CBC bias at work: two papers, same story, VERY different headlines

[Shady]

20 hours ago, herbie said:

Yes I can, I do, and I will. Until you can rationally prove otherwise.
Otherwise I will contend every instance of simply repeating dogma and slogans over and over claiming that makes them true.

Have you looked into the latest whistleblower?  Conservative guests not permitted, nor conservative viewpoints.

[eyeball]

39 minutes ago, Shady said:

You’re arguing for state funded partisan media.

Nope, just pointing out that Canada is a progressive country.

 

40 minutes ago, Shady said:

When did you go full fascist?

About the time you went full scofflaw I guess.

[WestCanMan]

3 hours ago, SpankyMcFarland said:

That they won’t do that speaks volumes. 

Are you really that simple, Spanky? You think that there's just one possible explanation and nothing else?

How about this:

The Israelis know exactly what will happen to "legitimate journalists" who venture into Gaza: they will just become more meat shields that the Israelis have to avoid or hostages that they have to rescue. 

Also, what's a "legitimate journalist from the CBC", Spanky? Or from CNN? Or from NYT?

I wouldn't trust those losers to write about my dog. Would you?

If a 12 yr old muslim girl accuses you of cutting off part of her hijab, do you think that CBC or CNN are gonna give a "McFarland" a fair shake? Do you think that a Liberal PM would miss the opportunity to call you a racist and a religious bigot in that scenario? If you do, then I have a bridge to sell you. 

[CdnFox]

2 hours ago, SpankyMcFarland said:

So journalists from Europe and North America have a cunning plan to get themselves killed? That’s dedication. 

Naaaaw,  i mean NOBODY could possibly be hurt in a war zone.  When was the last time you heard of a death there?  

 

[CdnFox]

2 hours ago, Shady said:

You’re arguing for state funded partisan media.  When did you go full fascist?

Did you JUST meet him or something?

[CdnFox]

1 hour ago, WestCanMan said:

 

The Israelis know exactly what will happen to "legitimate journalists" who venture into Gaza: they will just become more meat shields that the Israelis have to avoid or hostages that they have to rescue. 

 

Exactly. They'll make sure the reporters are constantly around high profile targets or people and then if they get killed (which will be inevitable if israel pursues the war) then they'll scream about the human rights abuse and how israel is killing reporters. 

Honestly it should take 3 seconds for anyone to figure that out

[WestCanMan]

1 hour ago, CdnFox said:

Exactly. They'll make sure the reporters are constantly around high profile targets or people and then if they get killed (which will be inevitable if israel pursues the war) then they'll scream about the human rights abuse and how israel is killing reporters. 

Honestly it should take 3 seconds for anyone to figure that out

And given the hostility towards Israel that's already making waves through the media landscape, just imagine if a popular western journalist is killed, and the original coverage comes from Al Jazeera...

Of course the Gazans can make it look like the Israelis killed him. They just need a couple of guys wearing Israeli uniforms and it's a done deal. 

Is CNN gonna wait for the truth? Search for the truth? Give a shit about the truth? Will they go head-to-head with Al Jazeera to get the truth out while knowing that they're alienating the muslim community?  

The Israelis can't afford to suffer a propaganda bloodbath. The lives of 10M people are at stake.

Left4rds here don't know this, but if Israel loses a war there, all 10M of them will D-I-E and the Arab world will be thrilled about it.  

[Army Guy]

5 hours ago, Aristides said:

Many of them in their homes along with their families or other innocent people. Apparently you believe they were all Hamas operatives. If Israel wants to claim people were Hamas associates they need to provide evidence to back it up, otherwise they can use it as an excuse to do anything. Which they are.

Have i said that, not that i'm aware of, they have a dangerous job in a war zone, what did you think was going to happen....and i'm sure some of them are hamas associates, why is that such a big leap when 9 UNRWA members were fired for the same thing some even took part in the hostage raid...Murphy law applies in a war zone if it can happen it will happen to everyone no one is excluded including journalist...Innocent people have the highest death rate in any war...this one is no different...

[SpankyMcFarland]

The killing of Anas Al-Sharif followed a timeworn pattern. Only after he became a successful reporter on Al Jazeera did the Israelis start sending him death threats, telling him to give up his career on TV. If they had the slightest worry about him as a genuine military target they could have killed him without warning but they didn’t do that. He was killed after he became a media star. The motive could not be more obvious. 

[herbie]

6 hours ago, Shady said:

Have you looked into the latest whistleblower?  Conservative guests not permitted, nor conservative viewpoints.

Oh they wpn't let people spew absolute or unproven bullshit. That's what makes them "left".
Unbiased means let an abdolute piece of shit like Trump or Vance shout lies uncontested.
Listen to CBC radio - their talk shows let people carry on like the Moon is made of cheese.. and the candyass host replies how they made a 'good point'.

