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CBC tells staff not to call 9/11 a 'terrorist attack'
With the 25th anniversary of 9/11 on the horizon, the CBC has circulated a memo to reporters and editors across all its news platforms reminding them not to refer to the attacks that claimed 3,000 lives and changed the modern world as “terrorist attacks.”
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) is facing criticism for its coverage of terrorism. The media house, which combines television, radio and news, has issued an internal memo on how to talk about and write about the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 in New York. CBC News' senior director of journalistic standards and public trust, Basem Boshra, writes in the memo that it was not "terrorism" but "hijackings that led to airliner cras…
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With the 25th anniversary of 9/11 on the horizon, the CBC has circulated a memo to reporters and editors across all its news platforms reminding them not to refer to the attacks that claimed 3,000 lives and changed the modern world as “terrorist attacks.” The missive from the broadcaster’s journalistic standards and practices office, a copy of which was obtained by National Post, includes a section of the “longstanding language guidance” on the …
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