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.
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.