Canadian broadcaster shifts policy on using ‘terrorism’ to describe 9/11

The media outlet said it had previously required the term to be attributed to a source.

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s (CBC) walked back its move Friday to advise its journalists not to refer directly to Al Qaeda’s Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the U.S. as an act of terrorism — guidance that garnered widespread criticism from political leaders. In an internal memo this week first reported by The Toro

CBC made the change after it was criticized by Canadian and U.S. officials.