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 staff have prompted a Washington Post correction of a photo caption which inaccurately identified the Western Wall as Judaism's holiest site. In fact, the Temple Mount is Judaism's holiest site. Following communication from CAMERA's Presspectiva, Ha'aretz English editors revise an online story which blamed the Israeli army for killing Gazan Mustafa Abu Jarad, despite disputed circumstances. Another article has yet to be corrected.
The Guardian has commendably corrected the false claim that Israel's violated a High Court injunction by evacuating Palestinian protesters from their tent encampment. Why won't Ha'aretz, which boasts "the best English-language journalism in Israel," likewise correct?
CAMERA staff have elicited a correction today at the Los Angeles Times on a report which erroneously stated that Israel removed 25 tents from a Palestinian protest camp. The tents were left untouched. CiF Watch, an affiliate of CAMERA, has prompted an online correction at the Guardian, which had falsely reported that Israel undertook mass arrests of Palestinian demonstrators who had sent up a protest tent camp in the controversial E-1 area. CAMERA staff elicited Christian Science Monitor corrections of an Op-Ed claiming Israel banned construction materials from entering Gaza for years and asserting Israeli control of the Egyptian border with Gaza. After initially issuing only an online clarification regarding an "All Things Considered" broadcast which erred about the import of building materials into Gaza, NPR agreed with CAMERA that an on-air correction was needed. The follow-up was immediate. CAMERA staff elicited a Washington Post correction today on an article which wrongly claimed that Israel banned building materials from entering Gaza for years. The Post is the latest in a string of media outlets to correct. CAMERA staff elicit a Washington Post correction regarding an article which wrongly stated that Fatah's Gaza rally was to celebrate 48 years since its founding. In fact, it's 48 years since Fatah's first armed attack on Israel.