The Media Accountability Project  

Journalistic fairness means that if you are going to point out that Iran’s retaliatory strikes have targeted countries in the Middle East that host U.S. military bases, you should also be pointing out how many countries the U.S. and Israel have bombed and how many world leaders they have murdered or forcibly removed from office in just the last two years. If you want to be fully fair and balanced, your reporting should at least occasionally be looking back over several decades at the master plan that seem to be coming to a head. This also means mentioning the Greater Israel project.   Continue reading

"The article does not align with journalistic standards of balance of perspectives and views. Throughout the article, the overwhelming majority of quoted voices are Iranian-Canadians celebrating the attacks, explicitly pro–U.S. and pro–Israel voices, supporters of regime change, and admirers of Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu. There are no voices from Iranian-Canadians who oppose foreign military intervention, anti-war Iranian diaspora members, international law experts questioning the legality of the strikes, human rights advocates concerned about civilian harm, or scholars contextualizing the consequences of regime change wars." Continue reading

"The headline obscures the most essential fact of this developing story which is that Israel has invaded southern Lebanon, in clear violation of Lebanese sovereignty. A headline that centers Israeli military directives rather than the act of cross-border invasion misleads readers about the nature of the escalation." Continue reading

While you mention physical damage to infrastructure in the neighbouring states as a result of Iranian missiles and that “ the targeting of civilians…” reaffirms their right to respond to the Iranian attacks, there is no mention of the 787 Iranian citizens who have been killed, with well over 100 young girls in the school hit by an Israeli airstrike. Continue reading

Including this information is essential to provide readers with critical context and to avoid reinforcing the longstanding U.S. narrative that Iran is perpetually on the brink of developing nuclear weapons, a claim that has been invoked for decades to manufacture consent for further military aggression. Continue reading

"The article reports that Canada was not involved in any operations and had no advance notification of the U.S. strikes. However, publicly available reporting from CBC News indicates that up to 18 Canadian Forces members were deployed on exchange with U.S. units in Bahrain and Qatar at the time of the strikes. Former senior Canadian general Denis Thompson stated that, absent explicit restrictions from Ottawa, it is highly likely that Canadian officers embedded with U.S. forces would have been involved at some level in planning or coordination." Continue reading

Cette histoire est profondément préoccupante, étant donné que des soldats de l’armée israélienne, complices du génocide et de la famine à Gaza, se sont rendus à plusieurs reprises dans ces écoles et ont parlé à ces enfants. Continue reading

All of this to say, thank you for reporting on Israel’s restrictions affecting Doctors Without Borders’ humanitarian operations in Gaza. Please continue to do so, particularly as mainstream media marginalizes Palestinian perspectives and relegates them to the end of articles. Continue reading

"Both the journalist and CBC deserve thanks for such a compelling human interest story, which leaves the listener informed and inspired." Continue reading

Palestinians’ claims of ownership are rarely approved; many families depend on decades-old Ottoman-era documents or were never permitted to formally register their land in the first place. This is an illegal decision that amounts to de facto annexation under occupation and reflects Israel’s greater escalating annexation, occupation, and apartheid policies in the occupied West Bank. Continue reading