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Despite Some Improvement, AP Misreporting Persists
The influential wire service is more responsive in correcting some factual errors, but continues to downplay attacks against Israelis. The Associated Press might be the single most influential news organization
in the United States if numbers are the measure. The agency serves 1,700 newspapers and 5,000 radio and television stations nationally. Worldwide, over one billion people a day obtain news from the AP, according to the organization.
UPDATED: Student Editors Apologize for Anti-Semitic Column
Editors at Portland State University's campus paper have apologized for an Oct. 18 column by staff member Caelan MacTavish which blamed the Jews themselves for anti-Semitism, disparaged the Jewish people, and included a number of absurd factual errors about Judaism and Israel.
AFP Doctors Story on U.S.-Syria Deal
In a case of apparently blatant manipulation, AFP has removed a key item in a reported list of four U.S. demands being made of Syria in the wake of the Hariri assassination. More than one AFP story omits the call to "stop support for militant groups like Hezbollah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad."
Star Tribune Editors Exonerate Hamas
The Star Tribune (Minneapolis-St. Paul) stands by highly disturbing changes they made to an Associated Press story. The newspaper removed key information so that readers were left with the misleading impression that Israel alone is blamed for a Sept. 23 explosion in Gaza that killed many – an explosion that Palestinian eyewitnesses and even the Palestinian Authority blame on Hamas.
Media Excuses Palestinian Destruction of Synagogues
As the IDF left the Gaza Strip, ending the Israeli presence there, Palestinians looted, burned and destroyed the synagogues left behind. One can only imagine the international outcry had Israelis destroyed even one deserted Muslim mosque, but here much of the media, justified the rampaging and turned the tables to criticize Israel.
San Diego Professor Gary Fields’ Orwellian Language
In an Op-Ed, Gary Fields condemns israel using the very propaganda techniques he criticizes
Trouble in Philly with Errors, Imbalance and Editorializing
The Philadelphia Inquirer violates its own ethics code calling for 'accuracy and fairness'
Selective Outcry
Compared with prominent coverage of controversial comments by an Israeli official, relative silence followed a Palestinian announcement that terrorist groups would not be disarmed
Sensational AP Report Misleads on Israeli Raid
On Thursday, Aug. 25, 2005, an Israeli hit-squad opened fire on a group of Palestinians without provocation, killing five in a gangland-style attack. Or, at least, that is what an extremely misleading Associated Press news story would have you believe.