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Ombudsman: Radio-Canada Erred on Airing Anti-Israel Documentary

[Canadian Jewish News] Janice Arnold - Radio-Canada's ombudsman says the network should not have broadcast a U.S.-made documentary that tries to make the case that the American media's coverage of the Middle East is biased in favor of Israel. Julie Miville-Dechene says the five-year-old film "Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land: U.S. Media and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict" "contains anachronisms and inaccuracies, and militant pro-Palestinian groups were involved in researching" it. "The fact that this documentary is biased toward the Palestinian cause is not the issue here. Radio-Canada has the right to broadcast point-of-view films, as long as they are clearly identified as such," she says in a report issued Dec. 8. "This pro-Palestinian documentary presents one point of view, one side of the coin," she said.
2008-12-19 06:00:00
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