Yeah, yeah. It's on "CounterPunch.org", but Ross MacKay's "Gaza and the CBC: Public Broadcaster Betrays Its Mandate" is a good summary of the network's disgusting coverage of the Gaza Holocaust.
Public media should provide a corrective to corporate distortions; yet Canada’s public broadcaster, the CBC, has repeatedly failed in this duty. By refusing to deliver accurate, comprehensive, and contextually rich reporting on Israel’s assault, it has denied Canadians the information they need to act on conscience and to pressure their government to help end the savagery. In effect, the CBC has made Canadians complicit in genocide.
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Postmedia Network, controlled by a U.S.-based hedge fund, controls roughly 112 Canadian newspapers, all pushing a uniform pro-Israel editorial line. Its flagship, the National Post, churns out content that reads as though it were ghostwritten by Likud — if not for the simplistic formulations more fitting for a middle-school newsletter. Faced with this bleak media landscape, many Canadians turned to the CBC, expecting a more impartial perspective. What they found was a public broadcaster that mirrored the same misleading narratives and manipulative reporting, offering coverage no more reliable than its corporate counterparts.
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Landmark legal rulings were barely acknowledged: in January 2024, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) found Israel’s actions amounted to a “plausible” genocide; in July, the ICJ declared Israel’s 57-year occupation illegal; in September, the UN General Assembly voted in favor of sanctions, and arrest warrants were issued for Israeli leaders. These decisions, briefly mentioned at the time, vanished from coverage, directly contradicting the CBC’s mission “to learn, understand, and clearly explain the facts to our audience.”
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CBC’s Office of the Ombudsman, under Jack Nagler, received a flood of complaints. Although the network tried to suggest that complaints were evenly split between pro- and anti-Israel voices, the reality is quite different: most of the pro-Israel complaints came not from individuals but from well-funded organizations – chief among them Honest Reporting Canada (HRC), a billionaire-backed lobby closely aligned with the Israeli government.
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Numerous examples illustrate the absurdity. To highlight a few illustrative cases: a complainant argued that a host’s “mhm” response to a guest mentioning Gaza’s siege signaled assent and was therefore biased against Israel. Nagler accepted that it could have “affected the way listeners would interpret the segment” – a conclusion that is not only implausible but that also blatantly ignores the undeniable factual reality of Gaza’s siege. A review of the October 17, 2023 strike on al-Ahli Baptist Hospital found Israel’s denial dubious given its damage-control efforts, including promoting a fabricated video and fake audio recordings.
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Throughout the crisis, the CBC has consistently capitulated to pro-Israel lobby pressure. CBC’s choices have not merely misinformed; they have implicated Canadians in the ongoing genocide. One CBC staff member described the network’s reporting as “the type of coverage that will one day be taught in schools and museums as a factor that contributed to genocide.” This grim judgment reflects a painful truth: the broadcaster has distorted reality, misrepresented victims, and shielded audiences from the ethical urgency of Gaza’s destruction.
WE need to be more fearsome than zionist propaganda outfits such as "Honest Reporting Canada."
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