But they are also aimed at history. If factual news reports on the pager and walkie-talkie attacks are the first rough draft of history, then revisionism by less scrupulous journalists are a malicious attempt at a second draft.
AP's initial misreporting downplayed Hezbollah attacks targeting Israeli civilians and also obscured Hezbollah losses. Hundreds of thousands of Israelis sought shelter from Hezbollah attacks, not thousands. Previous Hezbollah barrages did not mainly aim at military targets. And Hezbollah lost 16 top members -- not just one -- in Friday's Beirut strike.
The Associated Press and Los Angeles Times neglect to correct erroneous reporting that U.S. activist Rachel Corrie was killed while she was protesting a home demolition in the Gaza Strip. Court documents show the bulldozer was clearing brush used in attacks against troops.
CAMERA’s intervention prompts a sweeping correction from the Associated Press, leading over 80 media outlets to retract an inflated Gaza death toll figure.
More than 80 North American news outlets publish an Associated Press correction prompted by CAMERA after the wire service falsely reported that the civilian death toll in the Gaza Strip has exceeded 40,000. The scores of corrections are the most that CAMERA has prompted at once from a single wire service story.
Unmoored from facts, AP terms Houthi attacks on international commercial ships as "retaliation" for Israel's war against Hamas, labels Ismail Haniyah a "relative moderate," and affords Hamas more credibility than Israel.
The Associated Press swerves and ducks the facts about lives cut short by Hamas — Palestinians sheltering in schools killed by errant Hamas rockets along with Israeli babies murdered on Oct. 7.
In dozens of stories, AP committed one of the most egregious journalistic transgressions: misattributing a false quote to a source. Tamar Sternthal explains in Times of Israel how a bogus ICJ quote alleging “plausible risk of genocide” in Gaza found its way into AP reporting, and how CAMERA put an end to it.
Even as authorities from Sydney to Brooklyn were still investigating and removing pro-Hamas graffiti, the Associated Press engaged in scrubbing of a different sort.
UPDATE: In response to communication from CAMERA, both TIME and Times of Israel correct Associated Press copy which erroneously cited Tel Aviv as shorthand for Israel. Both media outlets now correctly refer to Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
