David M. Litman is the U.S. Media Research Manager at the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (CAMERA), where he covers anti-Israel bias in the media. Previously, David worked at an independent watchdog organization focused on anti-Israel bias, international law, and human rights issues in the United Nations and international courts. David graduated magna cum laude from Case Western Reserve School of Law and holds a BA in International Studies.
Trust in journalism is at an all-time low because journalists are debasing their own noble profession, CAMERA's David Litman writes at JNS. Journalists should be the first to challenge the dishonesty in Nicholas Kristof's piece alleging systemic sexual abuse of Palestinian prisoners.
The New York Times has published a lot of biased journalism over the years. We at CAMERA know this plenty well. But the egregiousness of Kristof’s column shocks even us. Retracting it is necessary, but far from sufficient. Kristof has demonstrated he has no business being employed in the world of journalism. His editors have similarly demonstrated their complete lack of fitness for their roles.
Journalists are inverting reality by creating a perception of illegitimacy against the U.S. and Israel by associating the word “war crimes” with their actions, while simultaneously creating a perception of legitimacy, by way of omission, for the Iranian regime even as it regularly lobs cluster munitions at densely populated cities.
Western outlets who find Joe Kent too toxic for an open embrace – but share his anti-Israel fixation – have reported on his resignation in a way that echoes his toxic reasoning.
There is no one true interpretation of what international law mandates, regardless of what “experts” at outlets from the Washington Post to the New York Times to Deutsche Welle claim.
In its obituary for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Wall Street Journal largely omitted from the record his regime’s role in fueling conflicts across the region, engaging in and supporting acts of terror across the world, and perhaps most egregiously, the regime’s repression of Iranian women.
CAMERA US media research manager David M. Litman joined the Indian news network WION to discuss developments in Operations Epic Fury and Roaring Lion and where things may go from here.
There may be many legitimate reasons to criticize the Israeli Cabinet decisions. But there are also legitimate reasons to support those decisions – reasons media outlets like CNN and the New York Times omitted. Media consumers deserve the facts and the context, not journalists deciding for them what to think.
