Sorry to get all political on your asses again, but, reading my CBC news like a good little Canadian, I came across an article headlined “Hezbollah leader Nasrallah regrets war“. The third paragraph of the piece gives this helpful overview of the recent Lebanese conflict:

“The war devastated Lebanon, where at least 850 militants and civilians died in Israeli bombardments and land attacks, while Hezbollah rockets and fighters killed at least 157 Israeli civilians and soldiers.”

It seems odd to me that the unnamed writer of this piece would use the phrase “militants and civilians” in one instance of describing the death toll, then switch the word-order to “civilians and soldiers” in the next. It also seems strange that the Lebanese somewhat passively “died” whereas the Israeli’s were more actively “killed”. What if CBC’s paragraph looked like this instead: “The war devastated Lebanon, where at least 850 civilians and militants were killed in Israeli bombardments and land attacks, while Hezbollah rockets and fighters killed at least 157 Israeli civilians and soldiers.” Doesn’t that seem like a less-biased rendering of the same information? Then again, this still misses a big part of the story; namely, that while most of Hezbollah’s victims were Israeli soldiers illegally attacking Lebanon, most of Israel’s Lebanese victims were civilians, and the majority of those, children.

Now, naturally, I expect a pro-Israel bias from mainstream media, especially the National Post, maybe even the Edmonton Journal, but the CBC? That’s troubling…