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.

 

Presspectiva Prompts Ha’aretz Correction on EU Plan

Presspectiva, CAMERA's Hebrew affiliate, today prompts Ha'aretz corrections in both English and Hebrew on a Moshe Arens Op-Ed which incorrectly stated that the EU's Horizon 2020 initiative would prohibit funding to Israeli scientists residing over the Green Line.

CiF Watch Prompts Guardian Correction of Livni Quote

CiF Watch, a CAMERA affiliate, has prompted a Guardian correction of an Op-Ed in which Michael Brull truncated a quote by Tzipi Livni, misrepresenting her description of the Palestinian view on settlements as her own view.

NYT Corrects: Israel Does Not Advance 3,500 New Settlements

In the first media correction prompted by CAMERA's Israel office since this week's opening of its Jerusalem hub, the International New York Times corrects an article which had incorrectly reported that Israel advances plans for 3,500 new settlements.

Ha’aretz on Prisoners: A Correction, and An Error

Following communication from CAMERA, Ha'aretz today corrects an article which had downgraded the life sentences of Palestinian prisoners. But a page-one photo caption also today whitewashes the murders carried out by the prisoners.

CiF Watch Prompts Telegraph Correction on Western Wall

CiF Watch, a CAMERA affiliate, has prompted a correction on a Telegraph article which had incorrectly identified the Western Wall as Judaism's holiest site. The Temple Mount is Judaism's most sacred site.

CAMERA Prompts Ha’aretz Correction on Gaza Imports

CAMERA withdraws a complaint from the Israel Press Council after Ha'aretz corrects an article which had wrongly reported that Israel barred concrete and steel from entering the Gaza Strip for the last six years.

CiF Watch Prompts Correction on Prisoner Sperm Story

CiF Watch, a CAMERA affiliate, has prompted correction of a Guardian article which had downplayed the crime of a Palestinian prisoner whose sperm was reportedly smuggled out of an Israeli jail.

CiF Watch Prompts Correction on Fisk Op-Ed

CiF Watch, a CAMERA affiliate, has prompted a correction on an Independent Op-Ed by Robert Fisk in which he had falsely claimed that Benjamin Netanyahu called Hassan Rouhani an "anti-Semite."

BBC Clarifies: Netanyahu Has Called Abbas Peace Partner

After CAMERA and its affiliate BBC Watch highlighted a falsehood in Lyse Doucet's interview of Shimon Peres, and after a reader filed a complaint with the BBC, the broadcaster appended a correction to their Web site.