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.
Despite the fact that Hamas openly acknowledges that some 200 armed combatants holed up in tunnels under Rafah are its fighters, a Reuters' story today called them "civilians." Following correspondence from CAMERA, the wire service pulled the story.
CAMERA prompts correction of a Jerusalem Post headline and parts of an article which wrongly referred to Israeli and foreign hostages held by Hamas and other terror organizations in the Gaza Strip as "prisoners."
The Jerusalem Post is to be commended for entirely withdrawing an article which had wrongly reported that Passover hikers passed over the border into Syria. And while Haaretz slightly readjusted its navigational heading, Ynet remains stuck in the mud.
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 prompts correction of a Jerusalem Post article claiming that U.S. activist Rachel Corrie was killed 2003 in the Gaza Strip while preventing a home demolition. A Haifa court found that the bulldozer was clearing brush to prevent attacks on Israeli troops.
Israeli Arab terrorists Karim and Maher Younis were convicted of the 1980 kidnapping and murder of Israeli soldier Avraham Bromberg. It's amazing how many facts about this case were misreported. With Arabic and English corrections at Reuters, AFP, France 24 and more, only The Jerusalem Post remains impervious to requests to set the record straight.
Reuters, Haaretz and The Jerusalem Post correct headlines falsely reporting that Nasser Abu Hmeid died in Israeli prison, fueling unsubstantiated Palestinian charges of medical neglect.
Several hours after Tiran Fero's family reported that Palestinian gunmen killed the Israeli Druze high schooler by unhooking his ventilator in a Jenin hospital, leading media outlets continued to ignore their account. And then CAMERA stepped in.
UPDATE: "[P]er the Oslo Accords, the PA is not permitted a conventional military but maintains security and police forces," the CIA Factbook rightly notes. CAMERA prompts corrections in English, Arabic and Spanish after Reuters mischaracterized Palestinian security officers and police as "soldiers."
