{"id":2651949,"date":"2026-08-30T12:21:58","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T16:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cbc-caves-to-common-sense-after-pushing-orwellian-doublespeak-on-9-11-refusing-to-call-it-a-terrorist-attack\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T12:24:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T16:24:31","slug":"cbc-caves-to-common-sense-after-pushing-orwellian-doublespeak-on-9-11-refusing-to-call-it-a-terrorist-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cbc-caves-to-common-sense-after-pushing-orwellian-doublespeak-on-9-11-refusing-to-call-it-a-terrorist-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"CBC Caves to Common Sense After Pushing \u2018Orwellian Doublespeak&#8217; on 9\/11, Refusing to Call it a Terrorist Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcbc-caves-to-common-sense-after-pushing-orwellian-doublespeak-on-9-11-refusing-to-call-it-a-terrorist-attack%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2651949&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/this-is-what-happened-the-last-time-israel-invaded-lebanon-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"This is what happened the last time Israel invaded Lebanon ... Washington Examiner\">provided content discusses<\/a> a controversy surrounding the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and its handling of the terminology used to describe the September 11 attacks. CBC is accused of instructing its reporters not to call the events &#8220;terrorist attacks&#8221; and instead use less precise language, such as &#8220;hijackings&#8221; and &#8220;passenger jet crashes.&#8221; This policy has sparked widespread criticism, with critics arguing that it distorts historical facts and dishonors the victims, first responders, and their families. Public figures and media commentators have denounced this approach as Orwellian, misleading, and disrespectful to the truth. The outrage emphasizes that calling 9\/11 what it was-a terrorist attack-is crucial for historical accuracy and respect for those affected,and critics assert that CBC&#8217;s stance undermines journalistic integrity and the gravity of the events.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>After being pummeled for warning its reporters not to use the T-word in relation to 9\/11, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has agreed that perhaps it can bend in this instance and call terrorism by its real name.<\/p>\n<p>Basem Boshra, senior director of journalistic standards and public trust at CBC, frumped that the poor, picked-on, misunderstood broadcaster would violate its rules because a \u201cleaked excerpt\u201d of a memo demanding reporters not call 9\/11 terrorism was making life just way too uncomfortable, as it was called a variety of unpleasant names, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/US\/wireStory\/after-criticism-canadas-cbc-policy-label-911-attacks-136048008\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ABC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are doing so to remove what has unfortunately (and unintentionally) become an impediment to clarity and public understanding,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>There was perfect clarity in the storm of outrage the memo generated.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Any agency in Canada that doesn\u2019t publicly reject this bastardization of history, and an insult to the souls lost during our largest terrorist attack in US history will no longer have friend in this FBI\u2026 Not to mention our heroes that responded in the aftermath \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8<\/p>\n<p>WE WILL NEVER\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FBIDirectorKash\/status\/2093133660245356995?\">August 28, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo call 9\/11 anything other than a terrorist attack is an appalling distortion of history,\u201d Pierre Poilievre, leader of Canada\u2019s Conservative Party, said, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/6058676-canada-cbc-9-11-terrorism-guidance-backlash\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Hill<\/a>. \u201cIt dishonors the victims and their families, the survivors, and the first responders who suffered from the horrors of that day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CBC began to take heat after, writing in the <a href=\"https:\/\/torontosun.com\/opinion\/columnists\/september-11-cbc-terrorist-attack-memo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Toronto Sun<\/a>, Warren Kinsella blew the whistle on a CBC edict that said, \u201cDo not refer to the Sept. 11 attacks as terrorist attacks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Preferred language, Kinsella wrote, would say, \u201cThe hijackings led to passenger jet crashes.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Yesterday we reminded Canadians that <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CBCNews?\">@CBCNews<\/a> refuses to call Hamas a terrorist organization. Today, reports of a leaked memo reveals they are now instructing staff not to call 9\/11 a \u201cterrorist attack.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sanitizing the most infamous acts of terror in modern history as mere\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xihbUdKtqF\">pic.twitter.com\/xihbUdKtqF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CIJA (@CIJAinfo) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CIJAinfo\/status\/2092737819907121595?\">August 26, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not fair and it is in no way accurate. It is rewriting the historical record. It is manipulating facts to fit an ideological perspective. It is cruel and despicable. It is Orwellian,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Confronted by CBC\u2019s justification that many news organizations have found less confrontational words to describe terrorism, Kinsella was highly skeptical.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we all like to remind our children, however, just because someone else does it doesn\u2019t mean it is right. And \u2014 in particular \u2014 a lie is always a lie. A falsehood is a falsehood. We tell our kids that, too,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Truth matters in a free society. Sanitizing September 11 dishonors the nearly 3,000 people who were murdered, the first responders who ran toward danger and every family that still carries the pain of that day. No institution should be afraid to tell the truth.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 George E. Pataki (@GovernorPataki) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GovernorPataki\/status\/2093471766576288075?\">August 28, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, which all of us gave $1.57 billion in 2025-26, operates under different rules. It tells us lies about history and reality. And the historical reality is that thousands of innocents were murdered 25 years ago, by terrorists,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all know that, we all call it that. At CBC, they don\u2019t care. They do and say whatever the hell they want to,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>In an opinion piece in the <a href=\"https:\/\/thehub.ca\/2026\/08\/28\/the-cbc-wont-call-9-11-a-terrorist-attack-and-your-tax-dollars-are-paying-for-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hub<\/a>, Steven Staley called the memo \u201cOrwellian doublespeak in its purest form, issued by a man whose salary every Canadian taxpayer is compelled to pay and whom none of them can fire.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Canada\u2019s state-funded CBC embarrassed the country so badly that its Public Safety Minister and <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >intelligence agency issued statements calling 9\/11 \u201cterrorist attacks<\/a>.\u201d PM Carney should order a review of whether CBC applies its policy impartially\u2014or to sanitize Islamist terror. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KOWtN2knQa\">https:\/\/t.co\/KOWtN2knQa<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IcVTrkec1n\">pic.twitter.com\/IcVTrkec1n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HillelNeuer\/status\/2093835740517982222?\">August 29, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Noting that 24 Canadians were killed on Sept. 11, 2001, he wrote, \u201cEvery serious newsroom in the English-speaking world settled the question within hours of the second tower falling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnly the broadcaster that Canadians fund with more than a billion dollars a year has decided, a quarter century later, that the matter deserves a different framing,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #171717; display: flex;font-size: 16px;font-weight: 600;line-height: 1.5;margin: 24px 0;padding: 18px 20px 18px 30px;text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"align-self: stretch;border-left: 3px solid #171717;flex-shrink: 0;padding-left: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<p><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/\">Choose The Western Journal as your preferred source on Google and never miss reporting that defends truth, protects freedom, and advances Western civilization<\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"border: 1px solid #f5f5f5; padding: 16px;\">Advertise with The Western Journal and reach millions of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/court-of-appeals-in-swing-states-drop-major-ruling-hurting-kamala-harris-chances-against-trump\/\" title=\"Court of Appeals in Swing States Drop Major Ruling, Hurting Kamala Harris&#039; Chances Against Trump\">highly engaged readers<\/a>, while supporting our work. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/advertise-us\/?wj_source=article\">Advertise Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey == typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts = { \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs = [ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i = 0; i < inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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