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 a Times of Israel clarification of a headline which had located an Israeli vehicle targeted by a Hamas bomb as "in Gaza." The army noted that the vehicle was located in the Israeli buffer zone on the Gaza side of the fence. CAMERA Arabic prompts correction of a Reuters caption in Arabic which misidentified a Palestinian participating in clashes at the Gaza border as Israeli. Without skepticism or challenge, the Associated Press quoted a Palestinian medical official claiming that exit wounds that are larger than entry wounds are evidence of "explosive bullets." Is that true? (Updated with AP correction)
An Associated Press headline noting that Israel is being blamed for an attack on a Syrian military base is misleadingly accompanied by an image of child victims of an earlier chemical attack, believed to have been carried out by the Syrian regime. CAMERA prompted a Reuters correction in a story about Saudi acknowledgement of a Jewish right to self-determination in Israel. The story originally referred to a rapprochement between "Riyadh and Tel Aviv" to denote the seats of the governments of Saudi Arabia and Israel. In a passing reference to Israel, Syrian blogger Ragheb Bakresh used scare quotes, as if the country's existence is questionable at best. In response to communication from CAMERA Arabic, Huffington Post Arabic removed the quotation marks.