Photo Captions

CAMERA Prompts Improved Reuters Captions on Palestinian Arson Attacks

Reuters captions early this week about the devastation in southern Israel caused by Palestinian "kite terror" ignored the fires' cause. In response to CAMERA's communication, subsequent captions note "Palestinians have been causing blazes by flying kites and balloons loaded with flammable materials."

AP Misuse of Photo Links Syrian Gas Attack Victims to Israel

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.

AFP Corrects Photo Caption on Palestinian Refugee

An AFP correction today, prompted by CAMERA, underscores the media tendency to conflate approximately 600,000 Palestinians who fled or were expelled in 1948 with millions of their descendants.

Gaza Photo Controversy: Corrections and Lessons

Four months after Gaza-Israel fighting, media again backtrack on reports which had unequivocally blamed Israel for the death of a Palestinian child. The AP and Washington Post issue corrections on Omar Masharawi. The LA Times does not.