Ha'aretz's Amira Hass yesterday was honored with a prestigious award for her "pursuit of the truth." But her extensive coverage of the Samouni family deaths demonstrates a practice of reporting interviewees' contradictory and discredited claims at face value. 
Scandanavia's largest newspaper printed libels in August charging Israel plunders and trafficks organs from Palestinians — though editor Jan Helin admits they have no evidence for the story. Nevertheless, none of the many factual errors and inventions have been corrected. Instead, the Aftonbladet lies have spread unchecked to Middle East media and Web sites in ugly permutations. 
On the eve of Rosh Hashanah, The Washington Post gave Prof. Stephen Walt a platform to reiterate the anti-Israel conspiracy theory advanced in his 2007 book The Israel Lobby, a belief roundly rejected by many of his colleagues and reviewers. The question is, why? 
The editors of a prominent Catholic magazine, America, have used the Goldstone Report and the Mishnah Torah to charge Israel with war crimes while giving short shrift to the sins of Hamas.
Already months before the Goldstone Commission Report was published, commissioner Desmond Travers had made up his mind that something is rotten, even murderous, in the Israeli psyche. 
Amnesty International's report on Cast Lead accuses Israel of illegally using White Phosphorus in Gaza. Israel has responded to the accusation. 
The Churchwide Assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) passed a balanced resolution about the Arab-Israeli conflict that calls on Lutherans to learn about the perspectives of both Israelis and Palestinians.
The LA Times published an Op-Ed calling for boycott, divestment and and sanctions against Israel by Neve Gordon, a radical Ben Gurion professor and veteran defamer of Israel. 
With the Toronto Star and Time Magazine correcting a hoax quote, and a feature story in the Toronto paper, the falsehood is wiped from the record. (But not all corrections are created equal.)