Vote for This Year’s Dishonest Reporter
November 22, 2011 14:09 by Pesach Benson
Now’s the time to vote for the 2011 Dishonest Reporting Awards — our annual recognition of the year’s most skewed and biased coverage of Israel and the Mideast conflict.
Please choose one of the three nominees below, along with a brief explanation why it deserves to receive our ignoble award. (You may also nominate someone else not on the list).
There are three ways to vote:
- Post a comment below
- Post a comment on HonestReporting’s Facebook page
- Send an email to action@honestreporting.com
The Nominees (in no particular order)
LA Times: For a staff-editorial which blamed settlements for the Itamar massacre, in which a three-month old baby, two small children and their parents were brutally murdered.
Reuters: For redefining terror after a fatal Jerusalem bombing.
The Guardian: For it’s very active role in the PaliLeaks affair, Deborah Orr‘s anti-Semitic take on the Gilad Shalit prisoner swap, a staff-editorial misrepresenting the UN’s Goldstone report, and a laundry list of other reasons.
We’ll announce the ignoble “winner” in a few weeks.
For a trip down memory lane, see who HonestReporting readers gave the 2010 award to.
philt
12:06 am
Nov 24, 2011
i always felt the ny times as anti simetic. since wwii.i said their theme of “all the news fit to print”!!
should be changed to “ALL THE NEWS WE CHOOSE TO PRINT”
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Lou VanDelman
12:40 am
Nov 24, 2011
whoever we nominate hates Jews. No matter what the issue they will twist it to form their version. We cannot do anything right in their eyes and the trouble with that is that they have a readership that believes everything that is in print.
We should have printed the real Gaza with its new shopping plazas and apartments and parks, playgrounds and evevry else that makes up the new and modern Gaza. It does not matter if Israel helps by shipping in all kinds of help, the Jew haters will find a way to undermine this humanitarian assistance. I can go on and on, but enough is enough. I vote for all the Jew haters as the most important enemies we have. ( including self hating Jews )
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Alex Broonoff
12:56 am
Nov 24, 2011
The Guardian truly deserves it.
Reuters gets second place for their overall biased reporting on Israel.
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Laura Hulbert
1:03 am
Nov 24, 2011
The Guardian. Who else could top their output?
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Tracey
1:04 am
Nov 24, 2011
I’m with Alex- I reckon The Guardian well deserves this one!
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Larry
2:58 pm
Nov 24, 2011
I do not know the most dishonest reporter but I can tell you without a doubt the most dishonest newspaper being published today. Without question that honor goes to the New York Times. With the Guardian (UK) being the runner up.
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Brent Pudsey
3:38 pm
Nov 24, 2011
I feel that the Guardian newspaper is most deserving of this award as their journalism has been quite biased against Israel.
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patrice
3:51 pm
Nov 24, 2011
Hi
No question Deborah Orr is the winner as far as I am concerned.
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Henry Tobias
5:14 pm
Nov 24, 2011
I think Deborah Orr’s “Chosen People” analogy takes the cake. I could have some fun with her surname but I don’t want to upset gentler souls than myself.
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Zeal for Zion
6:39 pm
Nov 24, 2011
The Guardian as they seem not to care the most.
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Barbara Stone
7:33 pm
Nov 24, 2011
Once again The Guardian wins by a country mile. And lifetime achievement award to Deborah Orr for Anti-Semitism At Its Most Disingenuous, not to mention her mealy-mouth mea culpa, which was just a way of justifying her loathing for Israel and Jews in general. Long may the paper’s circulation continue to sink.
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Mark Stern
12:24 pm
Nov 25, 2011
It is Deborah Orr and the Guardian are the infamous winners in this contest
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Peter Phillips
2:04 pm
Nov 25, 2011
The Guardian is so biased against Israel that if it wasn’t such a serious matter it is laughable. The worst piece this year was undoubtedly by Deborah Orr. However, please do noy confuse anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism as some readers have.
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Sara
11:07 pm
Nov 26, 2011
I think the Guardian “wins” by a landslide! Enough said.
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Sara
11:13 pm
Nov 26, 2011
Sorry, but I must correct you: The Guardian wins for “its very active role in…,” not “it’s very active role in…” Apostrophes do not belong in the word “its” when it refers to belonging to something; “it’s” means it is. I’ve seen this error here before.
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Hawkeye
2:15 am
Nov 27, 2011
No brainer – The Guardian
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Yotam
3:55 am
Nov 27, 2011
The Guardian. They’ve been pretty much the only focus on HR in the last few months because there’s sooooooooo much to say about them.
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P. scg.,
5:04 am
Nov 27, 2011
Without a doubt The Guardian wins that award. Many times over actually.
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Sol
2:41 am
Nov 28, 2011
Although there are numerous anti-Semitic blogs and websites, this vote is reserved for so called legitimate and renowned media outlets. Still we must give “credit where credit is due”, PressTV is accepted in many parts of the world as a legit news source, but by far outweighs any of the above listed with their skewed coverage.
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Darren
2:20 pm
Nov 28, 2011
Guardian all the way!!!!!!!
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