\/a> on its website reported: \u201cWendy Mesley suspended from hosting after using \u2018careless\u2019 language in discussing racial issue.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n It\n left the clear impression that Mesley had uttered some racist remark on\n air. At no place did the story elaborate what the \u201ccareless\u201d language \nwas or that it was used in a staff meeting and that they were not \nMesley\u2019s words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt was not aimed at anyone, I was quoting a \njournalist we were intending to interview on a panel discussion about \ncoverage of racial inequality,\u201d Mesley said in an apology statement \nposted online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n The un-authored CBC story made no effort to clarify the \u2018when\u2019 and \u2018where\u2019 of the story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Was Wendy Mesley the sacrificial lamb for other errors in CBC reporting and judgment that were documented at the original Canadaland<\/a> story breaking the news about her?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mesley\u2019s\n apology was not to the person who ratted on her, but to all of Canada. \nShe tweeted: \u201cI hurt people and for that, I am very sorry. I am also \ndeeply ashamed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n No, Wendy, you did not hurt anyone. You quoted someone and only that person, and she or he alone is responsible for those words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\n can walk in the shoes of many activists who proclaim \u201cBlack Lives \nMatter\u201d, as I have done since the days of the Canadian Black Action \nDefence Committee. I marched in the Million Man March, having lived as a\n child in a climate of anti-Black racism that is ubiquitous in the \nIndian subcontinent and the Arab World.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But none of that history justifies the depiction of Wendy Mesley as a racist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n Some\n may consider it an exaggeration, but the slow strangulation of what is \npermitted language in newspapers and broadcast networks across North \nAmerica is the death of journalism as we knew it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Political\n correctness, identity politics, cancel culture and \u201cwhite guilt\u201d have \ncombined to make the exercise of \u2018objectivity\u2019, hitherto the essential \ndevice in a reporter\u2019s toolbox, almost a swear word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There was a time when opinion writing was reserved for those who had a decade or more of reporting in their pockets. No more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Today,\n the phenomenon of \u2018activist journalism\u2019 has been born. Free from the \nsupervision of an editor, these \u2018journalists\u2019 leap straight to \u2018opinion \nwriting,\u2019 never ever going through the rigours of covering the courts, \ncrime or natural disasters unless there was an ethnic or racial twist in\n the story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Truth be damned. The pressure is \non to bury the facts, lest it upset the sensibilities of guilt-ridden \nleft-wing whites. Notwithstanding the casualties they cause, political \ncorrectness is the rule of the day for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The\n CBC incident rings the memory of Winston Churchill\u2019s speech on March 5,\n 1946, in Fulton, Missouri. Free from political correctness and No. 10 \nDowning Street, Churchill bellowed: \u201cFrom Stettin in the Baltic, to \nTrieste in the Adriatic, an \u2018iron curtain\u2019 has descended across the \ncontinent, allowing police governments to rule Eastern Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Today,\n from coast to coast to coast, another iron curtain has descended on \nCanada, allowing ethnic vote banks to taint our politics and cut off \njournalism from the principle of balance and objectivity, a situation \nthat leads to a defenceless and voiceless Wendy Mesley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Take it from this man of colour, Wendy: You are not a racist, you are a journalist par excellence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" FATAH: The death of journalism as we knew it Tarek Fatah Published: June 10, 2020 Updated: June 11, 2020 8:32 AM EDT Filed Under: Wendy Mesley was sacrificed on Tuesday at the altar of political correctness. Her 40-year career as … Continue reading ![\"\"\/](\"https:\/\/postmediatorontosun.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/06\/wendy_mesley_41903331-e1591878739410.jpg\")