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.
After parroting without question demonstrably false Houthi propaganda about an attack on "Israeli military targets," the Associated Press has commendably clarified that the ballistic missile hit an elementary school.
After last week’s “Jew hunt” in Amsterdam, anti-Israel activists rushed to excuse the brutal assaults. If Israelis and Jews across the city were beaten down and kicked while lying defenseless and unconscious, the focus, they insisted, should be on Jewish behavior. The media soon joined in.
Deutsche Welle is the second media outlet in days to correct a headline which had miscast a newly-released misleading and partial UN figure for women and children killed in Gaza (nearly 70 percent of the limited "verified" pool) as relating to the totality of fatalities during the entire war.
UPDATE: The Wall Street Journal corrects an Oct. 26 photo caption which had erased the Hebrew message on a Tehran billboard stating: "Israel should be wiped off the face of the earth and that is just the beginning of the story."
VOA corrects a headline which had miscast a newly-released misleading and partial UN figure for women and children killed in Gaza (nearly 70 percent of the limited "verified" pool) as relating to the totality of fatalities during the entire war.
After CAMERA prompts a significant correction of AP's absurd assertion that "[i]nternational law gives Palestinian refugees and their descendants the right to return to their homes," several dozens secondary media outlets correct.
The so-called "right of return" has been a fundamental Palestinian demand ever since the initial effort to eliminate the nascent state of Israel failed 76 years ago, but now AP has upgraded the unfulfilled aspiration into international law.
CAMERA prompts corrections in both English and Hebrew after Haaretz wrongly reported that Israeli defense officials had estimated that 300 were killed in the Israeli airstrike which targeted Hassan Nasrallah. In fact, an early Israeli estimated cited 300 casualties (not fatalities) and Lebanese officials cited six fatalities.
In the LA Times, Rabbi Aryeh Cohen castigates the alleged sins of the American Jewish community for "indiscriminately support[ing] the state of Israel, even though in January the International Court of Justice found it plausible that the Israeli government was committing genocide." In fact, that the ICJ in no way determined that Israel is plausibly committing genocide.
CAMERA told NPR editors that, contrary to their headline, both Israel and the Lebanese citizens heard from in the segment refer to Israeli strikes on Hezbollah, not strikes "targeting civilians."
