CAMERA’s intervention prompts a sweeping correction from the Associated Press, leading over 80 media outlets to retract an inflated Gaza death toll figure.
More than 80 North American news outlets publish an Associated Press correction prompted by CAMERA after the wire service falsely reported that the civilian death toll in the Gaza Strip has exceeded 40,000. The scores of corrections are the most that CAMERA has prompted at once from a single wire service story.
A recent Washington Post report on efforts to boycott American companies for their ostensible support of Israel is so replete with falsehoods, misleading omissions, and terrorist propaganda that discerning readers would be better off if it were a blank page.
Channeling the Qatari-run Al Jazeera and the government-controlled Turkish Anadolu Agency, Forbes falsely reports that Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir and hundreds joining him entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.
In response to communication from CAMERA, UPI and McClatchy commendably remove an erroneous reference to hostages held in captivity in the Gaza Strip as "prisoners." The hostages have not committed crimes, are not being held lawfully, and are not awaiting trial.
In his memoirs, historian Avi Shlaim joins those who blame Zionists for the dissolution of the Iraq's Jewish community — ignoring, obscuring, and outright falsifying facts to promote the untenable thesis.
After reporting the fiction of "Israel's blanket blockade of food" entering Gaza, The New York Times' correction conceals the huge quantity of food which has entered the territory, citing "some trucks" as opposed to an actual sum.
CNN clearly understands that bad journalism not only does a disservice to its audience, but it also puts innocent civilians in danger. So, what are we to make of the fact that these reporters are knowingly repeating the same mistakes?
Unmoored from facts, AP terms Houthi attacks on international commercial ships as "retaliation" for Israel's war against Hamas, labels Ismail Haniyah a "relative moderate," and affords Hamas more credibility than Israel.