Accuracy and accountability are among the most important tenets of journalism. In combination, they mean media organizations are expected to publish or broadcast forthright corrections after sharing inaccurate information. The following corrections are among the many prompted by CAMERA’s communication with reporters and editors.
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan accused Israel of seeking to turn Turkey into a new enemy. AFP's English-language headline stated as fact: "Israel seeks to declare Turkey 'new enemy.'"
While the Islamic Republic's motives for disguising the true nature of its nuclear program are obvious, what possible rationale is there for Western media outlets to cover up the Iranian nuclear threat? Agence France Presse is the latest to submit to the suicidal impulse and erase the existential threats posed by the mullah-run regime.
Parroting Islamic Republic propaganda seeking to justify the mass casualty attack on Dimona yesterday, media outlets including AFP, New York Times and CNN falsely reported that the southern Israeli town is home to Israel's nuclear program. In fact, the town is some 15 kilometers northwest of the secretive facility. UPDATE: The New York Times corrects.
UPDATED: CAMERA prompts an AP correction, republished in dozens of secondary media outlets, after the news agency cited "Washington and Tel Aviv," wrongly identifying Israel's capital.
More than a year and a half after multiple foreign intelligence sources ruled out an Israeli airstrike as responsible for the deadly Al-Ahli hospital blast, pointing instead to an errant Palestinian rocket, some media outlets regress into the murky fog of war mode.
CAMERA's Israel office has prompted Agence France Presse corrections in both English and French after the news agency grossly inflated Hamas' own claim about the death toll in the Gaza Strip from 436 to 970.
CAMERA prompts an AFP correction after the wire service misreported that Netanyahu has opposed "any Palestinian governance in the Gaza Strip." In fact, the Israeli Prime Minister has called for "civilian administration run by Palestinians who do not seek to destroy Israel."
CAMERA prompts correction of an Agence France Presse article which incorrectly identified Rep. Rashida Tlaib as “the first Palestinian-American in Congress." While she is the first Palestinian-American woman in Congress, several Palestinian-American men served preceded her.
UPDATE: CAMERA prompts corrections of AFP and Getty photograph captions which whitewashed a New York City demonstrator waving a Hamas flag and sporting a Hamas headband as a "[p]ro-Palestinian" demonstrator. The corrected captions make his Hamas affiliation clear.
CAMERA prompts AFP to amend after reporting the "whole [Eurovision] contest has been clouded by the participation of Israel." It's not Israel which clouded Eurovision. It's the haters of Israel who did so.
