CBC reverses 9/11 terminology policy after public backlash over 'terrorist attacks' guidance

Nearly 3,000 people were killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York, Washington D.C., and Pennsylvania.

In the weeks before the 25th anniversary of September 11, Canada's public broadcaster found itself defending an internal editorial guideline that, once exposed to public light, appeared to soften the language surrounding one of history's most deliberate acts of mass murder. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation had long required journalists to attribute the label 'terrorism' to officials and experts rather than state it as independent fact — a practice common among major newsrooms — but a leaked memo reduced that nuance to something that felt, to many, like erasure. Faced with public grief and

CBC reverses 9/11 terminology policy after public backlash over 'terrorist attacks' guidance

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