America is coming up on the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
It ended up turning into another example of the media’s Trump Derangement Syndrome.
And the fake news media insulted America by refusing to say two words about 9/11.
CBC Refuses to Call 9/11 a ‘Terror Attack’
The Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC), under the direction of Senior Director of Journalistic Standards and Public Trust Basem Boshra, wants to whitewash what happened when Al Qaeda terrorists murdered 3,000 innocent Americans on the morning of September 11, 2001.
“Do not refer to the Sept. 11 attacks as terrorist attacks,” the memo read.
“The hijackings led to passenger jet crashes in Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania and Manhattan. The World Trade Center was destroyed,” the memo went on to say.
Toronto Sun columnist Wayne Kinsella reached out for comment, and CBC spokeswoman Kerry Kelly replied that “CBC’s longstanding language guidance regarding the terms ‘terrorist’ and ‘terrorism’ is a preference for the use of these words with attribution, a practice shared by many of the world’s top journalistic organizations. Our general manager and editor-in-chief has written publicly in the past on the subject.”
The blog post Kelly referred to was a 2023 piece CBC News editor in chief Brodie Fenlon where he wrote that designating attacks like 9/11 terrorism would bias readers against the terrorists because “terrorism” was a “loaded” word.
“Our focus is to report the facts of such atrocities with accuracy, clarity and detail; to convey the scale and scope of violent acts wherever they occur; to quote the people affected, and to convey the views of officials and experts on these events. We bear witness.
But CBC News does not itself designate specific groups as terrorists, or specific acts as terrorism, regardless of the region or the events, because these words are so loaded with meaning, politics and emotion that they can end up being impediments to our journalism,” Fenlon wrote.
The Media’s Terror Blindspot
Osama bin Laden called the 9/11 attacks “blessed terror,” yet the CBC’s woke sensibilities led them to reject the label that Al Qaeda’s own leader used to describe them.
Fenlon claimed using the word “terrorism” in stories would make it seem like the outlet’s journalists were taking sides against the terrorists even though the 9/11 attacks fit the CBC’s own definition of terrorism.
“Exercise extreme caution before using the words terrorist and terrorism. While the language is not seriously disputed in some cases, it’s less clear, if not highly contested, at other times — which can lead to virtually endless questions about consistency and impartiality in our coverage of various attacks around the world.
Terrorism generally implies attacks against unarmed civilians for political, religious or some other ideological reason. But it’s a highly controversial term that can leave journalists taking sides in a conflict,” Fenlon added.
Media outlets like the CBC are afraid to condemn terrorists because the number one global source of terror is Islam, and woke journalists fear that if they condemn terrorists as terrorists, they are imposing Western standards and “white” values on brown third-worlders.
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