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2011 Dishonest Reporting Awards
Our yearly roundup of the worst excesses of the media in 2011.
Media Cheat Sheet 10/10/2011
Commentary • I’m starting off with a great Wall St. Journal staff-ed (click via Google News) about the “Cinderella story” of Daniel Shechtman’s chemistry research: Today, Mr....
Itamar Massacre Followup: BBC Turnaround Improves
Hakim Awad was convicted of murdering Udi and Ruth Fogel, along with three of their children in the Itamar massacre. Almost as notable as the conviction is that the BBC picked up on the story quickly....
Assessing Weekend Coverage
• Two Palestinians, Amjad Awad, 19, and Hakim Awad 18, have confessed to brutally murdering the Fogel family. Haaretz reports that six other people from the Palestinian village of Awarta were arrested...
Louise Bagshawe: Still Waiting For BBC Reply on Fogel Failures
It’s been a few days since Louise Bagshawe asked in the pages of the Daily Telegraph if the BBC really cared about the slaughter of the Fogel family. Certainly ample time for Beeb executives to...
LA Times: Let Philosophers Wrestle With Cycle of Violence
HR readers outraged by the LA Times’s cycle of violence mentality got the paper’s attention. Here’s the editorial staff’s lame response. You can argue forever about who is right...
Melanie Phillips Under Investigation?
Let’s clear the air before the UK press muddies the waters even more. A few days ago, in a blog post titled Armchair Barbarism, Melanie Phillips describes the terrorists responsible for the Itamar...
Itamar Massacre: Canada’s Callous Coverage
Our colleagues at HonestReporting Canada find that the Itamar massacre remains a CBC no-fly zone. CBC Radio has has completely ignored the incident while CBC television featured a misleading 30-second...
Your Daily Dose of Moral Equivalence
This headline in The Guardian suggests real Palestinians were quoted condemning the Itamar massacre. But here’s the extent of the “shock” and “anger” on the Palestinian side...
