CBC allows reporters to describe 9/11 attacks as terrorism without attribution after backlash
As previously reported by The Jerusalem Post on Thursday, the CBC circulated a memo last week to reporters and editors instructing them not to refer to the attacks as “terrorist attacks.”
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) has revised its editorial guidelines regarding the description of the 9/11 attacks as terrorism, following international backlash. Previously, a memo from Basem Boshra, senior director of journalistic standards, advised reporters against using the terms "terrorist attacks" without attribution, citing a "longstanding practice that favors the use of these terms with attribution in our reporting."
"CBC News has never said what happened on Sept. 11, 2001, was not terrorism,"
Boshra stated in a blog post, clarifying that the original intent was not to minimize the events. However, due to public concern, CBC News will now allow reporters to describe the 9/11 events as terrorism without direct attribution, aiming to "remove what has unfortunately (and unintentionally) become an impediment to clarity and public understanding." This change specifically applies to 9/11; future reporting on other events will still require attribution for the terms "terrorist" and "terrorism."
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