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 prompts corrections by Agence France-Presse and Ynet which had falsely claimed that Israel hit a United Nations school in Gaza two years ago during Operation Cast Lead, killing 43.
Following communication with CAMERA staff, the Los Angeles Times promptly corrected an architecture exhibit review which wrongly reported that Israel still occupies the Gaza Strip. The error and correction follow:
CAMERA's Israel staff prompted a rare correction in Ha'aretz's English print edition today of an Op-Ed that had falsely stated that Palestinians are residing legally in the Abu Na'eb home in Silwan. The Washington Post published a correction on what is Judaism's holiest site. The Associated Press published a clarification after having used language that dramatically inflated the number of Palestinian refugees who took refuge in Jordan. The Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz corrected a misleading headline after Presspectiva, CAMERA's sister organization in Israel, brought the problem to the attention of editors. The Boston Globe and columnist H.D.S. Greenway have corrected the erroneous claim that Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat died while in a bunker under Israeli siege.
In a familiar error, the Baltimore Sun lumped Israel with the Palestinians in footdragging on direct talks.
CAMERA's Israeli staff prompts an unprecedent correction today at Ha'aretz. Akiva Eldar corrects his false claim that a Hebrew University poll found that 21 percent of settlers endorse the "use of arms" to resist settlement evacuations. CAMERA staff elicited corrections in the New York Times and in the International Herald Tribune concerning the number of Palestinian refugees from the 1948 and 1967 wars. An article appearing in both papers grossly overstated the figure.