"CRTC Continues Investigation Into CBC Over Slanted #GamerGate Coverage" - William Usher https://twitter.com/LunarArchivist/status/606999875927068672 http://blogjob.com/oneangrygamer/2015/06/crtc-continues-investigation-into-cbc-over-slanted-gamergate-coverage/ I was actually going to post an update this evening, but Usher beat me to it. :) For those of you who're just joining us, are out of the loop, or otherwise missed it, back on February 25, 2015, Rachel Giese interviewed Brianna Wu on Q (the CBC Radio One show formerly hosted by Jian Ghomeshi) and used an audio clip from the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - where gamers were portrayed as kidnappers, terrorists, and rapists - to frame a debate about the harassment of women in the video game industry and GamerGate. http://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/2x4gt2/holy_fuck_cbc_gamergates_an_online_movement_that/ Yes, that's right people: the CBC used a highly fictionalized version of events to introduce listeners to the real-life issue it was extremely loosely based on. :O Needless to say, this didn't sit well with a lot of GamerGate and NotYourShield supporters, many of whom immediately filed complaints with the CRTC. Personally speaking, I submitted my own complaint around a week and a half later on March 9, 2015 because it took me that log to assemble evidence and write a massive wall of text poking holes in the entire story. The CRTC forwarded our complaints to the CBC ombudsman, Esther Enkin, who passed them along to Jamie Purdon , the Interim Producer of Q and stated that he had "the right and the responsibility to respond [...] within twenty working days". Yesterday was Day 60 for me. And that figure is closer to 70 for people who filed their cases with the CRTC the same day as the original broadcast. The bottleneck in the complaint process is Jamie Purdon, who, as far as I'm aware, has yet to respond to anyone who's filed a complaint about this matter. And until such time as he makes an official response, both the ombudsman's as well as the CRTC's hands are tied. No explanation for this radio silence has been forthcoming, though one possible one is that this is simply a delay tactic: they're deliberately stonewalling us and hoping we either give up or forget about it. Yeah right. :P So what can we do? Well, I suggest that all the GamerGate and NotYourShield supporters who took the time to file complaints start rattling the proverbial cage by sending messages to the CRTC politely informing them about the CBC's failure to address your concerns and short e-mails to the CBC ombudsman gently reminding her that you're waiting for a long overdue response from Mr. Purdon. Be sure to be diplomatic here, especially since the CRTC is our best ally in this case and the longer the CBC drags this out, the worse it makes them look.  In my particular case, the CRTC has decided to merge my file from this case with another one I filed earlier this week concerning the May 8, 2015 broadcast of On the Coast, where, during an interview with GTFO director Shannon Sun-Higginson, host Stephen Quinn made statements such as as "GamerGate was the full extent of the misogyny" and "(GamerGate) was, of course, when anonymous players threatened to rape and murder female game developers": http://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/35cfo2/cbc_is_at_it_again/ The shenanigans with the CBC don't end there, though, because gamers (though not GamerGate specifically) were attacked again in a Neil MacDonald report on social media shaming tactics where Brianna Wu was prominently featured yet again: http://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/368x35/grats_on_35k_get_shitlords_to_remind_you_theres_a/ http://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/35viz4/cbc_social_media_shaming_featuring_brianna_wu/ In better news, Redditor /u/Mug33k achieved a partial victory with the French Canadian version of the CBC, Radio-Canada, after filing a complaint with their ombudsman. So at least someone's making progress. :) http://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/35f6oq/ethics_radiocanada_ombudsman_french_cbc_new/ Copies of my correspondence e-mails with the CBC ombudsman can be in the following tweet and in the /gamergatehq/ equivalent of this thread on 8chan: https://twitter.com/LunarArchivist/status/606999875927068672 https://8ch.net/gamergatehq/res/189673.html