Accuracy and accountability are among the most important tenets of journalism. In combination, they mean media organizations are expected to publish or broadcast forthright corrections after sharing inaccurate information. The following corrections are among the many prompted by CAMERA’s communication with reporters and editors.
Despite the fact that Hamas openly acknowledges that some 200 armed combatants holed up in tunnels under Rafah are its fighters, a Reuters' story today called them "civilians." Following correspondence from CAMERA, the wire service pulled the story.
Lesson learned? A CAMERA-prompted AP correction on "Palestine" terminology appearing in an education story reaches more than 30 secondary media outlets.
Along with the "tsunami" of emigration is a flood of Israeli media misreporting including factual errors, misunderstanding of demographic concepts and the failure to provide critical context about various factors contributing to emigration including domestic tensions, economy, security and even the Russia-Ukraine war.
CAMERA prompts correction at Haaretz's English edition after the Israeli daily whitewashed arch-terrorist Marwan Barghouti's responsibility for multiple deadly attacks as "alleged." The improved digital copy now notes the terror leader's convictions for deadly attacks.
In some journalists' looking-glass view, when Palestinians attack Israelis, the ceasefire is not tested and tensions are not roiled. But when Israel dares to respond to the Palestinian attack? It is only at that point, according to this warped depiction, that the tense quiet is shaken and all is no longer well.
With this week's hostage release, CAMERA prompts a series of corrections -- most recently at Time -- after media outlets conflate Israeli and foreign hostages held captive in violation of international law with hardcore convicted Palestinian terrorists and security detainees.
For the second time in four months, and 736 days since Hamas and other terrorists kidnapped 251 Israelis and foreigners, CAMERA prompts correction of Haaretz's mischaracterization of the hostages as prisoners.
CAMERA prompts correction of a Jerusalem Post headline and parts of an article which wrongly referred to Israeli and foreign hostages held by Hamas and other terror organizations in the Gaza Strip as "prisoners."
CAMERA prompts corrections after Haaretz's English edition misidentified the three kidnapped teens as "settlers" and omitted the fact that the young victims were murdered. The paper also corrects the claim that former MK Haneen Zoabi was "arrested." In fact, she was detained a few hours for questioning.
Associated Press' headline had stated as fact "Israel kills 34 people in Gaza," though the claim is unverified. The improved headline, appearing in dozens of media outlets, now qualifies with attribution, stating "health officials say." (Unmentioned, though, is the Hamas-affiliation of said officials.)
