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I mean sure the diversity angle could definitely be about playing to certain audiences. Climate change ain't though. You believing it's proof of that tells us a

• transcriptase 2y ago
  Perhaps you’re assuming that I’m a climate change denier or that I take issue with it being discussed because I included it as an example. Neither is true. My point is that there was a period of time when listeners would tune in and hear things like “Coming up in the next hour, how climate change is impacting the Jazz scene in Toronto’s entertainment district!”. Perhaps they’ve dialed it back recently but it was the equivalent of keyword stuffing in radio form, and rarely anything worth listening to when considering a coast-to-coast audience. As far as the job posting controversy it has happened a few times, the worst being where they put “any race except Caucasian” in a casting call for a kids tv host, and “preference given to women etc” on most others. It’s legal in Canada though you’re not supposed to say the quiet parts out loud like the former example.