[CdnFox]

1 hour ago, SpankyMcFarland said:

The killing of Anas Al-Sharif followed a timeworn pattern. Only after he became a successful reporter on Al Jazeera did the Israelis start sending him death threats, telling him to give up his career on TV. If they had the slightest worry about him as a genuine military target they could have killed him without warning but they didn’t do that. He was killed after he became a media star. The motive could not be more obvious. 

Umm no, no he worked directly for hamas as a propagandist and it seems like they were aware of him then.  They received smuggled documents from Hamas which implicated him, and that's when they started going after him. 

Your fibbery supporting their narrative is more of a timeworn pattern  

[SpankyMcFarland]

Here’s how it’s done.

Quote

A special unit in Israel’s military was tasked with identifying reporters it could smear as undercover Hamas fighters, to target them and to blunt international outrage over the killing of media workers, the Israeli-Palestinian outlet +972 Magazine reports.

The “legitimisation cell” was set up after the 7 October 2023 Hamas attack to gather information that could bolster Israel’s image and shore up diplomatic and military support from key allies, the report said, citing three intelligence sources.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/15/israeli-military-unit-reportedly-tasked-with-linking-journalists-in-gaza-to-hamas

 

Here they are:

https://www.972mag.com

And here’s the author:

https://www.972mag.com/writer/yuval-abraham/

Edited August 15, 2025 by SpankyMcFarland

[SpankyMcFarland]

15 hours ago, CdnFox said:

Umm no, no he worked directly for hamas as a propagandist and it seems like they were aware of him then.  They received smuggled documents from Hamas which implicated him, and that's when they started going after him. 

Your fibbery supporting their narrative is more of a timeworn pattern  

But why not kill him immediately? Why threaten him first? Can you see the problem there? The only thing important to the IDF was his journalism. They wanted to stop that. For reasons blindingly obvious to most people who consider the matter. 

Edited August 15, 2025 by SpankyMcFarland

[SpankyMcFarland]

21 hours ago, CdnFox said:

Exactly. They'll make sure the reporters are constantly around high profile targets or people and then if they get killed (which will be inevitable if israel pursues the war) then they'll scream about the human rights abuse and how israel is killing reporters. 

Honestly it should take 3 seconds for anyone to figure that out

So the IDF won’t let foreign journalists into Gaza ONLY because it SO concerned about their welfare? Is this what you really believe? 

I think my work is done here. The horses have been led to water. 

[Legato]

9 minutes ago, SpankyMcFarland said:

So the IDF won’t let foreign journalists into Gaza ONLY because it SO concerned about their welfare? Is this what you really believe? 

I think my work is done here. The horses have been led to water. 

Not really your pond dried up.

[SpankyMcFarland]

In more darkly comical news, Microsoft promises to find out what Microsoft is up to with Palestinian phone calls:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/15/microsoft-launches-inquiry-claims-israel-used-tech-mass-surveillance-palestinians

 

 

 

 

[CdnFox]

3 hours ago, SpankyMcFarland said:

So the IDF won’t let foreign journalists into Gaza ONLY because it SO concerned about their welfare? Is this what you really believe? 

 

No, that's not what I believe. It's also not what I said. Which makes me think you know I'm right and can't argue with my original point and are therefore trying to create one you feel you have a better chance against  

The journalists can easily be weaponized and become meat shields. I doubt the IDF would give a flying frig about the Health and Welfare of those journalists, but their deaths would become major political points to be used against them.

So either they stopped targeting areas where the journalists might be which is a huge disadvantage or they risk killing them in an attack and facing world condemnation over it.

I mean people like you are condemning them from killing a journalist Who was actually a terror cell leader and worked for hamas until recently, can you imagine the Uproar if they were to accidentally smoke someone from the BBC or CNN?

I'm sure there's a lot of reporters worldwide they'd like to kill, I doubt it's their Health and Welfare they're worried about. But the political blowback would be huge

If you're trying to pretend that's not true, Then it's more like your proof that you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it think  

 

[CdnFox]

4 hours ago, SpankyMcFarland said:

But why not kill him immediately? Why threaten him first?

Presumably because they couldn't.

The only problem I see here is you're trying to make fake facts up that don't match the circumstances and you're coming up with these bizarre little twisted columbo-esque arguments that don't really seem to hold any water.

Once they found out they identified him and announced that he was a target. Probably a pretty low priority one. When an opportunity presented itself they took him out. Which is pretty much what they do with all of the identified leadership that they can

The guy admitted working for Hamas, they have paperwork indicating that he was a bad guy, there's no particular reason to find it to be false, they could have easily killed him and called it an accident but they didn't, you have to want to see the conspiracy theory here for there to be one. Everything they've done can be explained very easily and convincingly I'm having to involve the idea that the IDF is going to go targeting one particular reporter as if there won't be any other reporters afterwards.

And I noticed that you couldn't address any of the points I'd raised. Like not one of them. Like I said that's pretty compelling proof that you know I'm right and you just don't like it