Tag Archive for media bias

REPORT: Incredible Compilation Detailing Media’s Egregious Misrepresentations About Israel

Former AP reporter demonstrates how major western media outlets seek to display the ‘Jews of Israel, more than any other people on earth, as examples of moral failure.’

 

During the Gaza war this summer, it became clear that one of the most important aspects of the media-saturated conflict between Jews and Arabs is also the least covered: the press itself. The Western press has become less an observer of this conflict than an actor in it, a role with consequences for the millions of people trying to comprehend current events, including policymakers who depend on journalistic accounts to understand a region where they consistently seek, and fail, to productively intervene.

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CNN apologizes for “mistake”: Being caught doing unprofessional, bias & inaccurate reporting

 

1st  “mistake”: CNN ran a headline stating that 4 Israelis and 2 Palestinians killed in Jerusalem attack, equating the savages to their victims.
2nd  “mistake”: Then in separate incident, CNN coverage had “Deadly attack on Jerusalem mosque” superimposed on top of coverage.

By HERB KEINON, JPOST.COM STAFF

 

CNN apologized Tuesday night for mistakes in its coverage of the earlier terror attack on a synagogue in Jerusalem.

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CNN’s initial report on Jerusalem terror attack ‏- Photo:screenshot

CNN ran a ticker that read, “4 Israelis, 2 Palestinians dead in Jerusalem,” failing to note that the two Palestinians were the terrorists.

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Politicians, the UN’s & Mainstream Media’s Egregious Misrepresentations in the Gaza Conflict

 

Getting the law right on the Israel-Gaza conflict is not the problem. Like most laws, it’s quite clear. Unfortunately, most of the journalists covering the current conflict are either threatened/intimidated from reporting the truth, emotionally invested in one side or the other, or will simply explain away Hamas’ daily war-crimes as rightful ‘resistance’.

By Laurie R. Blank, THE HILL/contributor

 

International law has quite a lot to say about the latest violence that has flared up between Israel and Hamas. So do the media. Unfortunately, they rarely match, leading to unfortunate — and sometimes egregious — misrepresentations. In an age when both real and perceived violations of international law have a substantial effect on the legitimacy of state action, getting it wrong is way more than just bad journalism. Continue Reading »

Media Misquotes Hamas to Demonize Israel

International community wants so badly to blame Israel as the obstacle to peace, that mainstream media is willing to overtly misquote Hamas.

By Ryan Jones

 

Diplomats, media and peace activists apparently eager to paint Israel as the main obstacle to peace have been quick to publish and point to numerous reports that Hamas is being encouraged and has even agreed to recognize Israel as part of its unity agreement with the Palestinian Authority.

Never Mind, No One Told Hamas to Recognize Israel...

Hamas protesters – Israel Today

It would seem that those reports were either premature or purposely embellished, and that those who latched on to them should have first done some rudimentary fact-checking. Continue Reading »

Top Palestinian negotiator the top propagandist, master of fiction & doublespeak

PA negotiator Erekat, told a diplomatic gathering that his tribe had been residents of Jericho thousands of years before the arrival of Joshua Ben Nun.

The Palestinian leadership relies on the thirst of the int’l mainstream media to take seriously any wild, baseless Palestinian distortion when criticizing Israel and to buy into any artificial claim uttered by the Palestinian leadership.

By Israel Today Staff

 

There are many competing claims at play in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but the simple question of who was here first, as childish as it might sound, remains central to the contest.

That is precisely why, in addition to leveling all sorts of other accusations at Israel, the Palestinian Authority is engaged in an effort to invent a new historical narrative that puts the Palestinians in the land long before the Hebrews ever arrived from Egypt. Continue Reading »

Reuters News Headline Falsely Accuses Israel of Threatening Lebanese Civilians

Reuters’ classic anti-Israel bias in it’s news is adequately demonstrated in this purposely misleading and erroneous headline.

By RH / CAMERA

 

A Reuters article about an Israeli military general’s warning to Hezbollah over its establishment of thousands of terrorist bases within residential buildings was published under the following erroneous headline:

 

 

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Reuters Headline screenshot

 

In fact, the article makes clear that Israel did not threaten any Lebanese civilians. Rather, Israel’s Air Force chief, Major General Amir Eshel called out Hezbollah for establishing thousands of terrorist bases within residential buildings and warned that the Israeli army would not be deterred from retaliating for attacks launched from within these quarters. Continue Reading »

U.S. media watchdog protests NY Times’ anti-Israel media coverage

 

CAMERA places billboard across The New York Times’ offices in downtown N.Y.C. calling on the paper to stop its bias reporting & slanted commentary against Israel.

 

 

Boston-based American media watchdog group CAMERA (Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America) launched a campaign against The New York Times for what it claims is the paper’s biased coverage of Israel, the PRNewswire reported.

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Photo courtesy: CAMERA (Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America) website

The billboard headline reads: “Would A Great Newspaper Slant The News Against Israel? The New York Times Does.” A short list enumerates criticism. Continue Reading »

Haaretz News Writer ‘Wins’ the 2012 Booby Prize for ‘Dishonest Reporting’

HonestReporting, which tracks int’l media bias against Israel, awards Israel’s newspaper Haaretz writer Gideon Levy with the “Dishonest Reporting Prize” for 2012.

By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

 

The HonestReporting website, which tracks media bias against Israel, awards Haaretz writer Gideon Levy the “Dishonest Reporting Prize” for 2012.

The media watch site explained that although it traditionally cites international media for faulty reporting, it cited Levy as the worst offender this year because foreign media often base their reports on Haaretz, the most popular left-wing newspaper in Israel.

The newspaper  denies it is anti-religious or anti-Zionist, but only the most left-wing liberals, and non-Israelis who do not really know the country, could view it otherwise. Continue Reading »

Leading US media say Israel wining battles, Hamas wins war

Where as Israel’s operation is apparently strengthening Hamas’ following, leading US media outlets say Israel’s military victory may further decrease Mahmoud Abbas’ power

 They say the operation is also distracting attention from the crisis in Syria

By Yitzhak Benhorin

 

While Israel‘s day-to-day life is being disrupted by rockets and sirens, some US media outlets have already crowned Hamas as the winner of the current conflict.

Hamas politburo chief Mashaal. Current Palestinian leader Photo: EPA

Hamas politburo chief Mashaal. Current Palestinian leader – Photo: EPA

Veteran diplomat Aaron Miller wrote in the Foreign Policy magazine that Hamas won the war and “it doesn’t really matter if Israel wins the battle. Continue Reading »