UPDATE 1:55 pm: See HonestReporting UK's response to the Scotsman: Egyptian Shark Attack: Jews Not Jaws? * * * Newspapers are always treating wire articles as pulp content. It's accepted practice...
Shattered Lens: Part 2 – Abusing Sport for Propaganda
In the second part of our major study of of how Reuters, AP and AFP/Getty misuse imagery to distort coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, we look at how the wire services cynically exploited the...
Wikileaks: Al Jazeera a ‘Bargaining Tool’ of Qatari Foreign Policy
Here's a State Dept cable in The Guardian suggesting that Al Jazeera is a tool of the Qatari government. We expect the trend in favor of using Al Jazeera as an informal tool of GOQ foreign policy...
The Observer Gets With The Program . . .
The Observer boggles the mind. Describing Iran's nuclear weapons drive as an "energy programme" is as myopic as calling the Wikileaks info dump a "crowdsourcing event." Spoiler...
2 Lessons from Hamas’s Facebook Fail
HonestReporting’s social media editor, Alex Margolin, contributes occasional posts on social media issues. He oversees HonestReporting on Facebook. Last week, Hamas (or someone claiming to speak...
PA ‘Study’ Denying Jewish Ties to Western Wall Back Online
The PA "study" denying Jewish ties to the Western Wall is back online — on the website of the authority's official Wafa News agency. The Jerusalem Post's Khaled Abu Toameh explains: By...
Helen’s Being Helen Again
Yes, she "apologized" for saying that Jews should "get the hell out of Palestine" and to Go home . . . To Poland, Germany…and America and everywhere else." But Helen Thomas proved...
Shattered Lens – Photo Bias Exposed in the Wire Services
Images have unprecedented power to mold public opinion. And the three international wire services – AP, Reuters, and AFP/Getty Images — have a central role in presenting images from Israel...
Julian Assange, Zionist Neocon?
UPDATE 10:42 a.m: The world’s really turned upside down. Israeli ambassador Ron Prosor got a standing ovation– at Oxford Union? * * * In an interview with Time, Julian Assange uses Benjamin...
Quebec Newspaper Calls for Boycott of Israel
p>A Quebec newspaper promotes a long list of malicious lies about Israel while calling for a boycott of the Jewish State. See HonestReporting Canada's latest media critique: Quebec Newspaper Calls...
