Ceeb Official Tries--and Fails--to Whitewash the Corruption at the Mothercorp

A Ceeb company gal defends (poorly, feebly, embarrassingly) her organization's blindness to the bad behavior of its former Chosen One:

CBC's executive vice-president of English Services Heather Conway is defending management's handling of the Jian Ghomeshi scandal, saying it was not the role of the broadcaster to investigate someone's private sex life.

Nice try, Heather, but it's no longer "private" when he's been seen to grope and hump interns in public, while on the job. Also--it's one thing for Ghomeshi to use a sexual category (BDSM) as a cover for what (allegedly) sounds more like A&B (assault and battery). It's entirely another--and entirely unacceptable--for the organization which for years refused to deal with his problematic antics to do so, too.

And, yes, I agree that, to quote Ghomeshi quoting Pierre Trudeau, the state has no biz in our bedrooms. But that's assuming that what goes on there is consensual and not criminal. When it crosses the line, the state has every right to proceed with a prosecution.

Update: Anne Kingston writes in Maclean's:

Jian Ghomeshi’s behaviour was an open secret, going back to his university days. Not that anyone took action. In fact, the CBC made him a star.

And what a perfect set up for a man with Ghomeshi's sexual peccadilloes as Q, his exquisitely "progressive" radio show, provided cover for his "dark side" even as it helped him procure the type of chick (young, pert, waifish, with a stick-thin "boyish'' figure) he preferred to "date":

Within Q, there’s now concern that the show’s profile as a forum for socially and politically relevant topics—rape culture, queer-positive stories, trans stories, anti-racist stories—provided cover: “Jian cultivated an identity of total progressiveness,” says a Q producer who is grappling with the allegations. “I found it really confusing at first, because, on one level, this is not the person I know. He’s someone I like a lot and care for—and all of those things make it incredibly hard. But, as it sunk in more and more, the scales are falling from my eyes. I’m seeing that some of the other behaviours that were well known—like what a narcissist he was and how toxic he could be in the workplace—are related to all of this. Now, women on the show are asking: How much were we being manipulated to prop up that identity to help protect him from this other side—and provide a gateway?” Yet this, too, was not a secret within the CBC.