Journalism does not merely report on the battlefield, the information environment is itself part of the battlefield. Reporters can therefore inadvertently find themselves recruited into the information strategies of parties to a conflict. The BBC’s duty of impartiality consequently requires a battlefield level responsibility to guard against the circulation of propaganda on its online platforms.
Even by the standards we’re used to in the Scottish media, it’s rare, and particularly reprehensible, for a journalist to defend the 2nd Intifada - the four-year campaign of suicide bombings, and other deadly attacks, targeting Jewish civilians at bus stops, cafes and pizza places.
In an article analyzing the origin and spread of viral misinformation, The New York Times was unable to see how it has participated in the dangerous phenomenon.
A New York Times op-ed claims the recent wars in the Middle East demonstrate "the new physics of power." But these allegedly new physics are actually quite old.
Spanish media has contributed greatly to the hostile climate with coverage of the conflict and global geopolitics that demonizes the Jewish state and normalizes the hatred of Jews and Israel, CAMERA's Marcelo Wio writes in JNS.
A CAMERA Espanol study of EFE's post-Oct. 7 coverage finds anti-Israel libels -- from organ harvesting, to snipers targeting infants and the bombing of the Minab girls' school in Iran -- levelling up as supposedly legitimate news. Meanwhile, Hamas and Hezbollah violence melts away as episodic or nonexistent background noise.
Springfield's NBC-affiliate station refused to report opposing viewpoints against a divestment bill being argued in Northampton, deciding for their viewers which side of the story was worth explaining.
Abusing journalism's sacred quotation marks, media outlets falsely depict Itamar Ben-Gvir's call for the killing of tens of terrorists daily into a call for the killing of tens of "people," "Gazans" or "Palestinians." No, the terms aren't interchangeable, and no, reporters aren't free to select other people's words at will.
Hamas' actions on the ground in Gaza are not conducive to a terrorist organization in the process of disarming. But NBC has their readers thinking Israel is still the problem.
