"TORONTO -- CBC Washington correspondent Neil Macdonald has been named winner of the 2004 DishonestReporting Canada Award by HonestReporting Canada (www.honestreporting.ca), a non-profit organization monitoring Canadas news media for fairness and accuracy in reporting. The award identifies media that HRCs members believe have failed to report fairly or accurately, or to abide by professional codes of conduct, when reporting on Israel and the Middle East.
In 2004 Mr. Macdonald triggered on-air clarifications and an acknowledgement from CBCs Ombudsman that his reporting was open to the perception of bias, said Dov Smith, executive director of HonestReporting Canada. Our members felt he was in a league of his own when it came to winning this dubious award.
** In a May 2004 report on CBCs The National, Macdonald included the comments of Eugene Bird, president of the anti-Israel group Council for the National Interest, who falsely implied that Israeli intelligence agents were involved in the Abu Ghraib prison abuses in Iraq.
** In a December 2004 column on CBCs Web site, Macdonald asserted, If Palestinians have committed terror, the Israelis have certainly committed war crimes. After HonestReporting Canadas members complained, CBCs Ombudsman wrote to HRC in February 2005: I conducted a review of this matter and agreed that the sentence at issue was open to this interpretation of personal opinion or bias.
These and other incidents are documented in an online presentation by HonestReporting Canada. (Read communiqué at www.honestreporting.ca/English/page-1-224-1.html or watch online Flash presentation at www.honestreportingcanada.net/award.htm) "
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/6/prwebxml253983.php
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(Holy Quran-16:125)
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