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----- Original Message -----
From: Engr. Meer Sahib
Cc: Jonathan Whitten, CBC ; CBC
Input ; Robert Rabinovitc, CBC ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2005 8:50 AM
Subject: HOW DOES CBC TV DETERMINE WHO IS A TERRORIST? CBC TV
Dear Andrew and Suhana
In today's morning report about elections
in Iraq, an NBC reporter Michelle Caruso Cabrera, while reporting from
Iraq, was referring to the Iraqis resisting US occupation as "terrorists".
Suhana did not make any effort to ask her to refrain from using such terminology
and to just report facts and not her own opinion.
As far as we know even from some US media
sources, there is a popular uprising in Iraq against an occupying army, and the
Iraqi people do not want to hold an election under occupation, which would
only legitimize choosing of despots willing to take orders from the USA. So, how
do you brand them as "terrorists"? The US and British forces are
terrorizing the Iraqi people. Why don't you ever refer to them as the 'real'
terrorists?
As far as kidnappings and bombings are
concerned, there are reports from the Arab and some US and even Israeli media
(such as Haartz) that there are numerous MOSSAD and CIA agents in
Iraq, staging numerous psy-ops and bombings to create Sunni-Shii civil war
(it is easier to rule when they are divided). So, how do you blindly label
someone 'terrorist' without knowing the facts?
I always thought that the CBC had a Code of
Ethics not to brand parties of a conflict with judgemental terms such as
'terrorists' etc. Wasn't it the very reason why Neil McDonald was transferred
out as the Mid-East correspondent because he refused to be bullied into using
such derogatory terms towards Palestinian fighters, by the pro-Israeli
Jewish organizations in Canada?
The entire world knows that FOXX news, CNBC etc.
are snake pits of anti-Arab anti-Muslim venom. How then do you then allow
a (former) CNBC reporter to violate your own Code of Ethics?
Meer Sahib
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