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.
In the LA Times, Rabbi Aryeh Cohen castigates the alleged sins of the American Jewish community for "indiscriminately support[ing] the state of Israel, even though in January the International Court of Justice found it plausible that the Israeli government was committing genocide." In fact, that the ICJ in no way determined that Israel is plausibly committing genocide.
CAMERA told NPR editors that, contrary to their headline, both Israel and the Lebanese citizens heard from in the segment refer to Israeli strikes on Hezbollah, not strikes "targeting civilians."
Until CNN is honest about the genocidal crusade of Iran and its proxy terrorist groups, the network’s audience will fail to comprehend the motivations of the parties to the conflict. One side seeks to erase the Jewish state from existence, while the other side refuses to lie down and die.
CAMERA's Israel office yesterday prompts correction of a Los Angeles Times letter-to-the-editor which fabricated that Lebanese civilians not affiliated with Hezbollah had purchased the exploding pagers.
AP's initial misreporting downplayed Hezbollah attacks targeting Israeli civilians and also obscured Hezbollah losses. Hundreds of thousands of Israelis sought shelter from Hezbollah attacks, not thousands. Previous Hezbollah barrages did not mainly aim at military targets. And Hezbollah lost 16 top members -- not just one -- in Friday's Beirut strike.
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.
UPDATE: CAMERA prompts correction after Reuters' James Mackenzie and Ali Sawafta significantly understate the number of Israeli and foreigners killed in Palestinian and Hezbollah attacks.
CAMERA prompts correction of an egregious bogus quote at Reuters echoing Hamas' false claim that Itamar Ben-Gvir announced plans for a Temple Mount synagogue. But the news agency has yet to correct the inflammatory falsehood that the far-right Israeli minister called for Jewish prayer in the Al-Aqsa mosque.
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.
