CAMERA prompts a social media uproar and a New York Times Editor's Note after the Gray Lady reported that "Israelis still largely view themselves as the victims of Oct. 7," wording which suggests that Israelis were not, in fact, the victims of Hamas' massacre, the worst slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust.
It's unacceptable that media reporting on fatalities incurred in Israeli military operations almost never note that the combatant to civilian ratio is 1:1 in Lebanon and 1:2 in the Gaza Strip, CAMERA's Shay Khatiri writes in JNS.
Despite extensive citation of the NGO in their coverage of Israel and Gaza, the BBC and New York Times have yet to report on Amnesty International’s findings on Hamas’ extrajudicial killings, CAMERA's Maia Zelkha writes at JNS.
In an article analyzing the origin and spread of viral misinformation, The New York Times was unable to see how it has participated in the dangerous phenomenon.
A New York Times op-ed claims the recent wars in the Middle East demonstrate "the new physics of power." But these allegedly new physics are actually quite old.
The New York Times (re)introduced its audience to, and promoted the work of, Gazan blood-libel-photojournalist Saher Alghorra. Alghorra was unable to photograph a single Hamas fighter, but last year, photographed an emaciated baby who The Times later had to acknowledge was not healthy before the war, as the caption initially stated.
NYT columnist Michelle Goldberg referred to Hasan Piker's "jejune sympathies for all sorts of brutal anti-American regimes." If Piker's politics are "jejune," why is NYT promoting him so vigorously? Is it really Piker's politics that are jejune, or maybe it's Goldberg's journalism?
Same day reporting by CNN, Reuters, The Washington Post, and The New York Times framed the incident near Tell as a case of settler violence, while omitting key details. Because these mainstream media failed to do their jobs, it befell to CAMERA to investigate who the individuals involved in the incident were.
