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.
CAMERA’s intervention prompts a sweeping correction from the Associated Press, leading over 80 media outlets to retract an inflated Gaza death toll figure.
More than 80 North American news outlets publish an Associated Press correction prompted by CAMERA after the wire service falsely reported that the civilian death toll in the Gaza Strip has exceeded 40,000. The scores of corrections are the most that CAMERA has prompted at once from a single wire service story.
Channeling the Qatari-run Al Jazeera and the government-controlled Turkish Anadolu Agency, Forbes falsely reports that Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir and hundreds joining him entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.
In response to communication from CAMERA, UPI and McClatchy commendably remove an erroneous reference to hostages held in captivity in the Gaza Strip as "prisoners." The hostages have not committed crimes, are not being held lawfully, and are not awaiting trial.
After reporting the fiction of "Israel's blanket blockade of food" entering Gaza, The New York Times' correction conceals the huge quantity of food which has entered the territory, citing "some trucks" as opposed to an actual sum.
The growing, undeniable tilt against Israel in Wall Street Journal news coverage since the October 7 Hamas attack on the Jewish state appears connected to a change in focus under a new Editor-in-Chief, Emma Tucker. The Journal now routinely terms all of the West Bank "Palestinian territory" -- an error previously corrected in the Journal's own pages.
Times of Israel corrects after misidentifying Abdallah Aljamal, a Gaza resident who held three Israeli hostages, as a contributor at Palestine Chronicle. In fact, as correspondent, he had a more significant role at the U.S.-based pro-Hamas outlet.
In dozens of stories, AP committed one of the most egregious journalistic transgressions: misattributing a false quote to a source. Tamar Sternthal explains in Times of Israel how a bogus ICJ quote alleging “plausible risk of genocide” in Gaza found its way into AP reporting, and how CAMERA put an end to it.
The Los Angeles Times has found a culprit for the violent attacks targeting Los Angeles Jews outside the Adas Torah Synagogue. And, no, it's not the pro-terror organization which organized the violent synagogue siege. UPDATE: LA Times corrects on 'Palestinian land,' legality of settlements.
After a vague "clarification," the article is still misleading as to the frequency of the use of this weapon. Military expert John Spencer called it "a very commonly used tool."
