Early this month, four Agence France Presse photographers working in the Gaza Strip were named as Pulitzer Prize finalists for their “Breaking News Photography.” But zooming in on two of these individuals – Omar al-Qatta and Bashar Taleb – exposes them as the very picture of broken news photography.
Conflating illegal forced displacement with Israel's temporary evacuation of civilians for their own safety, Deutsche Welle casts Israel's evacuation of Gaza Strip residents from combat areas for their protection as no less than a potential crime against humanity.
As media reports emerge regarding Hamas’ claim that a journalist was killed in an overnight Israeli airstrike, CAMERA reminds the press corps that in 2018 the media-watchdog organization documented that photographer Hassan Eslaiah was an employee of Hamas’ Al Quds TV, and was therefore a Hamas operative, not a journalist.
Maltese authorities have yet to establish that the Conscience is carrying humanitarian aid for the Gaza Strip, but Reuters nevertheless takes the anti-Israel passengers on their unverified word. Meanwhile, Saudi Al-Arabiya reported that Hamas organized the planned voyage.
UPDATE: CAMERA prompts correction at ABC after the network reported as fact a disputed allegation that Israel hit a U.N. facility in Deir Al-Balah, killing a U.N. worker. The amended article acknowledges Israel's denial that it operated in that area.
CAMERA prompts New York Times and Haaretz corrections after both media outlets wrongly reported that Israel's decision to cut electricity to the Gaza Strip impacted a wastewater treatment plant. In fact, the lone affected facility was a desalination plant.
Media critics reveal that "Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone" is essentially a Hamas production, leading to the broadcast's removal, a national outcry and calls for a parliamentary investigation.
As a music magazine, Rolling Stone has no obligation to cover these events at all. Yet it not only chooses to do so, it chooses to do it in a manner that misinforms and misleads its readers. This is the last of a three-part series.
Creating a narrative, absolving Hamas: This is the first of a three-part series examining Rolling Stone’s coverage of the war in Gaza that started on October 7, 2023.
Engaging in vile Oct. 7 denial, France24 "World of the Week" presenter Gavin Lee said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "is the person who triggered the conflict in the first place," as if Hamas' orgy of murder, kinocide, rape, kidnapping, torture and maiming never happened.
