The Media Accountability Project  

We applaud your Aug 21 segment on the West Bank Nightmare. Your interview with Maysa Hawwash, however horrific, is absolutely the type of information Canadians need to hear! Thank you for your thought interview questions and your heart felt shock at the current conditions Palestinian peoples in the West Bank face daily at the hands of Israeli settlers and the Israeli army.   Continue reading

The podcast was especially poignant for me as I have personal experience of wildfires. I live in the Okanagan valley of British Columbia and wildfires have become as our Premier recently said the ‘new normal’. I have come to appreciate the dangers that firefighters face in doing their work to protect forests and infrastructures. However, unlike Lebanese firefighters, none of the firefighters in the Okanagan have to worry about being targeted by drones. Continue reading

We ask that Burlington Today and the Associated Press apply consistent sourcing treatment to both death tolls, and note the Health Ministry's place within the Hamas-led government only where it bears materially on the story reported. Continue reading

The analysis cut through the controversy by pointing out a simple and practical fact: no museum exhibit can tell the whole story. This particular exhibit tells the story of Palestinian Canadians whose families were profoundly shaped by the Nakba “honestly from their perspective – which was their stated intent.” Continue reading

In the Ombudsman’s view, using the phrase “Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry” is almost always unnecessary, unless a story is specifically related to the relationship between Hamas and its health officials.  Continue reading

"Although your report does a good job of portraying Israel’s short term motivation given the upcoming election, providing some additional background would have helped your viewers understand that Israel’s long term objective is to forcibly and permanently dispossess and cleanse Palestinians from their land and homes not just in Gaza but in the West Bank and East Jerusalem." Continue reading

D'ailleurs, vous rapportez les bombardements israéliens sur des tentes dans le sud et leurs morts civiles, tout en citant la justification de l'armée israélienne quant à la présence d'une menace du Jihad islamique.  Continue reading

"By failing to characterize such remarks as racist, or genocidal, and normalizing them as merely inflammatory, CBC fails to inform its viewers of the calculated seriousness of Israel’s genocide in Palestine, its final solution for the Palestinian population it controls." Continue reading

To sum up, Bimman has provided positive coverage to the very individuals her advocacy organization celebrates and depends on for support. Worse yet, her organization has received notable support from Israel, yet she has not recused herself from covering issues related to it. Continue reading

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