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.
UPDATE: Following CAMERA action, MSN News removed from its platform a fake news story from a Sierra Leone news outlet which had fabricated that several Palestinians died Friday from tear gas inhalation.
After initially elliptically reporting on Hebron Mayor Tayseer Abu Sneineh's crime, The Times of Israel now thorough details his conviction for a deadly attack in which six were murdered, including Americans and a Canadian, and 20 wounded.
CAMERA Arabic puts the breaks on the omnipresent Arabic media formulation falsely casting Tel Aviv as Israel's capital, prompting 17 corrections in two months.
CAMERA prompts English and Arabic corrections after Reuters erroneously characterized all of Israel's Karish gas field as claimed by Lebanon. In fact, Lebanon claimed only a northern portion of the gas field
CAMERA's Israel office prompts correction after Reuters, counter to its own style, referred to a judge's ruling against Ben & Jerry's bid to stop ice cream sales in "Palestine."
AP highlights the fatal shooting of four Palestinian gunmen attacking Israeli troops as a "deadliest episode," even as the news agency downplays the fatalities' violence and terror affiliations. But the murder of three Israelis sitting in a Tel Aviv bar? Until CAMERA intervened, the only thing the wire service found deadly about that incident was the cops' killing of the Palestinian gunman "who attacked a bar."
CAMERA prompts correction of an otherwise informative and thoughtful Christian Science Monitor editorial which had erroneously placed Israel's Karish gas rig in disputed waters. In fact, the Energean rig sits six miles southwest of the maritime boundary claimed by Lebanon.
CAMERA Arabic prompts multiple corrections after Arabic reports in BBC, Deutsche Welle and i24News falsely referred to Jewish communities within Israel's pre-1967 lines as "settlements."
UPDATE: After originally casting Iranian threats to annihilate Israel as nothing more than an Israeli claim, and ignoring the deep skepticism of IAEA and Western powers about a peaceful Iranian nuclear program, Reuters steps back from the journalistic abyss, rectifying the article's initial egregious shortcomings.
