CBC Bashes Israel, supports radical Palistinians, Once Again
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Posted by David Murrell on 15:27:01 2008/05/08
I wrote the following complaint to the CBC after watching the Peter Armstrong/Nallah Ayed reports one time, on CBC News morning. But after watching in once again this afternoon on CBC Newsworld, the two reports seem even more one-sided. Armstrong spends most of his report emphasizing critics of the 60th celebrations. Nahlah Ayed's entire report is a one-sided diatribe supporting the "right of return". She even walks in the middle of the Palestinian demonstration!
CBC News is an embarrassment (and a tad anti-Semitic to boot).
I encourage readers to view the CBC's two anti-Israel reports. They will be broadcast throught today.
My complaint:
Vince Carlin
CBC Ombudsman
Thursday. May 8, 2008
Dear Mr. Carlin,
Please treat this letter as a complaint. The complaint has to do with a lack of balance in CBC New's reporting. Balance is required as per the CBC News' code of ethics.
On the CBC News Morning show today, the CBC news once again shows its strong anti-Israel bias. The show featured two reports -- one from Peter Armstrong from Jerusalem and one
from Nalla Ayed from the West Bank.
The report from Armstrong featured a report on Israel's 60th anniversary celebrations, yet he emphasized the Israeli prime minister's recent ethical difficulties. This is fair, I think to do this, even though there was no discussion of the meaning of the 60th aniversary and what it means for Israelis.
But Nalla Ayed's report was one-sided propaganda. She actually strode down inside of an anti-Israel (anti-Jewish?) demonstration, and simply repeated the arguments of the
demonstrators, to the point where she herself took the position of the demonstrators. She simply repleated the anti-Israel argument of what the Paletinians -- "The
Catastrophe", "the right of return" -- without once stating any of the context of the 1948 war. (I.e., that various Arabs attacked innocent civilians, and various Arab states attacked the newly-created state of Israel with the intent of destroying it, and so forth).
Suppose the anti-Jewish Palestinians got their way -- and Nalla Ayed got her way -- and the State of Israel would be destroyed. Then we would see (another) ethnic cleansing of
Jews -- much like the thorough ethnic cleansing of Jews in the other 22 Arab countries. There would be pogroms against Jews, and a possible second Jewish genocide.
I realize that Nalla Ayed would not object to this. Her reporting, espcially today's report, is unmitigated bigotry. These are her values, and there is nothing one can do
to change them, however repugnant that they may be. But at least CBC News could at least provide an anti-genocide argument to balance her viscious anti-Jewish rants.
Please pass my letter-of-complaint to Nalla Ayed and CBC Morning.
Sincerely,
David Murrell (PhD)
University of New Brunswick
dmurrell@unb.ca
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