Crybaby Kai Can't Take the SunTV 'Heat'

Kai Nagata explains why he quit his cushy gig with CTV. Until just other day, young Kai was an up-and-comer who was the network's Quebec City Bureau Chief. His reasons for resigning? For one thing, the hunky newsman objected to his, er, objectification:

I admit felt a profound discomfort working in an industry that so casually sexualizes its workforce. Every hiring decision is scrutinized using a skewed, unspoken ratio of talent to attractiveness, where attractiveness often compensates for a glaring lack of other qualifications. The insecurity, self doubt, and body-image issues endured by otherwise confident, intelligent journalists would break your heart. And clearly there’s a double standard, a split along gender lines. But in an environment where a lot of top executives are women, what I’m talking about applies to men as well. The idea has taken root that if the people reporting the news look like your family and neighbours, instead of Barbie and Ken, the station will lose viewers.

Also, he objects to the emergence of a "right-wing" voice that's polluting our previously pristinely leftist airwaves:

Jon Stewart talks about a “right-wing narrative of victimization,” and what it has accomplished in Canada is the near-paralysis of progressive voices in broadcasting. In the States, even Fox News anchor Chris Wallace admitted there is an adversarial struggle afoot – that, in his view, networks like NBC have a “liberal” bias and Fox is there to tell “the other side of the story.” Well, Canada now has its Fox News. Krista Erickson, Brian Lilley, and Ezra Levant each do a wonderful send-up of the TV anchor character. The stodgy, neutral, unbiased broadcaster trope is played for jokes before the Sun News team gleefully rips into its targets. But Canada has no Jon Stewart to unravel their ideology and act as a counterweight. Our satirists are toothless and boring, with the notable exception of Jean-René Dufort. And on the more serious side, we have no Keith Olbermann or Rachel Maddow. So I don’t see any true debate within the media world itself, in the sense of a national, public clash of ideas. The Canadian right wing, if you want to call it that, has had five years to get the gloves off. With a majority Conservative government in power, they’re putting on brass knuckles. Meanwhile the left is grasping about in a pair of potholders. The only explanation I can think of is they’re too polite, or too scared. If it’s the latter, I think it’s clear enough why. 

The right has a "narrative of victimization"?!? Is he freaking kidding me? And I suppose "human rights" rackets and their "racialized" victim groups, as well as Canada Boatniks giving their all for their Nakba pets, is a right-wing thing.

I'm glad Kai has decided to take a breather because anyone who thinks there's no "counterweight" to the one-of Sun TV (isn't the entire Canadian MSM, which tacks left, a "counterweight"?), and who believes that what Canucki TV really needs is a Keith Olbermann and a Rachel Maddow (heaven help us!) is flailing, and needs time to get his sh*t together.

Update: "Scary" conservative Ezra Levant (who I'm pretty sure wouldn't mind being objectified a bit) comments on the Mumbai terror attacks.

Update: Take heart, Kai. Maybe Sun TV will hack into emails, and the sanctimonious mainstream jackals can bring it down a la Murdoch's News and Screws.

Update: News and Screws--a perfect name for smug lefty freebie rag NOW magazine, no?