Top 5 Media Fails: The Media War Hall of Shame
November 19, 2012 17:16 by Simon Plosker
As Operation Pillar of Defense continues, here are the Top 5 Media Fails as HonestReporting inaugurates its Hall of Shame.
1. Jon Donnison, BBC
for retweeting a dramatic photo of two children wounded in war without making any effort to verify the photo’s authenticity.
Turns out the children were wounded in Syria and the photo first appeared Oct. 28.
He later apologized for the retweet…
but with the original retweet going out to more than 7,000 followers and receiving nearly 100 retweets of its own, the apology was too little too late to undo the damage.
2. BBC News
for refusing to acknowledge misleading its audience with fake footage of wounded Palestinians.
Almost as soon as Israel launched Operation Pillar of Defense, the Pallywood machine cranked into gear, creating fake images of Palestinians being evacuated after an Israeli strike. The footage appeared on BBC and CNN reports on the fighting.
CNN took steps after the fact to verify the footage with Reuters, which distributed it. And after failing to get a satisfactory answer, removed the footage and issued an apology.
The BBC, however, stood by the footage, claiming that the footage it ran was an edit from a longer reel. The footage that appeared on the site, however, bore all of trademarks of similar attempts to fake footage on the day of the Mohammed al-Dura incident.
3. Clayton Swisher, Al-Jazeera
for tweeting that Palestinian rocket attacks at Israeli civilians were legal under the laws of war.
In fact, if there is one aim to restricting what can and can’t be done during wartime, it is to protect the lives of civilians.
Swisher not only serves as an apologist for Hamas but also turns the concept of war crimes on its head.
It may be too much to expect journalists to accuse either side of war crimes. But to deny it is a step even beyond that.
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martin
4:31 pm
Nov 27, 2012
Norm, we have small but extremely loud vocal froups here. The Board (Jewish organisation mentioned that all Jewry supported Israel. however, one of the groups denied this and said that they did not support Israel’s war on Gaza – their words!!
I wrote to the Jewish Chronicle on this and another matter. I doubt it will be printed as it is too hard on the Jewish establishment, whose leadership is still that of the ghetto, scared to rock the boat, don’t want a backlash against us here etc etc.
The reason the schmendriks write to Jewish/Israeli sites is to vent their frustration. Their complaining letters to their own sites will probably result in a public hanging. Right A Muslim?
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StorminNorm
8:39 pm
Nov 27, 2012
Jews love to Schmooze!!!…For a while I enjoyed dialogues in the Jewish Journal …sometimes we would go at it for days on various Jewish subjects, everything from Israel to Pastrami to Hollywood. All of a sudden you could not go on line immediately, they would “consider” every reply and decide in 24 hours or so …all the fun of the give and take was lost to censorship or some weird FEAR of “causing trouble”???? …What are they afraid of I actually supported most of their views against the “A. Muslim’s” of this world….they just seem to be afraid of making waves…that must of been what it was like in the 1930′s.
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StorminNorm
8:49 pm
Nov 27, 2012
continued…
Not long ago I repeated this story on some blog….When my wife and I arrived at BenGurion on our first trip to Israel in 1977….as we were walking through the airport she started “whispering”…look at the big Jewish flag over there…look at all the signs in Hebrew…look at all the old bubbies in black… I said Why the hell are you whispering? She said I don’t want anyone to hear me…I yelled at her Who’s gonna hear???…they’re all Jews here!!!
It’s Hard to drop the ways of the ghetto…REMEMBER that wonderful feeling when you first arrived in Israel …you feel that for the first time in my life…I’m NOW one of the majority…I’m NOT a minority, I BELONG!!!
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Israel’s Media War « Olive Press
5:52 pm
Nov 27, 2012
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Neil Farbstein
9:14 pm
Dec 17, 2012
You left out a story about the media in America airing broadcasts against Neil Farbstein all the time. I know. I’m Neil Farbstein. They keep on confusing me with lubavitches, they slander my reputation and make death threats too. A lot of them. Some of them even scapegoat me for things. This has been going on a long time. They used to scapegoat me a lot more about (20 years) two decades ago. Sometimes I hear Jews talking like they want to hurt me for being a two state solution person even though I support the right of Jewish people to live in Israel.
