The CBC is a publically funded broadcaster.
By law, it's required to provide balanced and accurate covereage of the news. It doesn't. It has a bias against Israel.
The Toronto Star, the Toronto Sun and the National Post all have their biases, too. This is unfortunate, but they're not breaking any laws and my tax dollars aren't helping them put their own slants on the news.
As for most papers in the Canwest group, I have no idea what kind of coverage they provide, because I don't read them.
You say they're all biased toward Israel. I doubt it. Probably you're mistaking an editorial position for a bias. But that's something completely different. An editorial is meant to give an opinion. Bias is when the news itself is slanted.
If you want unbiased news, read the Globe and Mail.
As for my "bias," I'm a private citizen in a democracy. I not only have a right to a partisan position, but an obligation to stand up for what I believe.
You might say that Neil MacDonald has a right to his partisan views, too. I agree. If he wants to argue in a bar that Israelis and Americans are evil and that terrorists have a right to murder, he can. It just makes him an assh*le.
But when he slants the news toward his bizarre worldview and uses the CBC as his personal soapbox, this is an appalling abuse of his position, and he should be fired.
yours,
cb
Sounds about right to me...
You asked what is a ping list ....
Many residents of this forum find that they are interested in the same topic area and would like to read threads that are posted in that topic area. So many of us share that interest and broadcast that we will keep a list (Using something like notepad ) of Freepers ( Residents of this forum ) and when we become aware of a newly posted item in that topic area we will place the list in the To reply box and post it on the thread. In effect we are "pinging" them that a new item in the interest area has been posted and they have been pinged,.... they become aware of that by clicking on the pings at the top or the bottom of the Freerepublic screens...
Here is a thread with a lot of discussion , ... kinda of funny... but I'll put you into the thread where Farmfriend has been gracious enough to compile names of Freepers keeping ping lists for various topic areas. If you see something that interests you send a note and ask to be placed on their ping list....
Ping List Envy---How big is your Ping List?
The latest is at post #440, by the way.
It's a great way to stay really well informed...
"The CBC is a publically funded broadcaster."
hmmm, yes that is a good point.
"Probably you're mistaking an editorial position for a bias."
Canwest is shamelessly pro-israel, the simple fact that they produced and had the gall to show "Confrontation at Concordia" under the auspice of a documentary is more than enough proof in itself. Granted, like you said, Canwest is private as opposed to the CBC, so this is different.
I am not familiar with MacDonald, but the examples you gave don't seem too bad to me. What is wrong with suggesting terrorism should not apply to people under occupation? Personally I think any act of violence against civilians for political reasons is terrorism. But how on earth are McDonalds comments anti-semitic?
"He goes on to say that “if Palestinians have committed terror, the Israelis have certainly committed war crimes.”"
I think this is a fair statemnt.
Some of your other examples did sound biased though, maybe he is anti-semitic. I just get very suspicious when I hear anyone called anti-semitic. It seems anyone who dares question israel is labelled as anti-semitic.