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Ottawa, May 16, 2005 - The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) today released its decision concerning two news broadcasts in which the national adjective “Polish” was used to describe Second World War phenomena: in one case, a ghetto, and, in the other, the concentration camp at Treblinka.
In the first case, on November 8, 2003, the CTV Television Network broadcast the story of a Holocaust survivor during the course of which the following statement was made: "He was five years younger than his audience when his family was forced into a Polish ghetto for Jews." In the second, on April 30, 2004, CTV Newsnet described John Demjanjuk as “a notoriously sadistic guard at the Polish camp of Treblinka.” In all, complaints were received relating to one or the other or both of the news items from 126 individuals, of whom the then Ambassador of the Republic of Poland, as well as another Canadian of Polish extraction, requested adjudication of the matter by the CBSC. The Ambassador put his complaint in the following terms:
The use of such words might leave doubts for Canadian viewers as to who created and operated ghettos in <…> Nazi occupied Poland during WWII. There should be no doubt about it and any attempt to suggest otherwise is offensive to Poland and Polish people. <…> There were ghettos for Jews in cities on the territory of Nazi occupied Poland, e.g. Warsaw ghetto, Lòdz? ghetto or Bialystok ghetto, established by the Nazi authorities.
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http://www.cbsc.ca/english/cbscdocs/prs/2005/whatnew050516.htmThe whole ruling was shown on screen and read out loud on the national news tonight. I like to see the media being held to account.
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