Vote For This Year’s Dishonest Reporter
November 1, 2010 9:59 by BackSpin EditorNow’s the time to vote for the 2010 Dishonest Reporting Awards — our annual recognition of the year’s most skewed and biased coverage of Israel and the Mideast conflict.
Please choose one of the five nominees below, along with a brief explanation why he/she/it deserves to receive our ignoble award. (You may also nominate someone else not on the list). Then send your submission to action@honestreporting.com
The Nominees (in no particular order)
- BBC: For Panorama denying Jewish ties to Jerusalem, and Jeremy Bowen enjoying tensions with the US.
- Reuters photo desk: Poorly cropping Mavi Marmara photos, and suspicious access to the Lebanon border clash.
- Octavia Nasr: CNN editor fired over sympathy tweet for a dead Hezbollah leader.
- The Lancet: Throwing peer review out the window to skewer Israel.
- Time: For an imbalanced cover story claiming Israelis don't want peace.
We’ll announce the results at the end of year. Due to the volume of mail, we can't acknowledge nominations. See last year's "winners" — and don’t forget to vote!
B Sloan
4:44 pm
Nov 04, 2010
BBC and Time tie in my book, since they are among the most influential. But a top ten of bad press works for me. As a sometime reporter, I particularly abhor biased reporting. It smears all journalists.
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Murray
4:47 pm
Nov 04, 2010
I think that the best way to choose would be to throw them all into a hat and choose all 5.:o)
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victor
7:01 pm
Nov 04, 2010
panorama! simply becose its the most viewd & cosed the most damege!
BTW i cant find any link to vote!
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Carmel
7:16 pm
Nov 04, 2010
Unfortunately, they are all reprehensible…..however, I choose the Lancet. Although this is no better than the other nominees, this is a supposed-to-be highly reputable medical journal and should,therefore, be “above” political issues.
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K.E.J. Zonneveld
7:50 pm
Nov 04, 2010
Reuters has my vote: for turning terrorists into peace activists and purposely changing pictures/evidance!
Liar liar, pants on fire!!!!!!
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K.E.J. Zonneveld
7:53 pm
Nov 04, 2010
Difficult choice: they all are all liars!
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Moises Witemberg
8:42 pm
Nov 04, 2010
All of them get first prize. The order is not important. The nazis and Iran should hire all of them as a team to serve as a propaganda machine. All five (plus asnapour) want to change history in order to demonize Israel. Too bad for them…history can not be changed!!.
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Shloim
8:42 pm
Nov 04, 2010
Need an assessment of Haaretz op-eds blaspheming againt Israel and Jews. Wonder if they are not disguised as Jews as their essays are positively in favour of arab terrorism
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Frieda Stangler
9:56 pm
Nov 04, 2010
I nominate 60 Minutes for their segment on the Ground Zero Mosque, which script could have been written by Iman Rauf himself. No hard questions were asked, such as where financing is coming from and how come the Iman has consistenly refused to acknowledge that Hamas is a terrorist organization! Also would vote for Time Magazine. Slanted reporting is expected from the other nominees but Time’s article was a shocking disappointment.
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Barry Paul
10:33 pm
Nov 04, 2010
The BBC should win this year, in a vote of quantity over quality.
The award should be renamed “The Joseph Goebels Award for Excellence in anti-Jewish Propaganda”.
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Al Best
12:28 am
Nov 05, 2010
The Time “reporter” tops the list of propagandists.
Maybe they need other sources of income.
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Adriane
1:36 am
Nov 05, 2010
Octavia Nasr: CNN editor fired over sympathy tweet for a dead Hezbollah leader. Despicable
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Brian Klein
2:46 am
Nov 05, 2010
They all suck but my vote goes for the Time article,
saying that Isreal does not want is like saying that water is not wet. The only thing Isreal hasen’t done is to sign the papers for Palestinian’s.
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Linda Sands
2:46 am
Nov 05, 2010
I believe that both BBC and Reuters should receive the
Most Dishonest Reporting “raspberry”. They are equally baised in their reporting, unconcerned with truth or integrity and they do it all repeatedly!!
Headline them both to recognize them for what they are:
Reporters of unfounded, unresearched and unplausible
stories.
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Judy Chernak
6:15 am
Nov 05, 2010
Reuters, for Mavi Marmara and their general anti-Semitic take on news. I think I’ve written more letters to Reuters even than to BBC, so they get my vote.
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Pieter
6:16 am
Nov 05, 2010
BBC Panorama for denying Jewish ties with Jerusalem
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Josh Basson
10:07 am
Nov 05, 2010
I think Panorama was the most biased that I watched/read however the others were not far behind. The BBC’s overall biase against Israel is endemic and ongoing.
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Tony
12:28 pm
Nov 05, 2010
I vote for “Reuters Photo Desk” report on the Mirmar Flotilla ,”Humanitairian Turkish aid” Ship,, This was the Biggest and Most Flagrent Act of ANTI-SEMITISME and ANTI- ISRAEL sentiment if EVER I saw, One..and one of the most BIASED,Blotched up reporting,
This whole episode was a FARCE and a JOKE,and Disrespect to ALL OTHER TRUE Humaniterian Associations,,All along their reportings and “Findings”,they continued to Lie and spread Anti Israelie sentiments accross the world and of course fueling Arab Propoganda against Israel.
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david
3:13 pm
Nov 05, 2010
David: I nominate Haroun Siddiqui, the Toronto Star’s Jihad Goon to flog Israel.
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lillian loving
6:15 pm
Nov 05, 2010
they all suck … big time!
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