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Tara Henley
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Tara Henley's personal blog at tarahenley.substack.com covers politics and culture. Since 2022, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Speaking Freely: Why I resigned from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Tara Henley's Substack mainly for 'Speaking freely', a piece on CBC's objectivity and quality, and for her interview with Eric Kaufmann. Threads on Canadian media bias cite it.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Speaking Freely: Why I resigned from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-01-03
What Hacker News says?
>I wasn't aware of that. Do you have any example? From my understanding CBC and Radio-Canada are still by far the best and most neutral medias in Canada. An excellent write up by Tara https://tarahenley.substack.com/p/speaking-freely?s=r There's really too many examples. CBC publicly admitted they wont hire caucasians anymore. They have an official, ombudsman confirmed, position that racism against white people is n…
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on “Welcome to 'Le Monde' in English”Submitted Speaking Freely: Why I resigned from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as a story · 376 points
HN discussionI think you're displaying an unconscious bias here by implying the 'top tier of musical talent is virtually identical in ability' and that this somehow excludes various groups from that pool. First, that claim is highly questionable, and second, you are implying that some groups are less talented than others based solely on their identity. This kind of bias is rather common, it's rather redolant of paternalistic att…
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on “Getting hired after fifty”Submitted Nothing works, everyone's mad, society is a pile of kindling waiting for a match as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> I wouldn't call Eric Kauffman a "scientist," and I don't think Kauffman would call himself one either. Back in October, during an interview with Tara Henley, [0] he said "I'm a political scientist..." And, the topic of the interview is how he's leaving the University of London to start up a new "Centre for Heterodox Social Science" at the University of Buckingham. "Political science" is the standard term for Kauff…
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on “Scholars asked Harvard President Claudine Gay for her data. She said no.”> What does woke mean? Here [0] is an interview with the African-American Marxist Adolph L Reed Jr (professor emeritus of political science at the University of Pennsylvania). He starts out saying he can't define "woke" because it is too diffuse, but if you read on he effectively does define it – despite his initial insistence that he can't – in these terms: faced with a society of immense inequality in wealth and p…
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on “Now live for all: Substack Notes”In this case, it makes sense when one is familiar with Canada's news media landscape. Ideologically, CBC has tended to be very far to the left, and over time has become even more extreme. About a year ago, a journalist who'd worked at CBC discussed the situation: https://tarahenley.substack.com/p/speaking-freely In my opinion, CBC consistently puts out some of the lowest-quality and least-objective "news coverage" t…
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on “Untraceable 3D-printed 'ghost guns' on the rise in Canada”While caution is needed with all media, more caution than usual should be used with anything coming out of CBC, especially recently. In January 2022, for example, a long-time former journalist with CBC discussed some objectivity and quality concerns: https://tarahenley.substack.com/p/speaking-freely Among the mainstream news organizations in Canada, CBC is, in my opinion and experience, the least-trustworthy and low…
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on “We caught technicians snooping on our personal devices”