http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2014/10/31/a-national-icon-deficit-what-the-ghomeshi-scandal-illustrates-about-the-state-of-cbc-radio-one/ Responses to Media and Culture Fri, 12 Feb 2016 19:35:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.5 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2014/10/31/a-national-icon-deficit-what-the-ghomeshi-scandal-illustrates-about-the-state-of-cbc-radio-one/comment-page-1/#comment-439608 Sun, 23 Nov 2014 12:33:55 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=24878#comment-439608 While I wasn’t aware of the Gomeshi scandal up to now (so much for it not making the headlines that I read …), the “… personalities were the anchoring force …” sentence is a mystery: without personalities on TV or radio no one would watch or listen. There is no way to “robo-sign” a program worth remembering. It always has to have a “Larry King” feel to it. And since these guys are divas they tend to undermine each other when put before the same cart. And if they are not really Gandhi-like personalities, with their fame there will come vulnerabilities. The local radio host might have seen his 50th marriage anniversary go by and no other woman ever looking at him. The national celebrity will either have been invited on some rich people’s yachts, taken a few too pricey presents are had too many outside affairs. I don’t think people would have like a news anchor like Gandhi.

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