But they are also aimed at history. If factual news reports on the pager and walkie-talkie attacks are the first rough draft of history, then revisionism by less scrupulous journalists are a malicious attempt at a second draft.
AP's initial misreporting downplayed Hezbollah attacks targeting Israeli civilians and also obscured Hezbollah losses. Hundreds of thousands of Israelis sought shelter from Hezbollah attacks, not thousands. Previous Hezbollah barrages did not mainly aim at military targets. And Hezbollah lost 16 top members -- not just one -- in Friday's Beirut strike.
One allegation. One U.N. investigation into the allegation. But when the allegation goes into the magician’s hat, an altogether separate investigation gets pulled out. It might not be magic. But it’s certainly not journalism of the “highest possible standards.”
As the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah escalates, it’s important that tax-payer funded NPR be clear in every report not only about who the aggressor is, but also who exactly Hezbollah is.
Jewish writers more troubled by a mainstream, pro-Israel British Jewish publication than a global media institution notorious for its pathological hostility to the Jewish state and willingness to trade in anti-Jewish tropes have forfeited the moral high ground.
The Associated Press and Los Angeles Times neglect to correct erroneous reporting that U.S. activist Rachel Corrie was killed while she was protesting a home demolition in the Gaza Strip. Court documents show the bulldozer was clearing brush used in attacks against troops.
When Hamas halved its casualty figures following an Israeli strike on three of its senior leaders most major media outlets followed suit. But CBS News chose to leave readers in the dark.
Francesca Albanese, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, bangs the table as she misrepresents the facts.
In its latest fib about Gaza's fatalities, AFP's farcically attributes Hamas data to the United Nations, laundering the terror organization's numbers as independent and credible.
CAMERA UK and CAMERA Arabic are delighted to have contributed to The Asserson Report, a seminal study exposing BBC's deeply biased coverage of the Israel-Hamas war.
