Maybe it's just me, but the fact that Gomeshi's covering the CBC's legal costs seems to suggest he's trying to hit UNSEND, UNSEND!, and the CBC is whacking his tuckus on the way out the door.
Or one his lawyers finally got through to him that he was likely to end up paying their costs no matter what, so he should quit while they were still small.
That would be my theory as well. I wonder what his employment contract looked like? Or if he was an at-will employee, although I understand such are rare among "talent" in the entertainment industry.
He was unionized as of his dismissal. Back when he was doing the 50 Tracks gig on Radio One, that may not have been the case.
(Sidebar the First: Was that airing around 2005? Thinking back to the Lockout of that year, and the song he did to rally the CMG troops, "I'm Joining Shelagh's Caravan". Hence my musing about the union affiliation, seeing as his lack of such came up in the song's lyrics.)
(Sidebar the Second: I just looked up the song title. It's still up on Soundcloud. You may or may not want to listen. For myself, it was on my playlist from 2005 until the Bad News started breaking.)
Dawkins is having the usual old-and-eminent-but-wrong problem; exemplary career, but you don't die soon enough to avoid realizing you're going to be a footnote despite your strong early contributions to your field and your really high citation index, because it turns out you didn't get it right.
This is really common; it's rare and involves a lot of luck to be someone whose contribution goes on to be foundational to science. It's unfortunate that the common response to it seems to involve becoming deeply obnoxious.
Mary Jane West-Eberhard's "Developmental Plasticity and Evolution" presents a view more likely to be correct than Dawkins' "selfish gene" model, in large part because genes aren't simple on-off switches, Fra Mendel's peas notwithstanding. It's somewhat handicapped by being more complex, and much chewier prose; Dawkins is a brilliant essayist. So Dawkins is still ahead in the popular press, but the professional side of things, he almost can't avoid knowing he didn't get it right.
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(Sidebar the First: Was that airing around 2005? Thinking back to the Lockout of that year, and the song he did to rally the CMG troops, "I'm Joining Shelagh's Caravan". Hence my musing about the union affiliation, seeing as his lack of such came up in the song's lyrics.)
(Sidebar the Second: I just looked up the song title. It's still up on Soundcloud. You may or may not want to listen. For myself, it was on my playlist from 2005 until the Bad News started breaking.)
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Has he since become ionized?
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Well, not further without resort to extravagant means; becoming a genocidal tyrant, say.
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*thinks of Richard Dawkins*
*regretfully shakes head*
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This is really common; it's rare and involves a lot of luck to be someone whose contribution goes on to be foundational to science. It's unfortunate that the common response to it seems to involve becoming deeply obnoxious.
Mary Jane West-Eberhard's "Developmental Plasticity and Evolution" presents a view more likely to be correct than Dawkins' "selfish gene" model, in large part because genes aren't simple on-off switches, Fra Mendel's peas notwithstanding. It's somewhat handicapped by being more complex, and much chewier prose; Dawkins is a brilliant essayist. So Dawkins is still ahead in the popular press, but the professional side of things, he almost can't avoid knowing he didn't get it right.
This appears to rot his socks really hard.
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I suspect this was not a surprise to Mr. Gomeshi.
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Oh my.
(And according to court reporter John Lancaster, the Canadian court system couldn't get this guy out of the building any faster, either.)