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BBC, Israel, and Another Olympic Asterisk
The BBC’s Israeli Olympic page is getting dumb and dumber. The country’s size is now qualified. It used to say But now it says If only the Beeb were equally vigorous about putting a similar...
Tel Aviv Mayor Tells the Media His City is Cool — but not Israel’s Capital
Following The Guardian’s statement that Tel Aviv is the capital of Israel and the UK Press Complaints Commission’s ruling in The Guardian’s favor, who better to ask whether Tel Aviv is...
Why Did AP Believe The “Gaza Siege” Ended?
Everything you need to know about today’s coverage of Israel and the Mideast. Join the Israel Daily News Stream on Facebook. Today’s Top Stories: 1. Mahmoud Abbas is once again pushing a unilateral...
The Globe & Mail’s Capital Offense
Tel Aviv: Not Israel's capital It annoys the heck out of me when newspapers (in this case, the Globe & Mail) drop Tel Aviv’s name as if it were Israel’s capital city. Tel Aviv, however,...
The Guardian’s “Capital” Offense
What a stupid correction this is. On Friday, The Guardian posted a photo — Jerusalem light rail passengers observing a national moment of silence for the Holocaust. The problem? The original caption...
Season’s Greetings From the Israel Bashers
Journalists descend on Bethlehem in order to politicize Christmas.
Razing Awareness for Home Demolitions
Which of the following three articles from today’s papers strikes you as least newsworthy? Kenya Demolitions: We are all to blame for corruption (homes and businesses illegally built on airport land) Cleveland...
Media Cheat Sheet 11/08/2011
Welcome to everyone reading my cheat sheet for the first time. I used to write an in-house digest for the HonestReporting staff assessing the news, trends in coverage and other items of interest. We decided...
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...



