CAMERA OP-ED: Media Laud Al-Marayati, Blame the Jews
In a display of rare unity, major Jewish organizations recently spoke as one in opposing the nomination of Salam Al-Marayati to a national commission evaluating U.S. policy on terrorism.
Andrea Levin
Palestinian Textbooks Teach Anti-Israel Hate
The media have ignored the Israeli publications which promote humane images of Arabs, and, far more importantly, have turned a blind eye to the systematic incitement to hatred of Jews and Israel sponsored by the Palestinian Authority in PA schools.
PBS Breaks Mold With Middle East Documentary
Living up to its name, the Public Broadcasting Service, PBS aired a five-hour documentary in late January entitled The Fifty Years War: Israel and the Arabs that marked a departure from an earlier pattern of severely biased Middle East documentaries.
NPR Bias Triggers New CAMERA Action
Why does the fierce anti-Israel bias persist at NPR, a network whose programming is now heard on nearly 600 affiliate stations nationwide?
West Bank Water and New York Times Stereotypes
Douglas Jehl got just about everything wrong in his New York Times story about water problems in Hebron - misrepresenting the nation's role in providing water to the Palestinians, omitting entirely Palestinian water obligations under Oslo and focusing almost exclusively on denunciations of Israel.
CAMERA OP-ED: Journalists Behaving Badly
In a remarkable series of articles in late May, Geneva Overholser, the outgoing Ombudsman at the Washington Post and formerly the editor of a major Midwest newspaper, offered her observations about the state of journalism generally and conditions at the Post specifically.
Israel’s 50th, the New Historians and NPR
Israel's 50th anniversary with its outpouring of media coverage has been a numbing reminder of journalism's herd instinct, the tendency of reporters to imitate one another, repeating the same themes and citing the same experts...
New York Times Twists Oslo
Comply with Oslo or face the consequences. That was the Israeli message to its Palestinian negotiating partner when it issued a detailed account of the Palestinian Authority's stunning failure to adhere to the landmark accords...
The Washington Post’s Israel Problem
The recent terrorist bombing in Israel snuffed out the lives of 15 innocent people, maimed dozens more and spread fear in a vulnerable society. How did the Washington Post cover the attack and the political struggle that ensued? Passing speedily over the torn bodies of the bomb victims to focus a hostile eye on Israel was just the beginning.
Media Err on Jerusalem and Israel
June 5, 1997 marked thirty years since Israel won the Six Day War and the anniversary prompted a rash of news stories about a victory that brought the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem under Israeli control.