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.
New York Magazine's Intelligencer, which promises "essential reporting and trenchant insight," relocated Ramat Gan from central Israel to Iran. And it blamed Israel, not Iran, for a strike on the Israeli neighborhood in which
On Israel's Memorial Day, CAMERA prompts corrections at dozens of McClatchy news sites after a United Press International wire service article falsely claimed that Israel had started war with Hamas in October 2023.
After CAMERA's intervention, a New York Times headline that had claimed a performance by the singer Kehlani was cancelled due to her support of Palestinians was amended, and now acknowledges that it was because student concerns over her antisemitism.
The Jerusalem Post is to be commended for entirely withdrawing an article which had wrongly reported that Passover hikers passed over the border into Syria. And while Haaretz slightly readjusted its navigational heading, Ynet remains stuck in the mud.
More than a year and a half after multiple foreign intelligence sources ruled out an Israeli airstrike as responsible for the deadly Al-Ahli hospital blast, pointing instead to an errant Palestinian rocket, some media outlets regress into the murky fog of war mode.
CAMERA prompts correction at The Hollywood Reporter after an otherwise informative article absurdly stated: "Israel’s response to the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attacks sparked the ongoing Israeli-Gaza conflict."
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's Israel office has prompted Agence France Presse corrections in both English and French after the news agency grossly inflated Hamas' own claim about the death toll in the Gaza Strip from 436 to 970.
CAMERA prompts correction at CBS after the network grossly underreported the number of hostages kidnapped Oct. 7 as "roughly 100." Hamas and other terrorists kidnapped 251 hostages on Oct. 7.
Erasing the Houthis' foundational call of "Death to America, Death to Israel, Curse on the Jews," Reuters recasts the designated terror group as a movement representing a persecuted minority fighting for its (unspecified) interests.
