Caught the CBC radio program Day Six this morning. Host Brent Bambury interviewed Mona Yacoubian, a Syria expert from the United States Institute of Peace, about the current situation in Syria, and specifically in East Ghouta.
In the interest of journalistic integrity, the CBC has an obligation to provide enough background on those to whom it gives airtime so that the audience can decide for itself if we are getting unbiased analysis or, instead, the partisan spin of someone with an axe to grind.
To that end, it would have been germane for Mr. Bambury to point out that in addition to being a "Syria expert," his guest is also a fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, the influential US foreign policy think tank that has never seen an American intervention not worth cheer-leading.
Furthermore, he could have pointed out that the US Institute of Peace is a wholly government-owned "NGO" with intimate ties to the CIA.
Shame on Brent Bambury and shame on the CBC.
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