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.
CNN Clip of Palestinians Celebrating 9/11 Attacks
New York Magazine Cover Photo Seems to Blame Israel for WTC Attacks
New York Magazine's October 29th cover photo features a six-year-old boy holding up his drawing of the World Trade Center on fire and about to be hit by what appears to be an Israeli plane
Mohammed Atta
Have Reuters Photos Improved?
CAMERA Op-Ed: ‘Special’ Serves Up More CNN Bias
Viewers’ Guide to the History Channel’s “Cover Up: Attack on the USS Liberty”
A History Channel program charges that the US and Israel have covered up the facts behind the attack by Israeli jets and torpedo boats on a US intelligence-gathering ship during the 1967 Six Day War. Since the attack certain crewmen of the Liberty have charged that Israel deliberately and knowingly attacked the US ship, and have advanced increasingly complicated and even bizarre theories to explain Israel's alleged motivation for such an act.
Peace Process Unraveled?
Tracy Wilkinson reports in a July 20 news story that the 1995 assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin by a Jewish extremist "may have set in motion the ultimate unraveling of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process" ("Clemency Decree in Rabin Case Divides Israelis").
AP Corrects False Story About Israeli Roadblock
The AP today (July 12) corrected a false story it had sent out yesterday which reported that a Palestinian newborn died as a result of an inordinately long wait at an Israeli checkpoint. According to the original story, a pregnant Palestinian woman on the way to hospital gave birth while her taxi was delayed for two-and-a-half hours at an Israeli checkpoint, leading to the death of the baby.