Title: Persona non grata
Description: In February 2013, Tom Flanagan, acclaimed academic, University of Calgary professor, and former advisor to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, made comments surrounding the issue of viewing child pornography that were tweeted from the event he was speaking at and broadcast worldwide. In the time it took to drive from Lethbridge to his home in Calgary, Flanagan's career and reputation were virtually in tatters. Every media outlet made the story front-page news, most of them deriding Flanagan and casting him as a pariah.
Subjects: Social aspects, Liberté d'expression, Aspect social, Médias, Political correctness, Freedom of speech, Mass media, Internet, Politiquement correct (Mouvement), Internet, social aspects, Mass media, social aspects
Places: Canada
People: Thomas Flanagan (1944-)