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's Israel office has prompted correction of a New York Times photo caption which grossly overstated the number of Bedouins facing relocation a short distance according to the controversial Prawer-Begin plan. In the first media correction prompted by CAMERA's Israel office since this week's opening of its Jerusalem hub, the International New York Times corrects an article which had incorrectly reported that Israel advances plans for 3,500 new settlements. After CAMERA challenged inaccurate translations of statements by Iran's current and previous presidents, The New York Times corrected its article. After communication with CAMERA staff, the New York Times corrected its erroneous claim that there is a "requirement" of gender segregation on buses passing through ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods. In response to discussion with CAMERA staff, the New York Times corrected inaccurate claims about the E1 corridor cutting off Palestinian cities from Jerusalem and bisecting the West Bank. For a more analysis on the subject, read CAMERA's "Media Embrace E1 Falsehoods." CAMERA staff have elicited a clarification in a New York Times story about Egyptian leader Mohamed Morsi that misrepresented the 1978 Camp David Accords. The New York Times has commendably corrected an article which last week erroneously reported President Obama's statements at the AIPAC conference regarding Iran's nuclear program. CAMERA staff elicited corrections in the New York Times and in the International Herald Tribune concerning the number of Palestinian refugees from the 1948 and 1967 wars. An article appearing in both papers grossly overstated the figure. A caption accompanying a February 7, 2008 photograph of an Israeli family fleeing their Sderot home that had been hit by Palestinian rockets ultimately placed the blame on Israel. The attack was characterized as "retaliation for an Israeli airstrike in southern Gaza."