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A Letter to CBC: Your Biased Coverage of the Land Day Massacre
The following letter was sent yesterday to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation regarding their biased coverage of the Land Day massacre
Kawas, Hanna http://www.palestinechronicle.com/letter-cbc-biased-coverage-land-day-massacre/
Publisher: The Palestinian Chronicle
Date Written: 06/04/2018
Year Published: 2018
Resource Type: Article
Chairperson of the Canada Palestine Association, Hanna Kawas, presents a letter to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, alleging editorial interference by pro-Israel lobbying group 'Honest Reporting Canada' in their coverage of the land day killings of unarmed civilians by Israeli government forces.
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The following letter was sent yesterday to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) regarding their biased coverage of the Land Day massacre. This is just one example of the unbalanced reporting by the North American mainstream media on the Palestinian narrative. The letter will be hand delivered today, on April 6 during a solidarity vigil for Palestine at the Vancouver offices of CBC, Canada's national public broadcaster.
Dear CBC
Re: Your coverage of the Land Day massacre in Gaza
You state that you "are independent of all lobbies and of all political and economic influence." This might be true regarding the government that pays for your operations and wages but we regret to say it is definitely NOT true with the pro-Israeli lobby. Once again you were influenced by their lobbying and succumbed to their dictates, propaganda and falsehoods, even in regards to the use of specific language.
Let us start with how the CBC has tried to obscure Israel's premeditated killing of unarmed protesters by instead talking about "clashes" and "confrontations" and "rock throwing". The lack of accuracy in your CBC News March 30, 2018 report is but one example. The narrator says:
"Israeli forces responded with force against rock throwing Palestinian protesters, at least seven Palestinians have been killed, hundreds more has been wounded."
And then your correspondent Derek Stoffel reported:
"some of those men were throwing stones and Molotov cocktail at the Israeli forces on the other side and they responded with tear gas with rubber bullets and in some cases with live ammunition…".
(Notice the downplaying of the use of live ammunition, which contradicts hospital reports of the wounded).
Also, your web article on March 30 from the AP ran with the subtitle:- "’Right of return' mass sit-in organized by Hamas escalated into rock-slinging, tear gas firing" as if rocks and tear gas are more deadly than live ammunition!
You would think that all this "rioting" "violence" and the "throwing of stones and Molotov cocktails" that you emphasized would have left some Israeli casualties as well, but no, we did not hear from your reporter or any other reporter about Israeli causalities because there were none.
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