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HR Corrections: November 2017
HonestReporting achieved 20 significant corrections in November 2017, including from Google, the Oxford English Dictionary, CNN and the BBC.
Simon Plosker
December 5, 2017
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HonestReporting achieved 20 significant corrections in November 2017, including from Google, the Oxford English Dictionary, CNN and the BBC.
The UK doesn’t recognize a Palestinian state. The Palestinians have a diplomatic mission, not an embassy. So why do media outlets refer to the Palestinian “ambassador?”
The Daily Telegraph removes a reference to the “current government in Tel Aviv” following a complaint from HonestReporting.
HonestReporting crunches the numbers to compare the Israel-related media cultures in Britain and the United States.
An “exclusive” non-story in The Independent about an Israeli teenage girl jailed for refusing IDF military service is rehashed in the Daily Telegraph minus the nuances in the original.
“Palestine” is the fastest growing tourism destination of 2017 so far. So why did the Telegraph’s use a photo of the Temple Mount to illustrate this? HonestReporting gets the correction.
The Daily Telegraph erroneously states that Tel Aviv is Israel’s capital. HonestReporting gets the correction.
The Mail Online and Daily Telegraph make a mess of covering a fatal Israeli bus crash in the West Bank.
The Telegraph’s headline mistakenly states that the Israeli Ambassador to the UK was caught on film in an Al Jazeera sting operation. HonestReporting gets the correction.
A Daily Telegraph feature on the movies of Warren Beatty erroneously states that Israel bombed Morocco in the 1980s. HR gets the correction.
Do Israeli lives matter to Australia’s Daily Telegraph? Not if you judge the newspaper’s front page.
A Palestinian terror attack on the Sarona market in Tel Aviv prompts some serious media fails in the immediate aftermath.
Israel’s doing a very fine job of caring for its UNESCO Heritage Sites, thank you
The Telegraph changes its headline that suggested that Israel’s planned security fence on its Jordan border was aimed at keeping Syrian refugees out.
A photo feature in the Telegraph on “The world’s most beautiful mosques” places the Al-Aqsa Mosque in “Jerusalem, Palestine.”
The Daily Telegraph removes a timeline that erroneously attributed the death of an Israeli teen kidnapped by Hamas, to “live IDF fire.”
The Daily Telegraph portrays an IDF soldier imprisoned for breaking army regulations as a free speech martyr as a result of critical comments he made on TV.
Why is a photo of graffiti and swastikas in a southern Israeli city used by the Daily Telegraph to illustrate an analysis of Israel-Hezbollah tensions?
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