CBC Agreed To Follow Israeli Censorship Order On Gaza Aid Drop Flight
CBC Agreed To Follow Israeli Censorship Order On Gaza Aid Drop Flight
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CBC Agreed To Follow Israeli Censorship Order On Gaza Aid Drop Flight
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Israel has shown itself perfectly willing to murder journalists from any country for any reason they deem fit. I think CBC did properly enough to the extent that the Canadian government can offer protection.
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On the one hand... this is obviously to prevent the world from seeing how Israel has carpet bombed civilian neighborhoods. Footage I imagine is censored amongst the Israeli populace.
On the other, Israel has demonstrated they will murder anyone who threatens to expose them. If the Canadian government isn't going to push back on what is effectively a veiled threat... well it's is not my place to demand those journalists risk/sacrifice their lives beyond their own volition.
I do think CBC needs to have a public transparency division. The catch-22 of a government funded broadcasting entity is of course bias and corruption. As such the CBC should be tasked to maintain an open door relationship with Canadians concerning funding, coverage, and other issues of importance.
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I really respect what you're saying in this thread.
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The thing is the ITV broadcasters just ignored that order and took footage anyways.
IMO the decision to listen to the genocidal fascists was made because there are people in the CBC that support israels genocide.
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That's a nothingburger of a statement. Clearly the Palestinian genocide persists because support for it has infected institutions all over the world. Calling the CBC complicit is a correlation>causation fallacy and just plain ridiculous. CBC is not the ones bombing and sniping innocent Palestinians.
Also it's survivorship bias to allege that because ITV did it no problem, the CBC was in the wrong for adhering the direct instructions of an airbase commander; who could personally have had them shot down.
End of the day it's not your life to risk. That decision belongs to the journalists in the plane and their direct supervisor responsible for their safety.
Conflating self preservation to complacency in genocide is ludicrous. Especially when that accusation is leveled towards the individuals risking their lives to expose said genocide.
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I watched that segment. I remember them saying very clearly that Israel didn't allow them to film it. So you know what they did? They showed footage from the ground, and didn't mince words as to how horrific things were. They showed the landscape, where barely anything is standing. They showed people digging through the ground looking for spilled kernels. There was absolutely no way you could watch that report and not understand the insanity of what is going on there.
In fact, anyone who follows CBC's news coverage has no reason to not understand the depths of the horrors happening in Gaza, or in Palestine in general. They don't shove it into the corner. They place it center stage. Again, and again, and again. As if to say, "don't forget what is happening here".
The CBC definitely has its faults, but this article is blowing things way, way out of proportion.
I agree. I watch CBC Vancouver News everyday and even for a local edition they are dedicating time to point out the relevant facts. Yesterday they had a segment on the hugely high fatality rates of journalists and interviewees didn't pull any punches, explicitly stating that Israel's behavior is intent on getting rid of the witnesses of a massacre. They compared the death of journalists to other wars to show this is not "normal" or just "accidents". Dare I say it was a pretty decent and damning report.
Yup, I saw that one as well after I left this comment. It showed really well not only that this is the largest number of journalists killed in such a conflict, but by really, really far. And did it in a way that shocked even me.