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Media Corrections

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.

 

CAMERA Prompts Ha’aretz Correction on Al Dura

CAMERA's Israel staff elicited a correction from the English edition of Ha'aretz on a news article which stated as fact that Mohammed Al-Dura was killed by Israeli army fire.

New Year, New Precedent: Ha’aretz Corrects

CAMERA's Israeli staff prompts an unprecedent correction today at Ha'aretz. Akiva Eldar corrects his false claim that a Hebrew University poll found that 21 percent of settlers endorse the "use of arms" to resist settlement evacuations.

NPR and IHT Corrected. Will Ha’aretz?

In an Op-Ed yesterday, Ha'aretz's Nehemia Shtrasler erroneously refers to the IDF as "the world's fifth largest" army. The Israeli army is not even the fifth largest in the Middle East, never mind the world. Other major media outlets have corrected this very same error, and CAMERA urges Ha'aretz to follow suit.

BBC Admits to Mistakes, Apologizes

The BBC has admitted on Feb. 17, 2005 to airing an unsubstantiated allegation against Israel without fact checking it, and has apologized.