Idiot of the Year Award is given for lifetime achievement rather than a single piece of work. “Year after year Margaret Wente has been able to maintain the highest standards of ethnic, ideological and gender stereotyping, entrenching idiocy as a respectable part of everyday life in a way that serves power.” He did note, however, that Wente had particularly impressed the judges with a recent column that placed the blame for the current crisis of global capitalism on single mothers who were pursuing graduate degrees in the social sciences rather than throwing themselves at the mercy of the free market to earn a minimal living as prostitutes or garment workers. “It’s hard to be more idiotic than that — and to get away with it in the pages of a mainstream, once-liberal newspaper is really an achievement.”Wente, a fierce critic of reasonable wages and benefits for working Canadians, earns in the range of $250,000 a year from the Globe and Mail for regularly serving up anti-union, racist, misogynist pseudo-thinking pop commentary that helps to legitimize bigotry and elitism in Canada. The Globe prides itself on being one of Canada’s top employers and is known to provide excellent benefits and pensions to senior staff like Wente, a former editor of the paper’s Report on Business (or ROB) where she earned high marks from CEOs as an unusually accommodating sycophant and corporate cheerleader.
Posted on: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 19:05:09 +0000
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