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.
Following correspondence from CAMERA Español, Spain's publicly-funded RTVE removed an Instagram post which falsely claimed that Israel passed a law enabling the “death penalty for Palestinians.”
A recent Smithsonian Magazine report claimed that Megiddo was an “ancient Palestinian city." But as CAMERA told the publication, there is no such thing. Following contact from CAMERA, Smithsonian corrected.
Along with the "tsunami" of emigration is a flood of Israeli media misreporting including factual errors, misunderstanding of demographic concepts and the failure to provide critical context. UPDATE: Ynet deletes erroneous references to a "negative migration balance" and adds key context on the departure of recent immigrants who had fled the Russia-Ukraine war.
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.
Lesson learned? A CAMERA-prompted AP correction on "Palestine" terminology appearing in an education story reaches more than 30 secondary media outlets.
CAMERA prompts correction at Haaretz's English edition after the Israeli daily whitewashed arch-terrorist Marwan Barghouti's responsibility for multiple deadly attacks as "alleged." The improved digital copy now notes the terror leader's convictions for deadly attacks.
In some journalists' looking-glass view, when Palestinians attack Israelis, the ceasefire is not tested and tensions are not roiled. But when Israel dares to respond to the Palestinian attack? It is only at that point, according to this warped depiction, that the tense quiet is shaken and all is no longer well.
With this week's hostage release, CAMERA prompts a series of corrections -- most recently at Time -- after media outlets conflate Israeli and foreign hostages held captive in violation of international law with hardcore convicted Palestinian terrorists and security detainees.
For the second time in four months, and 736 days since Hamas and other terrorists kidnapped 251 Israelis and foreigners, CAMERA prompts correction of Haaretz's mischaracterization of the hostages as prisoners.
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."
