CAMERA Prompts LA Times Correction on ‘Israeli-Occupied’ Quneitra
CAMERA staff elicited a correction on a Los Angeles Times news article which wrongly stated that the Syrian town of Quneitra is in the "Israeli-occupied Golan Heights." Media Corrections
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 staff elicited a correction on a Los Angeles Times news article which wrongly stated that the Syrian town of Quneitra is in the "Israeli-occupied Golan Heights." CAMERA Prompts NYT Correction of Camp David Error
CAMERA staff have elicited a clarification in a New York Times story about Egyptian leader Mohamed Morsi that misrepresented the 1978 Camp David Accords. CAMERA Prompts LA Times Correction on Israeli Victim of Border Attack
CAMERA staff have elicited a correction on a Los Angeles Times article this week which wrongly identified the Israeli civilian killed in a June terror attack as a soldier. CiF Watch Prompts Guardian Correction on Settlements
CiF Watch, an independent project of CAMERA, prompted a correction on a Guardian article which vastly overstated the amount of settlement construction recently approved by Binyamin Netanyahu. Alex Awad Agrees to Remove Fake Ben Gurion Quote From DVD
Alex Awad, the Dean of Students at Bethlehem Bible College, has agreed to remove a fake Ben Gurion quote from future DVDs of his presentation about the Arab-Israeli conflict. CAMERA Prompts Ha’aretz Correction on ‘Nakba Day’ Clash
CAMERA's Israel office prompted a correction in Ha'aretz on a photo caption which had wrongly placed a "Nakba Day" clash in Ramallah, when it actually took place at the Ofer military prison outside of Ramallah. Lost in Translation: Ha’aretz Corrects ‘Nakba Law’
CAMERA's Israeli staff prompted a timely correction of the latest case of "Lost in Translation." The original Hebrew edition correctly reported on the "Nakba Law," while English translators recreated it as something much more sweeping than it actually is. CAMERA Prompts Removal of Tendentious LA Times Headline
Following communication with CAMERA staff, the Los Angeles Times changed a tendentious headline which falsely depicted Sheik Raed Saleh, the leader of the northern branch of the Islamist Movement in Israel, as a campaigner for civil rights. Washington Post Corrects: Jerusalem is Israel’s Capital
CAMERA staff prompts a commendable correction at the Washington Post making clear that Jerusalem is Israel's capital, and not Tel Aviv, as wrongly reported last week. The error and correction follow: Ha’aretz ‘Lost in Translation’ Corrected
Yesterday, settlements advocate Karni Eldad wrote in the Hebrew edition of Ha'aretz that settlers "cleared stones." Ha'aretz erroneously translated that phrase into English as settlers "expelled," an incendiary charge. Today, Ha'aretz commendably corrects the latest "Lost in Translation."