I’m seeking interviews and somebody to help me write a book about everything I went through.
I feel its time to give me money and air my story
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Rewarding Islamic Savages — Winds Of Jihad By SheikYerMami
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Nov 28, 2012
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Nov 28, 2012
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Här är de riktiga nyheterna från Gaza och Israel… | Vakna Sverige
6:51 pm
Nov 28, 2012
[...] Försvaret meddelar å andra sidan att en Hamasmissil som avfyrades mot Israel hade slagit ned i Gaza på fredagsmorgonen. Nu säger experter från den palestinska centret för mänskliga rättigheter, som besökte området på lördag att explosionen som dödade Mahmoud Sadallah faktiskt kom från en palestinsk raket. (källa: Honest Reporting: http://honestreporting.com/top-5-media-fails-the-media-war-hall-of-shame/2) [...]
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World Gears Up for Palestinian Statehood Vote | The Conservative Papers
12:40 am
Nov 30, 2012
[...] BBC correspondent Jon Donnison made HonestReporting’s Hall of Shame for retweeting a photo of injured Syrian kids billed as Palestinians injured by Israel. Although he [...]
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Neil Farbstein
5:47 pm
Dec 02, 2012
There is something extremely wrong with the current Administration in Washington. As far as I know Hilary Clinton and Obama failed to condemn Hamas’s leadership for their barbaric comments saying that they were glad that the bus was bombed and that women and children were casualties. There is no sense of outrage about that statement. These times are different from the past when world leaders and opinion makers would have vehemently expressed outrage about their leader and questioned there legitimacy and their rights to govern in the future. Americans concerned about the future of Israel should target obama and Hillary Clinton with letters about their insanely inadequate response. I’m not talking about the bus attack per se as much as their later reactions. They were much too weak and they failed to notice a dramatic change in
Public statements by Hamas.
What would Obama say if terrorists attacked our buses and world leaders from other countries said they were glad it happened? Why the hell don’t they say that was wrong? Very wrong?
I’m talking about a new depraved indifference to human life evidenced by Clinton and the administration’s failure to recognize those statements as much worse and different from other world leaders, the world over.
They should be questioning the legitimacy of their motives since it is obvious they are not bargaining in good faith.
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StorminNorm
8:16 pm
Dec 02, 2012
NOT JUST Barack & Hillary….BUT how about the “Loyal Opposition”??? I didn’t hear anyone object dot just blame the democrats!!!
Actually I would guess no one said anything because the “Uber Rhetoric” spouted constantly in the middle east by the arabs …by now we are used to it!!!
Kvetching ain’t gonna get anything done…we should cut back on the money we keep throwing at them.
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David
5:22 am
Dec 14, 2012
the BBC and Clayton swisher are (like this mel gibbon gibson) ugly dirty puddles of mud, and way not as good as the band of that name hu.
the BBC specially. look at their dino vids. walkin with friggin dinos n beasts. coolly done. tech 1-ay.
“intellectual” / ethical stuff behind it: NADA, FELLAS !
behind bbc: “socialdarwinism”. darwin gets abused and applied to “politics” (massmurder) by neonazi fascists. science then makes funny errors and flip-flops itself a bazillion times worse than any Romney could (he’s mega ok), science flipflops itself along. Monthy Python already had da BBC on their “blacklist”. 
BRAVO to HONESTREPORTING. BEST PLACE A EVA SAW fellas. Yay. Peace n Love 2 all.
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2012 Dishonest Reporting Awards « American Infidels
7:31 pm
Dec 17, 2012
[...] BBC reporter Jon Donnison was touched and retweeted it. However, activists discovered that the photo was actually taken in Syria a month before the war. Donnison tweeted an apology for not carefully verifying the image before sharing it. After the war, at a formal Government Press Office hearing, Donnison was given a warning, while HonestReporting made him the first inductee in the Media War Hall of Shame. [...]
