by Daniel Greenfield, Front Page Magazine
The cover-up continues.
As bad as things are in the culture wars in America, Europe and Canada will often remind us how much worse things can be. And how much worse they will be unless we get the situation under control.
Here’s the current state of affairs at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Canada’s version of the BBC, and the kind of monster that PBS would turn into if we let leftists build it into the dominant state media giant that they always intended it to be.
This week, I received a memo — presumably confidential — addressed to CBC News staff. It is authored by one Basem Boshra, who is the “Senior Director of Journalistic Standards and Public Trust at CBC News.” In Boshra’s memo, reporters are editors are told this:
“Do not refer to the Sept. 11 attacks as terrorist attacks.”
Boshra states that all in bold letters, italicized, as if to emphasize the point. To make clear it is a directive, not a suggestion.
It goes on. “The hijackings led to passenger jet crashes,” it reads, again in italics. There is no recognition in the CBC memo — none — that “hijacking that leads to passenger jet crashes” is not a protest, or a vote. It is a terrorist act, full stop.
Lots of passive voice language. Things happen. Which is how much of the media now describes a lot of terrorist attacks.
But let’s talk about what few Canadian conservatives want to talk about.