Responsible coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict demands that claims by political actors be subjected to rigorous scrutiny. Vox, by allowing inaccurate claims to stand unchallenged, failed its audience.
The Norwegian Refugee Council's Communications Adviser, Shaina Low, blamed Israel exclusively for all suffering in Gaza since the war began while lamenting the lack of sufficient aid, including dual-use items such as concrete, cement, rebar, and lubricant oil.
In an article analyzing the origin and spread of viral misinformation, The New York Times was unable to see how it has participated in the dangerous phenomenon.
A New York Times op-ed claims the recent wars in the Middle East demonstrate "the new physics of power." But these allegedly new physics are actually quite old.
A CAMERA Espanol study of EFE's post-Oct. 7 coverage finds anti-Israel libels -- from organ harvesting, to snipers targeting infants and the bombing of the Minab girls' school in Iran -- levelling up as supposedly legitimate news. Meanwhile, Hamas and Hezbollah violence melts away as episodic or nonexistent background noise.
Abusing journalism's sacred quotation marks, media outlets falsely depict Itamar Ben-Gvir's call for the killing of tens of terrorists daily into a call for the killing of tens of "people," "Gazans" or "Palestinians." No, the terms aren't interchangeable, and no, reporters aren't free to select other people's words at will.
CAMERA prompts an Associated Press correction of the false claim that Hamas' Ministry of Health in Gaza "says women and children make up most of the dead." In fact, even the Hamas ministry says less than half are women and children. Scores of news outlets republish AP's correction.
Calling Israel’s rejection of Trump’s Gaza proposal an 'anti-peace' move frames security concerns as unimportant and oversimplifies 'peace' as a concept that means the same thing to everyone.
Multiple levels of hearsay now suffices for reporting, according to NPR. In lowering its standards, it repeated false statistics that it did not bother to fact-check.
