Media Corrections

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.

 

The Temple, the Times and the BDS Supporter

New York TimesAfter deadly Palestinian attacks against Israelis triggered by false claims that Israel is threatening the al-Aqsa Mosque, the New York Times published a mostly mangled history of the situation and of the Temple Mount, relying in part on an "expert" who is also an outspoken supporter of boycotting Israel.

LA Times Corrects Caption That Downplayed Har Nof Atrocity

An erroneous Los Angeles Times caption minimized Ghassan Abu Jamal's heinous 2014 crime as "attacking a religious school," ignoring his multiple murder victims in Har Nof. The amended caption notes he killed five Israelis in a Jerusalem synagogue.

Who Is Assailant? Who Is Victim? Times of Israel Corrects Headline

CAMERA prompts correction of a Times of Israel headline which confounded the assailant with the victim. A Palestinian mob threw rocks at the car of an Israeli woman and tried to drag her from the vehicle. Israeli bystanders shot one of her attackers.

AFP Corrects Caption: Bombed Gaza Site Was Hamas Base

CAMERA's Israel office prompts correction today of an AFP photo caption which omitted the essential fact that the pictured Gaza site, bombed during an Israeli airstrike, was a Hamas training camp.

Newsweek Corrects: Israeli Police Did Not Enter Mosque

 In a correction of a headline which falsely states that Israeli troops "storm Jerusalem's Al Aqsa Mosque," Newsweek editors make clear that the police did not enter the mosque. Meanwhile, The New York Times has yet to correct the identical falsehood.

CNN Corrects: Scott Walker Met with Isaac (not Werner) Herzog

CAMERA prompts correction of CNN's article today which claimed that presidential hopeful Scott Walker met with Werner Herzog on the Iran deal. Walker met with Israeli opposition leader Isaac Herzog, not German film director Werner.