'We, the People, Have Become the Media' feat. Sumayya Tobah

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🗓️ 1 June 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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How does one lose their job for reporting the truth, yet their job description is to report the truth? Now that's a riddle that I can't seem to solve.By now, you may have heard of the open letter that was drafted by journalists urging Canadian newsrooms and editors to provide more nuanced coverage on Palestine and to also include Palestinian voices in regards to the recent attacks that have happened on Gaza, as well as the forced expulsion of the residents of Sheikh Jarrah and the ongoing eth...

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0:00.0	When I joined the CBC, they told me they were like, we see you come from an activist background,
0:25.2	and that might be a little bit of a problem. Like, are you going to be able to control your social media when it comes to hot button topic? And at the time, I remember being like, that's a weird
0:30.4	question. There's nothing that I posted ever that I don't stand by. And at the time, they pulled up
0:35.9	some of my tweets and they said, you tweeted this about President
0:38.4	Trump.
0:39.4	It had something to do with him being Islamophobic.
0:41.2	And I said, okay, but those are accurate.
0:43.1	But to them, that was a concern of bias, you know?
0:46.4	And I was like, no, that was a tweet that affects me and my community.
0:49.9	And if you want to hire me and have access to my communities, you have to allow me to
0:53.8	be authentic to my community.
0:55.7	And I'm not going to stop speaking up for that.
0:57.9	I'm going to push the envelope a little bit.
0:59.8	I'm going to make sure that they know that I'm not going to stop.
1:02.6	This whole week, I actually sent a text to my dad.
1:04.7	I was like, the only reason I haven't been fired yet
1:07.0	is because of the do'a of my parents. But this week, every time I hit send, I was like, is this the thing that's going to get me
1:12.9	fired this week?
1:25.7	How does one lose their job for reporting the truth?
1:27.1	Yet their job description is to report the truth?
1:30.1	Now, that's a riddle I can't seem to solve.
1:32.8	You're listening to Unsween and Unfilter the Podcast, Episode 17 of Season 3.
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