This is one of the single-most alarming interviews we have ever seen CP24 host. It contradicts fundamental journalist standards and ethics repeatedly. A journalist should not let such radical claims go unchallenged, let alone echo her bias with similar assertions. Below are some key points, but there are many more possible angles you are welcome to include.
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Title of Piece: Nick Dixon: “New documentary "October 8" on Hamas attack on Israel”
Media Outlet: CP24 Breakfast
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CP24 Breakfast co-anchor, Nick Dixon, interviewed "October 8" director Wendy Sachs. Originally titled “October H8te,” the film has been widely panned for being “one-sided” and anti-Palestinian.
The film features controversial figures like Michael Rapaport and Noa Tishby. Instead of using the interview as an opportunity to raise questions of critical importance to the public, Dixon instead used the opportunity to praise Sachs and the film.
This is one of the single-most alarming interviews we have ever seen CP24 host. It contradicts fundamental journalist standards and ethics repeatedly. A journalist should not let such radical claims go unchallenged, let alone echo her bias with similar assertions. Below are some key points, but there are many more possible angles you are welcome to include.
- Dixon says the film is a “powerful documentary.” He broadly accuses pro-human rights advocates of “double-standards” and “hypocrisy” for apparently not condemning Hamas enough.
- Dixon talks about children’s rights and women’s rights, but only in reference to Israelis, not Palestinians.
- Sachs mentions her belief that Israel is not an apartheid state, and Dixon does nothing to challenge this claim that directly contradicts numerous findings by human rights organizations and UN experts. Sachs blames Amnesty International for the aftermath of October 7 and allegedly promoting the idea that “Israel had it coming,” but rather than expressing journalistic skepticism, Dixon says “Mhm.”
- The Israeli death count is mentioned, but the Palestinian death count or any of the impact on Gaza is omitted.
- Sachs claims the film is not “political” or “ideological,” despite her highly inflammatory political claims, and Dixon again affirms her, even after she says the film is about “Islamic extremism and jihadism versus democracy.” The film is extremely political, and in a nefarious way, as exposed by this Slate article.
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