The Media Accountability Project  

"Instead of pointing out and picking apart every racist, bigoted, and fundamentally twisted thought he’s decided to express, I would just like to ask Kinsella: Do you think about Palestinian children in Gaza?"

"This article presents false balance, pretending that the two sides are at all similar. Israel’s military is one of the most powerful in the world, and certainly the most powerful in the region. There is no symmetry between the power of Israel and Gaza or Lebanon. There is no symmetry in the level of destruction faced in these places."

"There are countless testimonies provided by Palestinians who have been released from Israeli prisons since October 7. Every testimony is horrifying. Cases of physical and psychological torture, starvation, and sexual abuse are endless, yet CBC has chronically underreported these Palestinian accounts of arbitrary arrest and then acute abuse in prisons."

"Such language violates basic journalistic standards but also stands in direct opposition to the recommendations made by leading journalistic organizations specializing in coverage of the Middle East."

"To ensure balanced reporting and avoid double standards in your reporting, I, therefore, recommend explicitly stating that these Palestinians were killed by Israel. This adjustment would maintain accurate reporting and uphold the high standards of journalism expected by The Globe and Mail's readers."

"Please change the words “preparing a strike” to “preparing a ground invasion” and “gathered after escaping violence elsewhere in Gaza” to “forcibly expulsed after seeking shelter from Israel’s incessant and indiscriminate bombing campaign” since they better reflect Israel’s intentions and actions and the reality of Palestinians."

Writing that “Half of Gaza’s 2.3 million people” are “gathered” in Rafah makes it seem like they are reuniting and having a gathering in Rafah because of voluntary choice, which is not true and obfuscates Israel’s responsibility and actions that led to Palestinians going to Rafah. Palestinians are being forcibly displaced to Rafah because Israel has been targeting everyone everywhere and has left no safe zone from its bombardment campaign

On April 16, 2024, CJPME sent a letter to Global News, pushing the media outlet to make changes regarding an article about Canada’s position and Israel’s reaction following Israel’s strike on a World Central Kitchen convoy that killed seven aid workers.

CJPME wrote that the article was misleading by using language that undermines Israel’s actions and responsibility in the situation in Palestine.

CJPME asked Global News to change the words “Israeli citizens” to “Israeli civilians, foreigners, and security forces” as only 695 people of the 1,200 people killed on Oct. 7 were Israeli civilians.

Following our letter, Global News changed the words “Israeli citizens” to “people.”

CJPME also asked to challenge Israeli claims that the strike “was a mistake” and that it “punished the military officials it says were responsible.”

CJPME pointed out that Israel knew exactly what it was doing and that the mistake was the failure to kill an alleged militant and not attack the convoy at all. CJPME also pointed out that a reserve colonel and a major were dismissed from their posts and that three more senior officers were reprimanded. Therefore, the word “punishment” did not feel appropriate in this case at all.

It is disappointing that Global News would not make the changes we asked for and think that we will be satisfied with this bare-minimum change. This only encourages us to be even more persistent in asking for changes from Global News.

"Therefore, there is a notable absence of contextualization when portraying the deaths in Gaza as simply a byproduct of "war" rather than explicitly labeling them as targeted attacks carried out by the Israeli military."

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