Christmas in the Holy Land: A Year-End Bias Study (December 27 2007)
Christmas in the Holy Land: A Year-End Bias Study December 27, 2007 By: Mike Fegelman Dear HonestReporting Canada subscriber: Every Christmas, journalists descend on Bethlehem, speak with the mayor, conduct person-in-the-street interviews with pilgrims, and report on tourist activities and religious festivities. Many of the resulting news reports falsely implicate Israel for the economic, […]
CBC's Terror Double Standard (December 13 2007)
CBC’s Terror Double Standard December 12, 2007 By: Mike Fegelman Dear HonestReporting Canada subscriber: Since our inception, we have called on the Canadian media to describe individuals whose intentional use of violence against civilians, done in order to achieve religious, political or ideological objectives, as terrorists. Instead, these individuals and their actions are labeled in […]
HRC Commends CBC For Providing Context (November 27 2007)
HRC Commends CBC For Providing Context November 27, 2007 By: Mike Fegelman Dear HonestReporting Canada subscriber: HonestReporting Canada, a non-profit, grass-roots media monitoring group headquartered in Toronto, commends the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for correcting its initial failure to provide context when featuring reports that ignored the terror backgrounds of Palestinian prisoners. On October 23, […]
CBC Whitewashes Palestinian Prisoners (October 29 2007)
CBC Whitewashes Palestinian Prisoners October 29, 2007 By: Mike Fegelman Dear HonestReporting Canada subscriber: When news organizations borrow and feature reports from other media outlets, they are responsible to vet that content to ensure that it is editorially fit for broadcast, fair and balanced, and void of erroneous information. The October 24 broadcast of […]
HRC: Behind The Scenes (October 17 2007)
HRC: Behind The Scenes October 17, 2007 By: Mike Fegelman Dear HonestReporting Canada subscriber: Since our inception in 2003 as a non-profit organization headquartered in Toronto, HonestReporting Canada (HRC) has been subjecting Canadian news reporting to rigorous and methodical investigations in order to prevent distorted news coverage against Israel. From a modest membership of […]
Concordia Paper Charges Murder Without Proof (September 26 2007)
Concordia Paper Charges Murder Without Proof By: Mike Fegelman September 26, 2007 Dear HonestReporting Canada subscriber: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to Columbia University this week was a stark reminder that anti-Israel propaganda is alive and well on North America’s university campuses. This month marks five years since violent pro-Palestinian activists stormed Montreal’s Concordia […]