Getting the news in Canada: Canwest...stauch supporter of Israel and anti-free speech
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Israel "Izzy" Asper: Hey suckers...I own what you think, and we're proudly the most pro Israel biased news source we can possibly manufacture ,or my first name isn't Israel....I promise.
http://seriouslyfreespeech.wordpress.com/parody/
The parody:
http://www.straight.com/files/pdf/newsparody.pdf
"Canwest: Media Bully
VANCOUVER- In a direct attack on freedom of expression, Canwest has launched an unprecedented civil lawsuit against local activists. They are being sued for “conspiring” to produce and distribute a four-page parody of the Vancouver Sun which satirised Canwest’s biased coverage of Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian territories.
Canwest is the largest media corporation in Canada. In 2003, Canwest’s founder, Izzy Asper, boasted “In all of our newspapers… we have a very pro-Israeli position…” A 2008 editorial in Canwest’s flagship National Post declared that “Israel is blameless” for the killing of Palestinian children by Israeli army shelling and referred to the “Palestinian people as one collective suicide bomber”.
Instead of respecting Canadian’s right to free speech, Canwest is abusing the courts to try to silence criticism of its editorial position. It’s a classic SLAPP suit (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation), an attempt to bully and intimidate critics by forcing them to pay huge legal costs to defend against a politically motivated lawsuit.
The Seriously Free Speech Committee was formed to resist this bullying – demanding that Canwest drop their lawsuit and supporting an open debate on Israel and Palestine.
In response to our international campaign, Canwest recently dropped their legal action against Mordecai Briemberg who distributed but did not produce the parody. Calling it a “significant victory,” Mordecai said Canwest’s strategy has backfired. “Instead of silencing our voices, it amplified them.” The Seriously Free Speech campaign will continue until Canwest also abandons their suit against Gordon Murray and Carel Moiseiwitsch.
Canwest’s misuse of the courts to attack free speech highlights the need for anti-SLAPP legislation to ensure a free public debate on contentious issues. Please join concerned citizens around the world in supporting the Seriously Free Speech campaign.
As the Supreme Court of Canada said in its June 2008 unanimous decision about freedom of expression, “the law must accommodate commentators such as the satirist or the cartoonist who… exercise a democratic right to poke fun at those who huff and puff in the public arena.”
http://seriouslyfreespeech.wordpress.com/parody/
The parody:
http://www.straight.com/files/pdf/newsparody.pdf
"Canwest: Media Bully
VANCOUVER- In a direct attack on freedom of expression, Canwest has launched an unprecedented civil lawsuit against local activists. They are being sued for “conspiring” to produce and distribute a four-page parody of the Vancouver Sun which satirised Canwest’s biased coverage of Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian territories.
Canwest is the largest media corporation in Canada. In 2003, Canwest’s founder, Izzy Asper, boasted “In all of our newspapers… we have a very pro-Israeli position…” A 2008 editorial in Canwest’s flagship National Post declared that “Israel is blameless” for the killing of Palestinian children by Israeli army shelling and referred to the “Palestinian people as one collective suicide bomber”.
Instead of respecting Canadian’s right to free speech, Canwest is abusing the courts to try to silence criticism of its editorial position. It’s a classic SLAPP suit (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation), an attempt to bully and intimidate critics by forcing them to pay huge legal costs to defend against a politically motivated lawsuit.
The Seriously Free Speech Committee was formed to resist this bullying – demanding that Canwest drop their lawsuit and supporting an open debate on Israel and Palestine.
In response to our international campaign, Canwest recently dropped their legal action against Mordecai Briemberg who distributed but did not produce the parody. Calling it a “significant victory,” Mordecai said Canwest’s strategy has backfired. “Instead of silencing our voices, it amplified them.” The Seriously Free Speech campaign will continue until Canwest also abandons their suit against Gordon Murray and Carel Moiseiwitsch.
Canwest’s misuse of the courts to attack free speech highlights the need for anti-SLAPP legislation to ensure a free public debate on contentious issues. Please join concerned citizens around the world in supporting the Seriously Free Speech campaign.
As the Supreme Court of Canada said in its June 2008 unanimous decision about freedom of expression, “the law must accommodate commentators such as the satirist or the cartoonist who… exercise a democratic right to poke fun at those who huff and puff in the public arena.”
Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
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and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
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One morning, we could not reach a nearby village to help pick olives because the road was blocked by Israeli military vehicles attacking al-Ein refugee camp. We witnessed Israeli soldiers abducting two Palestinian medical volunteers and holding them hostage in their armored vehicle. The Israeli invasion killed a young Palestinian man that morning, and their tanks wantonly destroyed vehicles and buildings in the densely populated and impoverished refugee camp.
When we returned home to Vancouver, we were appalled by CanWest's one-sided coverage of the situation we had just witnessed in the OPT. In CanWest publications, Israelis are almost always portrayed as innocent victims and Palestinians as inhuman terrorists. We saw no reflection of our experiences with the Palestinian families who shared their lunch with us in the shade of gnarled olive trees, nor of the violent gangs of Israeli settler youth who stoned and kicked international volunteers and Palestinian farmers while Israeli soldiers stood by.
A study released in 2006 by Toronto's Near East Cultural and Educational Foundation quantified the shocking bias of CanWest news. It determined that during 2004, CanWest's flagship National Post was 89 times more likely to report an Israeli child's death than that of a Palestinian child in its news articles' headlines or first paragraphs.
In other words, the CanWest "news coverage" made it appear that Israeli kids were killed at a rate almost four times higher than Palestinian children during 2004 when, in fact, 22 Palestinian children were killed for every Israeli child that year, according to the Israeli human rights group B'Tselem. As a 3 March 2008 Post editorial noted, "in any war, it is the child casualties that attract the greatest sympathy and anguish."
In Vancouver, CanWest dominates the news market through ownership of The Vancouver Sun, The Province, The National Post, and 12 community newspapers, as well as Global TV. Media researcher Marc Edge has called Vancouver the most concentrated metropolitan media market in any G8 country. With so few alternative news sources, we concluded that a newspaper parody would be the best method to point out CanWest's extreme bias."
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg
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