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 Washington office prompts correction of a Washington Post article which erroneously referred to "the gradual disappearance of the Christian community in Israel and Palestine." Israel's Christian population is growing. CAMERA's Israel office prompts correction of a New York Times article which erroneously reported that Israel blocked the installation of a scanner meant for Gaza exports. In fact, it was installed weeks ago and is already in use. CAMERA's Israel office today prompts correction of an Op-Ed by Hebrew University political scientist Shlomo Avineri who erroneously wrote yesterday that Nelson Mandela "never visited Israel" 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. CAMERA's Washington DC office prompts correction of a USA Today article in which the Green Line, an armistice line, was incorrectly described as an internationally recognized border. CiF Watch, a CAMERA affiliate, has prompted a rare correction at the Economist on an article which incorrectly reported on American Jewish views on Israel and Iran. Presspectiva, CAMERA's Hebrew affiliate, today prompts Ha'aretz corrections in both English and Hebrew on a Moshe Arens Op-Ed which incorrectly stated that the EU's Horizon 2020 initiative would prohibit funding to Israeli scientists residing over the Green Line.
CiF Watch, a CAMERA affiliate, has prompted a Guardian correction of an Op-Ed in which Michael Brull truncated a quote by Tzipi Livni, misrepresenting her description of the Palestinian view on settlements as her own view. 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. Following communication from CAMERA, Ha'aretz today corrects an article which had downgraded the life sentences of Palestinian prisoners. But a page-one photo caption also today whitewashes the murders carried out by the prisoners.