Browsing Tag Harriet Sherwood

A Year of Dishonest Reporting — Why The Guardian Won

Find out why The Guardian won the Dishonest Reporter Award.

December 13, 2011 10:24 By : 49 Comments

Media Cheat Sheet 12/06/2011

Everything you need to know about today’s media coverage of Israel and the Mideast. Fallout continues from a trio of American diplomatic slaps at Israel. The Muslim Brotherhood has to navigate between...

December 6, 2011 18:50 By : 1 Comment

Media Cheat Sheet 11/03/2011

Everything you need to know about today’s media coverage of Israel. Big time speculation of a possible attack on Iran eclipsed the Palestinian statehood push and the new Gaza flotilla. Iran’s...

November 3, 2011 17:52 By : 1 Comment

Media Cheat Sheet 11/02/2011

Everything you need to know about today’s media coverage of Israel. Shortly before publishing today’s cheat sheet, media reports came up of a two-boat flotilla of ships travelling from Turkey...

November 2, 2011 19:35 By : Leave a Comment

West Bank Airplane Exposes Airhead Journo

Harriet Sherwood A chance encounter with a wrecked airplane in the West Bank exposes Harriet Sherwood’s airhead journalism. Her curiousity piqued, The Guardian posted a query to readers of her blog...

October 5, 2011 14:22 By : 1 Comment

Guardian Deliberately Fails to Correct Error

Only yesterday, I caught Guardian correspondent Harriet Sherwood in yet another of her misguided and erroneous descriptions of the Western Wall as “the holiest site in Judaism”, while promoting...

August 25, 2011 10:52 By : 2 Comments

Guardian’s Israel Correspondent Still Clueless

Harriet Sherwood The Guardian’s Harriet Sherwood just keeps demonstrating her gross ignorance of the region that she is meant to be covering. In May we caught her mistakenly claiming that Israel’s...

August 24, 2011 10:33 By : 3 Comments

It’s the Arms Smuggling, Stupid

The Guardian’s Harriet Sherwood had an exciting time with Gaza fishermen who regularly encounter the Israeli navy enforcing a three-mile limit.   Although The Guardian’s been-there done-that,...

July 21, 2011 11:34 By : 2 Comments

The Guardian Politicizes Mideast Peas

Food for thought: Falafel, those deep-fried chick peas served up with pita, tehina, and veggies at restaurants across the Mideast is not an Israeli creation. So why is The Guardian‘s Harriet Sherwood...

July 12, 2011 17:43 By : 1 Comment

Bedouin Schools: Razing, Reading and Writing

The fact that a Bedouin school is in Khan al-Ahmar is illegally built and unsafe is unimportant to The Guardian, compared to the rights of indigenous people to let their kids crawl through sewage pipes...

June 13, 2011 10:49 By : Leave a Comment