Yeah no doubt. Given that an employer can fire you for any reason they chose, the CBC was careful at due diligence in this case, with possibly an offer for him to quietly take time away, so that even if it went to arbitration the steps appear to be in place to let Ghomeshi go. The large murals of Ghomeshi have been brought down at the CBC, he’s been replaced on his radio show, so with this all so swiftly in place, the CBC must have determined that Ghomeshi would be damaging to the brand if action were not taken.
What is also interesting is the CBC has hired an outside firm to investigate further, the abuse charges, and the workplace environment at Q. This firm is going to be interviewing the staffers and alleged victims of Ghomeshi who worked on the production team. CBC is definitely taking the matter very seriously. The revelations about the Ghomeshi scandal have been the top news story on the CBC for the last few days. Defenders of Ghomeshi think this is a smear campaign. For me, I think it’s more CBC doing as much as they can to lay the blame at Ghomeshi’s doorstep to mitigate the fall out they will inevitably receive.
I wonder if he can be court ordered into counseling. I’m surprised no actual rape allegations have surfaced yet.
Again, his union agreement insures his lawsuit cannot succeed, as has been pointed out repeatedly in the press. He filed it solely to silence the CBC from revealing anything further than what he chose to reveal. Not a bad strategy actually.
But I think he took The Toronto Star’s initial reticence to publish it’s finding, as proof they found them unsustainable. But it sort of looks now like they were afraid of being sued by him. But once he’d outed his kink on Facebook, they were free to publish what they had without that worry.
He, for the briefest moment, initially appeared to garner a fair bit of support and even sympathy. It must have been crushing to watch his well crafted spin turn into a maelstrom. Not that I have any sympathy for him, but on day one he had defenders, legions of fans and some high profile folks too!
I don’t think the CBC will get too much fallout, personally. I think the amount of defenders this guy has is totally overblown. As far as I can tell, the people making noise in his favor are the usual gang of internet malcontents who have jumped on his cause for their own personal grudges against women and feminism. They don’t seem like the type who would have ever listened to CBC or his show before this happened. His show seemed pretty carefully tailored to a totally different crowd.
Well the Reva Seth’s account could be considered rape, she didn’t know that it could be.
I think you are missing the angle he is comming from - he’s saying the CBC is carrying out these activities to limit the fallout from those who might hold the CBC responsible for doing nothing about Mr. G.'s harrassment and abuse until now, not the fallout from those who support Mr. G. and believe his version of events (who are, after the current revelations, a dwindling number).
Possibly, but the culture at Q was to “work around” the neaderthal proclivities of Jian Ghomeshi, women staffers have been in tears over the way he treated them. The CBC management will need to account. As a public broadcaster paid for by the taxpayer, they’ll need to disclose how they will clean this up.
That is true - the CBC could get accused of a hostile work environment.
Apparently Graphic evidence was shown to cause the firing:
Toronto Police are now investigating
And the Star has more details
Now that is not fair at all. We have no reason to believe that Neanderthals acted like Ghomeshi at all and tarring them with that comparison is completely unjustified.
Am I reading these reports correctly? … he thought that showing explicit videos of him in consensual S&M sex would be considered evidence that allegations made by multiple others that acts with them were non-consensual were false? That’s like a man alleged of multiple rapes showing an expliit video of himself in consensual sex saying that such proved the rape charge was false.
To be honest, when this story first broke, I thought his quickness in being extremely forthcoming and overly detailed was a savvy media strategy to get in front of the information that was going to come out anyway … as it has escalated, I’m now thinking he’s really just around the bend delusional.
The Ballad Of The Persian Cowboy*
Or
An Open Letter to Jian Gomeshi
In
Verse
To The Tune Of
The Ballad Of The Green Berets**
Dear Jian I loved your show
So sad I was when you did go
Once King of Spain and then Hogtown
It was you who brought Thornton down
Assless chaps upon your legs
She ain’t game unless she begs
Slaps are just some light foreplay
And chokes don’t count if lights don’t fade
Your voice and charm will conquer all
If they don’t then there’s the gag ball
Persistence will bring them around
You are the man brought Thornton down
Now they all claim they rebuffed you
But how could they? That the big Q
It’s not like you’re some Fox News clown
Cuz it was you that took Thornton down
Here’s the point where I must say
I would have bet good cash you’re gay
But, that aside, you’re in a mess
So here’s what I humbly suggest
Put assless chaps upon his legs
And then on hers, be the one who begs
Give it a try, and while you bow down
Remember when you took Thornton down
Zeke
*The Persian Cowboy thing is a nod to my sister.
** I mean in no way to disrespect the former current and future members of that August organization. Nor do I intend the same to Sgt. Sadler and his family. 
That article is a good summary of how fast things have been escalating. I think the count is now eight women coming forward, two of whom have now gone to the police. The two PR firms he was dealing with have dumped him, including Navigator, a prominent “damage control” firm that said they could no longer represent him because he had lied to them. His publisher dumped him and will not be publishing his next book, and other firms and individuals are distancing themselves from him. His lawsuit against the CBC is becoming a joke – the real problem the CBC may have isn’t justifying the firing, but explaining why they didn’t act sooner.
Apparently this was a sordid secret long known to industry insiders who couldn’t do anything because they had no concrete evidence, and came to light only because of the investigative efforts of The Star and freelance journalist Jesse Brown. Ironically, Ghomeshi accelerated his own downfall. He knew Brown was investigating him, and according to the article he went to CBC executives last week in a preemptive effort at damage control when Brown publicly announced that he was working on a “monster” story that would be “worse than embarrassing for certain parties” – and it turned out that Brown had been talking about something entirely unrelated! There’s something almost Shakespearean about the self-entrapment of a guilty mind.
P.S.- I still say Ghomeshi was a skilled interviewer and Billy Bob Thornton was a complete and total asshole in that famous encounter. Those things are really unrelated to Ghomeshi’s personal issues.
Co-signed. Just as Thornton is a brilliant actor but a narcissistic asshole.
The police are now getting involved.
I suspect he was hoping, by ‘coming out’ on FB, that he could potentially continue to not only control the spin, but possibly control the women from coming forward - a show of strength. Sadly, if there had been fewer women, or none that wanted to put their names out there, it may have worked.
The only way he could have hoped to pull this off would have been to be honest with the Crisis Management firm from the get-go, be contrite, admit he did some terrible things and go into a treatment program. People LOVE a comeback story. If I was hired as his PR guru (which I am not, and have no desire to be), it would be a tough one, but could be managed.
The problem is, it requires him to be apologetic, sincere and also to admit he did wrong, none of which he seems willing to do at this point. His ongoing mental issues and HUGE ego will be his downfall.
Maybe I’m going to hell but I LMAO at some of these Halloween costumes. I don’t get the anti-female vibe from them that the author of the article sees.
By the way - apologies to the OP, but non-Canadians should be aware of what a completely shite band Moxy Fruvous used to be. Here’s a taste of it, and the comments under the video say it better than I could (“The Wiggles for adults” indeed.) They were huge among the same type of 15-20 year olds who would be Harry Potter freaks now.