To: CNN news agency
We, the employees of the Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy (MIFTAH), are writing to you with great alarm and concern regarding the programming of a week long series of interviews with Israeli victims of Palestinian attacks, which are scheduled to start airing on CNN today, June 24th. This series, entitled "Victims of Terror," is presented subsequent to massive verbal aggression to your news network from supporters of Israel and Zionism, who have written in opposition to Mr. Ted Turner's comments made on June 18th, by which he equated Palestinian attacks with Israeli military attacks as both being acts of terrorism. As a response to this aggression, Mr. Eason Jordan, the president of CNN newsgathering, has defended CNN in a recent interview with Israel Television by saying that "CNN is not pro-Palestinian or anti-Israeli. We're fair, we're responsible in our reporting, [and] we try to be as accurate as we possibly can be." He further added that "[CNN] want[s] to focus more on the victims of terror. We have done that, [but] I don't think we've done that enough." We believe that by airing such series, CNN has broken its promise of "fairly", "accurately," and "responsibly" reporting due to the following reasons:
Thank you,
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