Success: Times Acknowledges Photo Gaffe
April 7, 2008 14:49 by BackSpin EditorHR subscribers secure a correction and acknowledgment. See HonestReporting’s latest communique: Success: Times Acknowledges Photo Gaffe.
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The World According to Newspapers
Is there such thing as over-coverage? In the past, we noted web sites quantifying how much coverage various counties receive. ...
Ira Cohen
5:04 pm
Apr 07, 2008
I have sent many letters to many in the media that wish to demonize Israel. After having just read where Israel stands as the only democratic nation in the Middle East makes me wonder if any one really cares about a democracy – in fact the answer is no. Though we think “democracy” is a positive step in being civilized, we must also realize that this is a Negative in this world…especially in the mideast!
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B.
5:19 pm
Apr 07, 2008
Don’t we pay for the Voice of America? Can’t they broadcast the news, and we certainly don’t need Op-Eds to help us know right from wrong. The newscasts on Voice of America should cover the Islam atrocities.
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Carrol
5:36 pm
Apr 07, 2008
I think it is time for Israel to hire topnotch public relation people to spin, spin, spin around the globe all the good that comes out of Israel. It appears to me that Israel is shy about blowing her horn. She needs to have parades in all countries singing her praises, of which there is no limit. Why aren’t there more attention getting ads and tactics as other countries use?
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albert sherman
5:43 pm
Apr 07, 2008
You were being deluged at more than 500 emails per hour is so simple that even a newspaper writer could figure it out. It’s simply that people are really getting sick and tired of somebody in your editorial offices telling blatant lies.
This is all very plain, simple and uncomplicated. Even a “newsie” can figure it out.
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natania etienne
5:43 pm
Apr 07, 2008
Shocking the results of the poll and no dought CBC is entirely responsable for the bad opinion on Israel
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A. Shalom
6:29 pm
Apr 07, 2008
No success whatsoever.
No single letter was published. The Times complains that it suffered at the hands of a powerful pro israeli site.
No apology for misleading the readers – it is the Arabs who confined into a crowded camp so many people – Palestinian Arabs living in a Palestinian Arab of Jenin 0 with plenty of land around. What were the circumstances of the battle in jenin, the explosives hiddden in the houses by the terrorists – all these factors hidden from the readers, and instead false accusations against Israel created in the minds of the readers.
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Norman Ross
7:30 pm
Apr 07, 2008
Is it any wonder that both the London Times and BBC have a preponderance of Arabists on their staff? I don’t think there is any wonder at all. Both organizations represent leeches on humanity, sucking the intellectual blood from their reader/viewers. I once considered both organizations to be in the top tier of information gathering and reporting.
Not any more.
Like the al-Fayed owner of Harrod’s, they (all three organizations) should be boycotted.
Vote with your pocketbook. Maybe then they will get the message!
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Miriam
8:09 pm
Apr 07, 2008
You did a great job and I congratulate you on getting the admission of error on the part of the Times. Unfortunately polls are only as good as the material used in them. Do they mention where and when the poll was conducted? Or how many people were questioned? It’s very easy to slant a poll, question only those people who will respond in a way the questioner would like to see answers. You know what I mean. It might be nice to ask The Times about the details of this sort used for the poll, and then tell the editors of The Times to publish those facts too. Good Luck on your good work.
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Meir Greiver
9:20 pm
Apr 07, 2008
The “Shattered Dream” photographer’s name, Judah Passow, makes me wonder whether with brethern like him, do we, Jews, really want enemies? Why is it that people of our own People are always ready and willing to serve the cause of our enemies, rather than supporting Israel? Is Truth only Palestinian, does the “objectivity Central Line” pass close to the Palestinians rather than to ours or, right in the middle?
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susan
9:23 pm
Apr 07, 2008
It is time to stop sending aid to any of the coutries who think we are so bad. It is unbelievable.
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Harvey Rogers
12:23 am
Apr 08, 2008
I usually ask the times,”Why did you print this dishonest whatever. They have never answered.
The obvious answer is a hatred of Jewish people. I don’t expect them to admit the truth but it might make some of the Times staff think.
On the other hand their prejudice probably prevents them from thinkink about the answer or it is not a failure to think, but deliberate dishonesty
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Anonymous
12:47 am
Apr 08, 2008
That poll shows why it is needed for groups like Honestreporting to create this myth of an anti Israel media. Why is Israel looked so badly upon? DON’T WORRY IT’S JUST DUE TO MEDIA BIAS! Wipe away the idea that just maybe it’s because Israel’s doing something fundamentally wrong.
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henry tobias
1:04 am
Apr 08, 2008
Don’t let’s get worked up. Look at the list of participating countries. At least 5 Muslim countries. What do we expect? Israel does nothing to counteract bad publicity except cut our English foreign broadcasting. With idiots running Israel, we deserve what we get.
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Ayala Batten
5:04 am
Apr 08, 2008
People only want to believe, what they are brought up to believe, and we know how many Israel haters are around the world. It is hard to fight when you have so many uneducated and radicals in this world. I am dissppointed in the Times and th BBC,but no longer expect the truth from them and other media organizasions like them.
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Sharon Pinsley
6:35 am
Apr 08, 2008
Having worked in Japan for ten weeks a year ago, I can tell you that the nightly news in English was extremely negative and slanted against Israel. Lots of bonding between the movers and shakers of Japan and the Arabic/ Muslim blocs!
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Kim Hanke
9:47 am
Apr 08, 2008
Media bias against Israel and pro-Arab block countries is terribly dishonest & I suspect it is due to the financial interests of those who own pressure or own the press. I have been in Israel during “live” English-language press, right at the site of a mob in protest…that wasn’t there at all.
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roberta
7:28 pm
Apr 08, 2008
israel should be on the top of the list, the only democratic country in the area, if not the world. as it was published before, israel needs the best public relations company to boost israel and to boost israel for a holiday destination.i have always known bbc to be in favour of the arabs. my only regret, leaving israel.
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Phil Mader
1:29 am
Apr 09, 2008
The fact that this poll did not include countries such as the Sudan and Zimbabwe is a shocking revelation of one-sidedness and prejudice, considering how the afore-mentionned governments have produced such huge negativity.
Also, that the the poll would not have underscored that what was being polled was reaction ONLY to a country’s government policy has to challenge the poll’s credibility.
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anivlam
3:53 pm
Apr 09, 2008
Israel is not only a victim of the Arab world, but also a victim of its own success as a thriving democracy in spite of the evil surrounding her! We tend to boast of its tech. and other achievements on the one hand and the Arabs blame her for their self-inflicted miseries on the other. It has nothing to do with democracy, but everything to do with jealousy. Israel needs to project more the successful social integration of its multicultural mix of peoples living in this tiny nation.
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NEIL PRITIKIN
4:26 pm
Apr 09, 2008
IT SEEMS THE MOST POWERFUL WEAPON THAT “ISRAEL” HAS IN ITS ARSENAL IS “OVERLOOKED” WHAT IS IT ??
IREFUTABLE TRUTHS WITH OUT POLITICAL
SPIN
WHAT CONTRIBUTIONS HAS THIS “JEWISH”
STATE PROVIDED TO THE “WORLD” SINCE
MEMBERSHIP IN THE SO CALLED U.N.???
“OIL” IS A GIFT OF NATURE AND CERTAINLY NOT A “FREE”GIFT FROM MY ARAB BROTHERS
IF THIS IS NOT ENOUGH REVIEW JEWISH HISTORY IT ONLY PROVES THEY ARE A GREAT PEOPLE WHO NOW HAVE A “GREAT NATION
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