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.
On Oct 9, 2023, at a demonstration in front of the Sydney Opera House, a crowd chanted “F**k the Jews!” Or in the words of the New York Times, there were no antisemitic slurs.
(Update: After outreach from CAMERA, the paper corrected its false claim.)
After contact from CAMERA, the Washington Post amended a story which initially claimed that peace negotiations led to Israel's 2005 withdrawal from Gaza. But as CAMERA told Post staff that withdrawal was a unilateral decision.
An AP headline stated as fact the unverified claim that Israeli forces fatally shot four aid seekers: "Israeli forces kill 4 more aid seekers as northern Gaza braces for looming offensive." Following communication from CAMERA, editors added attribution, qualifying the claim as just that.
CAMERA's Hebrew department prompted corrections in both English and Hebrew after the Israeli daily Haaretz erroneously repeated the false canard that the Gaza Strip is the world's most densely populated place.
Reuters corrects after citing B'Tselem's grossly inflated figure for Israeli domestic water usage. But its article still ignores Israeli data indicating that double the amount of water recommended for daily use in emergency situations is available in the Gaza Strip.
AP amends after ignoring that the Temple Mount is Judaism's most sacred site. In Gaza Strip coverage, the wire service corrects a headline which upgraded to fact an unverified claim about Israeli military culpability in the death of over 20 aid-seekers and also deletes misleading reporting on the U.N.'s own information regarding theft of humanitarian aid.
The 10,000-word feature called "Crimes of the Century" by Suzy Hansen is not investigative journalism; it’s agitprop that fits right into Hamas’ campaign to vilify the Jewish state as genocidal and guilty of shattering the entire global legal order. Filled with factual errors, distortions and misrepresentations, the piece projects Hamas’ genocidal mission onto its victims.
Reuters relies on Ali Vaez, alleged to be an undisclosed influencer on behalf of the Iranian regime, to promote Hassan Khomeini as a "relative[ly] moderate" successor for the Islamic Republic's Supreme Leader. The purported "pragmatist" has previously shared his plans for wiping out Israel.
In a recent video, posted on CNN’s TikTok and YouTube “Shorts” channels, Amanpour claimed that an Iranian ballistic missile struck “near a hospital” in Beer Sheva. In fact, the missile slammed directly into the Soroka Medical Center, destroying the hospital’s surgical ward.
