HRC’s Efforts Profiled in National Post: Anti-Israel Bias at CBC Exposed
In the National Post on April 26, Columnist Barbara Kay writes that when pointing to the CBC’s anti-Israel bias, there are plenty of examples. Kay cites HonestReporting Canada (HRC) as being on the front lines in countering the CBC’s bias against Israel, a recent example of which was when HRC successfully prompted the CBC to issue […]
CBC Concedes Reporting Lacked Israeli Point of View
On April 4, several CBC Radio and Television news programs reported on protests and violence that flared up in areas of the West Bank subsequent to the death of a Palestinian prisoner from cancer in an Israeli jail. For example, CBC Radio’s “World Report” news program carried a report by CBC Mideast bureau chief Derek […]
HRC Asks CBSC to Arbitrate Concerns With CTV; Network’s Reluctance to Issue On-Air Correction Unacceptable
HonestReporting Canada has asked the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) to arbitrate our concerns with CTV News due to the network’s reluctance to issue an on-air correction to remedy its erroneously reporting that a Palestinian hunger striker died in an Israeli jail. In the afternoon of February 25, CTV News twice reported the following to […]
Hamilton Spectator Amends Unfair Headline, Deletes Anti-Semitic Comment, Published HRC Letter
A Hamilton Spectator headline to a New York Times article published to its website yesterday has been amended following a complaint by HonestReporting Canada. The headline: “Rocket fired at Israel in response to prisoner’s ‘assassination’” unfairly attributed the death of an incarcerated Palestinian, Arafat Jaradat, in an Israeli jail as an ‘assassination’ based on unfounded […]