Tamar Sternthal
Lebanon’s Civil War and Jennings’ Historical Revisionism
“Nightline”: Suicide Bombers As Victims
UPDATED: Finally Getting It Straight at Lawrence Eagle-Tribune
A headline in the Lawrence Eagle-Tribune erroneously suggested that Israeli troops carelessly killed a Palestinian child when, in fact, Israeli troops destroyed the home of a Palestinian gunman who had killed an Israeli baby. Apparently, the headline writer's operating assumption was that when it comes to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a dead baby, the Israelis are culpable and the tiny victim is, of course, Palestinian. No matter what the articles themselves say.
Palestinian Leadership Committing the “Unthinkable”
CAMERA Column: Alienating Readers at the Times
"The harm done by Jayson Blair in The New York Times newsroom may, in the end, be offset by a bit of good it does elsewhere. The incident is serving as a wake-up call for journalism, prompting many papers ... to redouble efforts at accuracy and accountability," wrote Christine Chinlund, the Boston Globe ombudsman, in a soul-searching column on media accountability.
Judt Labels Israel “Anachronistic,” Calls for Binational State
"Israel, in short, is an anachronism" charges Tony Judt in the Los Angeles Times and the New York Review of Books in arguing for the elimination of the Jewish state in favor of a binational secular state. He falsely singles out Israel as being the only modern, democratic nation based on "ethno-religious criteria."
LA Times Distorts Temple Mount History
Henry Chu's Sept. 27 article about the Temple Mount is yet another example of the Los Angeles Times' sloppy reporting and non-responsiveness to readers' feedback concerning factual errors ("Faith and Rage Intersect at Jerusalem Holy Site").
Christianity Today Divorced From Facts in Story on Marriage Law
One month after Christianity Today first received word from CAMERA that an August 4 on-line column by Gary Burge contains multiple factual errors, the editors have made no move to correct the record.
Cooked Up Charges Against Israel
Jonathan Cook, a free-lance writer whose tendentious articles charging Israel with gross wrongdoing frequently appear in Egypt's Al-Ahram, in addition to other publications in the Muslim world, has received a pass from fact-checkers at the International Herald Tribune.