Let me introduce you to Esther Enkin, the ombudsman at CBC. She is the one to whom you turn when you believe that the CBC has shown bias or written a piece that is, in your opinion, not factual. This comes directly from her site.
“Esther Enkin was appointed the Corporation’s Ombudsman for English Services on November 28, 2012. She follows Kirk LaPointe, Vince Carlin, David Bazay and William Morgan in that position.
“Ms. Enkin has over 25 years of journalism experience with CBC News, and is widely recognized in Canada and abroad for her knowledge and leadership in the field of journalistic ethics, theory and practice.
Until her nomination as CBC Ombudsman, she was Executive Editor of CBC News, where she was responsible for the quality of CBC journalism, overseeing the development of policy and ensuring CBC’s journalistic standards were met nationally and regionally, on all platforms.
In 2010, she, along with a colleague from Radio Canada, was in charge of the rewriting and redevelopment of CBC’s Journalistic Standards and Practices. She provided close to 2,000 employees with training on the new Standards and Practices.
Before that, Ms. Enkin was Deputy Editor in Chief for CBC News. In that capacity, she ensured compliance with CBC’s Journalistic Standards and Practices throughout CBC and managed the integration of radio, television and on-line news. She had begun working on the integration of newsrooms and newsgathering processes in her previous position as Director of Content Development.
Prior to that, Ms. Enkin occupied several key positions at CBC News, including Head of Information Programming and Chief Journalist, Deputy Managing Editor, Senior Assignment Editor, Senior Editor for the World at Six and Field Producer for The Journal,where her documentaries won several international journalism awards.
Ms. Enkin earned a Bachelor of Journalism Honors degree from Carleton University. She is Vice-President of the Canadian Journalism Forum on Violence and Trauma, and serves on the Ethics Committee of the Canadian Association of Journalists.
You will note that Ms. Enkin has been raised bathed and swaddled in the left wing ideological fascism of the CBC for more than 25 years. She is the CBC.
If you were to go to arbitration because of a difference of opinion in a law suit would you ever accept as the arbitrator someone who has been with the “other” side since time immemorial? And wrote the rules as well?
This is what happens when you complain to the CBC and work your way up to the ombudsman. She is the final and “unbiased” arbiter of right and wrong.
In 2014 I wrote incessantly to the CBC during Operation Protective Edge pointing out the bias against Israel. That the reporters were rarely in Israel. I wrote to her about Derek Stoffel’s “report” that included the death of four year old Daniel Tragerman killed in his home at Kibbutz Nahal Oz by a mortar shell fired from Gaza on August 22, 2014. Listening to Stoffel you would not have known anything about this boy.
I wrote that his reference to Daniel seemed like a throw away-oh and by the way, a four year old died in Israel.
Her response to my concern over his report.
“Mr. Stoffel reported that Gaza militants continued to fire rockets and mortars into communities in the south of Israel. ‘Five Israelis were injured in a mortar attack today’, he said, explaining, ‘[Mortars] are smaller and faster than rockets. Meaning there’s much less time to seek shelter’.
“He concluded the report this way: ‘A mortar attack on Friday killed a 4-year-old Israeli boy in a community on the border with Gaza. He was buried today.’”
We had seen the devastation in Gaza. Stoffel had shown us. But for Israel- just a short note. Probably because not enough Jews had died, not enough destruction on her infrastructure because Israel spends billions protecting her people. There was no mention during that time that Hamas placed its weapons in mosques and UNRWA run schools. That Hamas used human shields.
One year later there were reports from AP that Hamas had hidden weapons and there were reports that Hamas was interfering in reportage-as if that were new. I sent a note to Ms. Enkin suggesting that CBC write an article about the fact that the reports from Operation Protective Edge and particularly Derek Stoffel needed to be reviewed. Her response dated 2015-03-23:
“I will not be reviewing material from the summer again. At the time I reviewed complaints from you and others, I spoke at length with the CBC reporters that were in and out of Gaza. What you read elsewhere does not alter their experience.”
Their-his “experience”? What does that mean, exactly? And what experience? In Israel? When was he there? His experience in Gaza? Is she suggesting that this experienced reporter was unaware of the facts that the Foreign Press Association later reported “That Hamas has been intimidating foreign reporters. In a harsh statement, it condemned the terrorist group for ‘the blatant, incessant, forceful and unorthodox methods employed by the Hamas authorities and their representatives against visiting international journalists in Gaza over the past month.'”
And if he is such a star reporter, why was he unaware? Did he not speak to Israeli experts? People well-versed in Arabic, English and Hebrew?
I’m not interested in his experience. I am interested in facts. And Ombudsman Esther Enkin knew when I contacted her in 2015 that much that had been reported from Gaza was false and somehow their star reporter was part of it. It seems the facts aren’t as important at the CBC as “experience.”
Enkin prides herself on being ethical. After all she serves on the Ethics Committee of the Canadian Association of Journalists. It must be that she and I have a different understanding of ethics. The ombudsman at the CBC is fair; not in the least bit affected by her 25 plus years at the CBC mingling with all of the employees.
And I am the Blue Fairy.
Originally posted http://en.cijnews.com/?p=44730
