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Why is the struggle for media fairness so important? The media sways public opinion, which directly affects foreign policy towards Israel. HonestReporting was formed in 2000 to respond to unfair coverage...

Why is the struggle for media fairness so important? The media sways public opinion, which directly affects foreign policy towards Israel. HonestReporting was formed in 2000 to respond to unfair coverage...

View the first in a series of ‘Media Circus’ titles that might open the eyes of others through an alternative satirical approach.

A commentary piece by an academic published in the Guardian contends that Israel has effectively managed to “spin” its messaging to subvert the media’s coverage of the conflict in Israel’s favor.

I admit it. I never cared if I was consistent in the way I spelled the name of Libya’s dictator. I got away with it for years. After all, transliterating Arab names into English with a consistent...

Time for a reality check: David Frum (via Jeffrey Goldberg) worries — with good reason — that don’t understand Egypt as well as we think: 80 million people in the country. 17 million...

Why does the founder of Hezbollah deserve a fawning obituary in Time’s review of the year? What is it about the late  Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlalah that makes some media lose all sense...

The Scotsman deliberately gives credibility to a ridiculous conspiracy theory charging Mossad with causing Sinai shark attacks.

How the wire services cynically exploited the 2010 soccer World Cup to produce negative images of Israel.

A snapshot of how Reuters, AP and AFP/Getty misuse imagery to distort coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.