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.
For the second time since August, CAMERA prompts an AP correction after the wire service falsely reported that Hamas' Ministry of Health most Gaza fatalities are women and children. The English and Spanish corrections appeared in more than 100 media outlets.
Writing in JNS, CAMERA's Tamar Sternthal examines the implications of the fact that AP has twice corrected in the last two months after falsely reporting that the Hamas-run Ministry of Health in Gaza has found most fatalities are women and children.
CAMERA prompts a social media uproar and a New York Times Editor's Note after the Gray Lady reported that "Israelis still largely view themselves as the victims of Oct. 7," wording which suggests that Israelis were not, in fact, the victims of Hamas' massacre, the worst slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust.
Reuters corrects after wrongly reporting that the slain husband of a Turmus Ayya widow who met with Amb. Mike Huckabee was a U.S. citizen killed by settlers. The news agency has declined to clarify, however, that Omar Jabaran Qattin was a verified Hamas operative.
Demonstrating a marked absence of journalistic zeal, host and editor of the Boston Globe’s editorial page, James Dao, utterly failed to challenge Omer Bartov as he fabricated quotes, uttered falsities, and relied on conjecture bordering on the absurd.
CAMERA prompted MS NOW to remove its claim that Israelis had “stormed” Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. Still, MS NOW declined to name the Temple Mount as the holiest site in the world for the Jewish people, despite nearly every other outlet acknowledging that fact.
CAMERA prompts an Associated Press correction of the false claim that Hamas' Ministry of Health in Gaza "says women and children make up most of the dead." In fact, even the Hamas ministry says less than half are women and children. Scores of news outlets republish AP's correction.
The Independent upheld our complaint and corrected several egregious errors in a story initially claiming Jews were "storming" the Temple Mount/al-Aqsa Mosque Compound, which they described as a uniquely Muslim holy site
CAMERA noted that The New York Times met its standards with regard to source attribution for claimed Israeli casualties, but not for Lebanese casualties. The New York Times amended its coverage as a result.
