AP amends after ignoring that the Temple Mount is Judaism's most sacred site. In Gaza Strip coverage, the wire service corrects a headline which upgraded to fact an unverified claim about Israeli military culpability in the death of over 20 aid-seekers and also deletes misleading reporting on the U.N.'s own information regarding theft of humanitarian aid.
On July 21, an AFP journalist society posted a press release about the "last journalists in Gaza" facing death by starvation. The Committee to Protect Journalists then declared that "Israel is starving Gazan journalists into silence.” But were the journalists really being starved into silence?
Francesca Albanese is a liar who has peddled gross antisemitism. But the Associated Press’s piece headlined “Things to know about the UN special rapporteur sanctioned by the US” reads more like a press release drafted by Albanese’s PR team than journalism.
Whether due to laziness or bias, NBC, CBS, the Associated Press, and Reuters did their readers a profound disservice in their coverage of the Taybeh fire. By uncritically amplifying unverified claims and ignoring contradictory evidence, these outlets undermined journalistic integrity and misled their audiences.
Yesterday’s Associated Press story about UN-appointed rapporteur Francesca Albanese doesn’t list an author. But the piece might as well have been written by Albanese herself.
The same terror organization behind sex gum and oxycodone-spiked flour fables is also the source for the unsubstantiated claim that more than 500 Palestinians have been killed while trying to collect food at the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites.
Even as Iran's long-voiced threats have come to fruition, with much of Israel's entire population running to shelters every few hours to seek protection from the regime's mass attacks targeting civilians, AP perseveres with its well-honed practice of whitewashing Iran's genocidal intentions.
Is Israel's naval blockade of the Gaza Strip illegal under international law? Ignoring the U.N.'s unequivocal finding that the blockade is legal and militarily justified, AP leaves readers to believe the answer is blowing in the wind.
Instead of equivocating on the target and source of the violence, the media should consider the role that the many false stories about Israel that have circulated since the start of the war have played in inciting such violence.
Calling a terror operative a journalist doesn’t make him one, CAMERA's Tamar Sternthal writes in The Algemeiner. The AP’s rough schooling in this lesson began with a mundane correspondence, progressed to the most devastating slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust, and continued with a hugely embarrassing court case.
