The Jewish Defence League of Canada (JDL) will sue CBC [Canadian Broadcasting Corporation] for defamation, said the JDL’s leader, after the country’s most prominent news organization called it a terrorist group.

“This is a part of a campaign of defamation against people who are on the right wing,” said Meir Weinstein, head of the group. “Everybody who has attended one of our rallies and who has supported us is in the same boat with us: they’ve been defamed.”

He also was incensed that CBC, which, in the interest of balanced reporting, normally avoids using the word “terrorist” for even the most violent of groups, attached the moniker to his band of spirited but non-violent protesters, even if it was merely citing a government term.

CBC issued an on-air apology five days after the original broadcast.

“We want to correct and apologize for a mistake we made last Sunday. In one segment, we said the Jewish Defence League is a banned terrorist organization in Canada. The Jewish Defence League is not on the government of Canada’s list of groups or individuals identified as being associated with terrorism and we very much regret the error.”

Weinstein isn’t satisfied with the apology, noting that it aired on the Friday morning before the long weekend when viewership dips. He also wants “recognition as a safe, law-abiding, activist organization.”

Weinstein expects the group’s attorney to deliver a letter of intent to sue next week, and the JDL might also sue the reporter who made the statement, Bill Gillespie …

Thanks, Adrienne!

From a report in the Globe And Mail:

The CBC has admitted it inadvertently displayed the jacket of an anti-Sarah Palin book during a story about the former vice-presidential candidate that aired on The National.
The gaffe came Monday night during a piece on Ms. Palin’s hotly anticipated new memoir Going Rogue: An American Life.
A CBC spokesman confirmed that the network mistakenly put up a graphic depicting the cover of Going Rouge: Sarah Palin An American Nightmare…

CBC spokesman Jeff Keay says the mistake was fixed in a subsequent broadcast.

No mention of a correction. I also wonder if the same thing happened at the Herald in South Carolina, given this correction:

The wrong book cover ran in Monday s Herald with a story about Sarah Palin. Palin’s new book, Going Rogue, hits bookstores today.

Update Nov. 23: Here’s a related report on Yahoo! India:

…the confusion between the books has even struck CNN’s Political Ticker, which quoted Obama adviser David Axelrod saying he’d be borrowing Obama campaign manager David Plouffe’s copy of ‘Going Rouge’.USA Today’s section The Oval wrongly posted the cover of ‘Going Rouge’ with a review of Palin’s book.

It has since corrected the confusion with the statement: Erratum: An earlier posting featured the photo of a different Sarah Palin book. The Oval regrets the error.”

Last week, Fox News Channel apologized for showing the cover of the takedown book while discussing Palin’s memoir.

“We are sure that many people who mistakenly bought our book will have been pleasantly surprised. You learn more about the real Palin in our version,” added Robinson.

CBC has learned the hard way not to mess with puppets, and yesterday officially apologized to Rusty the Rooster and Jerome the Giraffe.

The Homme family removed the beloved puppets – stars of deceased creator Bob Homme’s hit show The Friendly Giant – from the CBC Museum yesterday after the broadcaster used the characters in a recent Gemini Awards skit without the family’s permission.

Jeff Keay, spokesman for the public broadcaster, said “we have apologized to members of the Homme family for not getting their permission to use The Friendly Giant puppets … and we sincerely regret they feel any trust was breached.”

Ann Homme, a daughter of Bob, said in a recent e-mail to The Globe and Mail that the Gemini infraction was “the last straw.”

“Until recently, we were contacted by the people at the CBC museum, where the puppets are on loan, by a very conscientious woman who seemed to guard the Friendly Giant display with her life,” Ms. Homme wrote. “Recently, she was let go, and replaced by someone who seems to think our permission is unnecessary. Needless to say, I am going to remove the Friendly Giant props and puppets as soon as possible.”