A veteran news producer for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has said she quit in disgust at the national network jettisoning “journalistic integrity” for a woke “radical political agenda.”
In an op-ed for the National Post, Tara Henley said she left following a flood of complaints about the dramatic change at the CBC over the last 18 months.
“When I started at the national public broadcaster in 2013, the network produced some of the best journalism in the country,” she wrote in a tirade also shared on her new Substack.
“By the time I resigned last month, it embodied some of the worst trends in mainstream media,” wrote Henley, a 20-year news veteran.
Working at the network now involves having to “abandon journalistic integrity,” Henley insisted.
“It is to sign on, enthusiastically, to a radical political agenda that originated on Ivy League campuses in the United States and spread through American social media platforms that monetize outrage and stoke societal divisions.
“It is to pretend that the ‘woke’ worldview is near universal — even if it is far from popular with those you know, and speak to, and interview, and read,” she said.
CBC staff have to “accept the idea that race is the most significant thing about a person, and that some races are more relevant to the public conversation than others.”
“It is, in my newsroom, to fill out racial profile forms for every guest you book; to actively book more people of some races and less of others,” she claimed.
She said the radical change at the broadcaster led to a flood of complaints in the months before she quit.
“People want to know why, for example, non-binary Filipinos concerned about a lack of LGBT terms in Tagalog is an editorial priority for the CBC, when local issues of broad concern go unreported,” she wrote.
“Or why our pop culture radio show’s coverage of the Dave Chappelle Netflix special failed to include any of the legions of fans, or comics, that did not find it offensive.”
Instead, a “growing list of subjects are off the table,” and staffers are forced to “keep one’s mouth shut, to not ask questions, to not rock the boat.”
“This, while the world burns,” she wrote.
The CBC did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.