Hot on the heels of yesterday's article entitled: Media Psychoses and a Mental Press comes this report from Honest Reporting Canada that demonstrates either the Mental illness suffered by Media, or the outright lies that they tell. R.P. BenDedek rpbendedek@hotmail.com
CBC Promotes False Barrier Analogy
On November 9, 1989, thousands of East Germans proceeded to the Wall to destroy and cross what was an oppressive concrete barrier in pursuit of new found freedom.
The Berlin Wall was built during the height of the Cold War by the East German authoritarian regime to .. [keep].. the German citizens of East Berlin - who sought only freedom and communication with their German brethren in West Berlin - hemmed in.
In a false and misleading analogy, four separate CBC reports featured on three of its platforms (television, radio, & website), wrongly equated Israel's defensive security barrier (built to keep Palestinian terrorists "out" of the Jewish state), with the Berlin Wall (built to keep the population "in" the Communist state).
Mideast bureau chief Margaret Evans on November 6, .. falsely portrayed Israel's barrier as being majority walled sections, whereas in fact, it's 97% chain link fence.
..the barrier has dramatically reduced infiltrations from the West Bank, saving hundreds, if not thousands of lives.
Israel has publicly proclaimed that the barrier would be dismantled when peace and security are achieved.
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