Ha’aretz, the Lie of the Land
In a familiar syndrome, many otherwise impartial American journalists, newly posted in Israel, slip quickly in their reporting into unmistakably hostile views of the country. Why?
Andrea Levin
CAMERA Op-Ed: Access and Ethics at the New York Times
Like CNN, the New York Times aims to cover the globe, even from inside despotic regimes. Yet ethical compromise is inevitable in the controlled realms of dictators and medieval monarchs. Language must not offend, nor can there be reminders of unflattering policies and events. Watchful officials keep records, and journalists pay a price for perceived infractions.
CAMERA Op-Ed: National Public Radio’s Predictable Evasions
Nothing underscores National Public Radio's shoddy Middle East reporting and evasion of accountability quite like its official rejoinders to criticism. News Vice President Bruce Drake replied to a Jerusalem Post column critical of NPR coverage ("National Public Radio Off the Map," May 23, 2003) dodging and obfuscating in familiar style
New York Times Veers Off the ‘Road Map’
The New York Times has trouble reporting the facts straight about Middle East documents, repeatedly distorting their terms and shifting responsibility — and fault — to Israel. Recent misinformation about the road map by correspondent Steven Weisman is fuel for critics who see the paper increasingly marshaling its news pages to advance an editorial agenda.
Newspaper Headlines Omit Terror Perpetrators
Newspaper headlines about the Hamas terrorist bombing in Jerusalem — for which the death tally has now reached 17 — and Israel's strike against Hamas in Gaza that killed four members of that organization and five bystanders have very often failed to represent events clearly.
CAMERA Op-Ed: National Public Radio Off the Map
Like deja vu all over again, National Public Radio has covered the release of the road map and surrounding events with the same tilt toward Palestinian interests it displayed for a decade in reporting the failed Oslo negotiations.
CAMERA Op-Ed: CNN’s Compromise
CNN executive Eason Jordan's dramatic acknowledgment in a New York Times op-ed ("The News We Kept to Ourselves," April 11, 2003) that for more than a decade his network concealed gruesome information about Saddam Hussein's regime lifts the rock a notch off the dark underside of media collaboration with barbarous dictators.
CAMERA Op-Ed: Media’s Selective Martyrology
Coverage of the story of Rachel Corrie, the American college student and Palestinian advocate killed by an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza while attempting to block a house demolition, followed predictable trends.
Israeli Arab Rights and Wrongs
Too often, reports on Israel's minority include false platitudes about ethnicity-related gaps in income and municipal services.
CAMERA Op-Ed: Israeli Arab Rights and Wrongs
As Israel went to the polls in January, a surge of news stories appeared about the lives, attitudes and voting patterns of its Arab citizens. All too many were boiler-plate recitations of charges that Israeli Arabs are understandably aggrieved and deeply alienated from their country because of its alleged discriminatory policies.