[news] News Empire Reveals its Prejudices

[Resist!ca]

The CanWest newspaper chain got international exposure this week. The New York Times, probably the world's most prestigious newspaper, wrote about CanWest's editorial policies....The story started when the Ottawa Citizen revised an Associated Press story from Iraq. AP reporter Hamza Hendawi wrote, "U.S. jets pounded targets in Fallujah" without "weakening the Sunni militants who have steadily expanded their control of the city." The Citizen changed that to, "U.S. jets pounded terrorist positions [without] weakening the Sunni terrorists." The change was deliberate.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/27/133745/158