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David
8:50 pm
Dec 17, 2012
After the war, at a formal Government Press Office hearing, Donnison was given a warning
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“AMERICAN INFIDELS”. PHOA. WOW. BOA. EY. uhmm…. BOOOA !!! AHAHA ! goodness gracIOUS !!! ma nose broken ba MUSSIE proHITLER ANTISEMITE MUSSEE FREEKS for ME BEIN A JEW who DOES NOT LET THEM TALK ” HITLER WAS GOOD “.
RUMBALIN in a WORLD this WAY. !!!! ZZ TUP man. God. HASHEM !!! Yea. This wise of sayin it IS good. I would talk around that for like YEARS on this ANTISEMITE yahoo — it IS since beginning 2012. oy my god. “foreign SPIES”, some DOOF low nopower normal AMERICANS call US JEWS. when the JEWS in US congress are declining. Yahoo deleted the entire comment section when i interfered.
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David
9:02 pm
Dec 17, 2012
Feel how American I AM, USA AND Israel. So when I AM a half-USAite by choice, ALL Jews are that now.
Furthermore. And that’s SOME heavy issue. Euro Jewish Media SUPRESSED the info about JEWS having been MURDERED by MUSLIMS.
“WHAT DO YOU THINK THE CARNAGE ON THE STREETS” — said one JEWISH representative in that, some docu. oy vey mir. IS HE CRAZY? what “CARNAGE”. we JEWS don’t DO THAT. comPLETELY outRAGEOUS as a JEW of some ORG to ASSUME that YER OWN BUDS would HURT ANY INNOCENT PEOPLE. only when THEY DA YEA DA MUSSIES how the AMIS now DO call the MUSLIMS, when tHEY come ATTACKING like NEONAZIS, which THEY sometimes, even not unoften, DO, THEN WE HAVE TO PROTECT ourselves- if not ALONE!
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lovezion
3:15 am
Dec 18, 2012
Neil Farbstein, your support of the 2-state will contribute to ending the Jewish State of Israel for ever!!! Is that what you want? THIS is the ONLY thing those palestinians want, and they hang on to this 2-state madness because THIS is what will fulfill their deeply and sick ambitions. Another thing, you won’t be spared having your head cut off just because you go along with the arab muslims and against the true interests of Israel.
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2012 Dishonest Reporting Awards | The Conservative Papers
1:30 pm
Dec 18, 2012
[...] BBC reporter Jon Donnison was touched and retweeted it. However, activists discovered that the photo was actually taken in Syria a month before the war. Donnison tweeted an apology for not carefully verifying the image before sharing it. After the war, at a formal Government Press Office hearing, Donnison was given a warning, while HonestReporting made him the first inductee in the Media War Hall of Shame. [...]
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John
12:15 am
Dec 19, 2012
Don Donnison is one of Bowens team. They are clearly propagandising for the Jihadists to make the ‘news’ inflamatory to Moslems. The BBC does nothing to stop it as its institutionally anti-semitic.
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SamtheShamus
9:58 pm
Jan 28, 2013
Oy vey. Voos ist dezen geschribkeit michigas? As de ganze velt shrite fur alle Yuden zol veren gehargit (epes-az mir zitzen by un boim, az mir behalt sach by un delicatessen, az mir voint unter de shtener ganz nackit, etc. etc. etc.). Az dee imams von alle shteten (nor blavootchkin vie a tzibrochena telephon) nemt arois a groiza messer und zoogt zu alle tzigiboigana vildi menchen, “hear zach tzu, loif arois von danin mosk and vie dee gefinst a Yude (ein second biz 127 yooren alt) shloog zey une and harge alle voos de gefindst!
The ganze schribkeiterin zoll kimin tzu. Dee tzukimin iazoi zay kenne zehen vee alle shtedtel Yuden haben “avec gegehen” und yezt hat dee valdt nicht mena hartz!
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Stormin'Norm
11:44 pm
Jan 28, 2013
OK…SamtheShamus…I would love to spar with you but I don’t have enough years left to translate the Yiddish….can you anglicize it???
Stormin’
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