Browsing Tag Jerusalem

HonestReporting Forces Guardian to Retract Claim That Tel Aviv is Capital of Israel

HonestReporting achieves a significant success.

August 8, 2012 11:33 By : 110 Comments

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...

July 30, 2012 10:56 By : 4 Comments

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...

July 24, 2012 14:33 By : 4 Comments

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...

July 23, 2012 18:22 By : 7 Comments

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,...

June 26, 2012 14:34 By : 1 Comment

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...

April 23, 2012 13:53 By : 28 Comments

Season’s Greetings From the Israel Bashers

Journalists descend on Bethlehem in order to politicize Christmas.

December 27, 2011 13:05 By : 18 Comments

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...

December 6, 2011 12:25 By : 2 Comments

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...

November 8, 2011 16:55 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