April 4, 2005

Ha’aretz Inaccurately Reports on Garbage Dump

David Ratner's prominent article today ("Israel to dump 10,000 tons of garbage a month in the West Bank") is rife with serious factual errors, primarily false allegations against Israel. For instance, he falsely claims that Palestinians will not be permitted to make use of the new Kedumim waste site, while a contract requires the administrators to service both Israelis and Palestinians.
April 4, 2005

NPR Wants it Both Ways

NPR News has the staff and financial wherewithal to produce coverage meeting journalism's highest standards, according to its president. Since its Arab-Israeli reporting chronically fails to do so, Congress and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting ought to find out why.
March 30, 2005

How Israel Lost: Flippant Book by Former Reporter Aims Darts at Israel

How Israel Lost: The Four Questions
By Richard Ben Cramer
Simon & Schuster, 2004
Richard Ben Cramer's latest book disappoints on all counts. Far from changing the boundaries of discussion, it contains neither an original thesis nor trenchant argument. Instead, the complexities of the Israeli-Palestinian situation are reduced to the hackneyed superficialities of Israel's detractors.
March 29, 2005

NPR Ombudsman Dodges Listener Query

NPR describes ombudsman Jeffrey Dvorkin as "the public's representative to National Public Radio, serving as an independent source of information, explanation, amplification and analysis for the public regarding NPR's programming." But when an NPR listener contacted the ombudsman on March 21, 2005 for comment on a column by CAMERA Director Andrea Levin about NPR's continuing tilt toward Arab positions, he was met with obfuscation and insults.
March 21, 2005

Another NPR Winter of Distortion

As sure as the calendar moves toward spring, National Public Radio stations turn to a fresh season of fund-raising. For listeners wondering about the status of the network's longstanding bias against Israel, a snapshot of coverage in early 2005 offers few signs of positive change. Instead, the tilt toward Arab positions continues. Sloppiness with factual precision is still commonplace.
March 21, 2005

BBC and Ha’aretz Journalist Whitewash Palestinian Incitement

Akiva Eldar, the Ha'aretz journalist who recently transformed Palestinian propagandist Hanan Ashrawi into the "Enemy of Incitement," weighs in again on Palestinian incitement. In a BBC interview March 15, he repeats the old canard that the offending Palestinian texts are outdated Jordanian and Egyptian books, and concludes that anyway, "the focus on incitement is very wrong and it's in a way irrelevant as long as we are fighting."
March 20, 2005

Associated Press Downplays Terror

The Associated Press once again downplays Palestinian terror. A March 18, 2004 ;article by Mohammed Daraghmeh not only equates Israeli demonstrators with Palestinian terrorists, but minimizes the activities of  those terrorists.