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.
Josephine Bacon
4:50 pm
Nov 30, 2011
I would like to add another nominee – Jeremy Bowen of the BBC.
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Chaim Boermeester
5:35 pm
Nov 30, 2011
Guardian
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Jacqueline Tolkin
5:36 pm
Nov 30, 2011
Deborah Orr of the Guardian wins hands down.
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Susan Porter
6:07 pm
Nov 30, 2011
The Guardian wins by a mile.
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Nathan
6:18 pm
Nov 30, 2011
My vote goes to The Guardian for a strong effort to oust the BBC as Britain’s Top Israel-hater.
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Eli
6:40 pm
Nov 30, 2011
Three worthy candidates. Given that the Guardian and Reuters are so notorious for their antisemitic screeds and sloppy agenda driven (sic) journalism it seems of dubious value to award either yet another citation, which they doubtless view (perversely) as a badge of honor.
I cast my vote for the nameless staff editorialist at the LA Times. You are entitled to put your opinion in the paper, if you’re prepared to put your name to it.
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Stephen
7:10 pm
Nov 30, 2011
I believe its not a single winner but a tie consisting of: Agence Press France, Reuters, LA Times, NY Times, BBC, The Guardian, NPR, C-SPAN, and both the English and French CBC.
No one news group stands alone. The insidious misrepresentation of fact, rewriting of history, and biased and distorted reporting of on-going events makes all of the above equal winners. Picking one alone is near impossible.
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Judith Ross
7:36 pm
Nov 30, 2011
Guardian but that doesn’t surprise me, as the UK has taken political correctiveness too far, and they should use the grit that helped them through WW II, to tell the Arabs to leave and leave quickly. Oops, I forgot, the Brits need oil and gas!!!
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LUIS FROM MEXICO
8:00 pm
Nov 30, 2011
CAN THERE BE A MULTIPLE TIE???…..I THINK ALL OF THEM MADE ENOUGH MERITS TO WIN AND IT WOULD BE UNFAIR TO LEAVE ONE OUT OF THE MEDALS.
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Manuel, Wilmslow
8:04 pm
Nov 30, 2011
Gosh, really most difficult to seperate these most unworthy organs of propaganda & antiSemitism. If I have to make a choice I would plumb for joint winners being The Guardian & the Beeb. But then, being British and a Mancunian, I am biased towards, I mean against, the city’s once proud & upright journal, The (Manchester) Guardian; those were the days when The Manchester Guardian could be relied upon for unsurpassed honesty & unbiased journalism.
Go on, give the award to The Guardian and the Beeb (including Jeremy Bowen) – they thoroughly deserve the exposure.
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Tatyana Haykin
8:12 pm
Nov 30, 2011
LA Times. Nothing is as shocking as justifying baby-killers.
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Erik
8:31 pm
Nov 30, 2011
I gotta go with The Guardian. By the way, have the still not retracted the bogus article by Suzanne Goldenberg? You know, the one about the ambulances in Lebanon being hit by Israeli missiles in 2006…
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George Siegel
8:46 pm
Nov 30, 2011
The Guardian is most deserving because it shows the greatest and unswerving dedication, the most meticulous attention, to subverting all news and history about Israel.
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Lionel Gaffen
8:57 pm
Nov 30, 2011
The Guardian on general principles, as they have the consistency of continuous anti-semitic coverage.
The La.La Land Times editorial was just sickening; it’s no wonder the creep that wrote it didn’t have the courage to put his name to it.
Reuters has long since ceased being a reliable news agency, since they use local yokels, for the most part, who have their own agenda in countries that are dictatorships, and edit out anything that might be favorable to a democracy, like Israel, for one.
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Dusan Milutinovic
9:25 pm
Nov 30, 2011
As stated earlier, the Guardian is most consistent in not providing the reader with info by which the reader can judge for himself. It wants to provide judgment for the reader and the world in its wholehearted condemnation of Israel and, by extension, all who support Israel. The others are worthy as well, of course, but the Guardian went that one (or two) step(s) further.
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MIchael
9:59 pm
Nov 30, 2011
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.
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Edward Martenfeld
10:54 pm
Nov 30, 2011
They are all despicable as are CBC (Quebec) and other Canadian ?news media. Based on others comments and having personally read some of the articles posted by HR, I nominate The Guardian for this very deserved dishonour.
God Bless Steven Harper and Canada.
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Rainer Merkava
11:20 pm
Nov 30, 2011
All of the above more than deserve dishonest-reporting notifications (I hesitate to even ironically use the word “award” for their hateful, biased smear). But the LA Times really makes the race this year for me.
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Anthony Jacobs
1:26 am
Dec 01, 2011
In a world full of Israel haters, the Guardian stands head and shoulders above all but the BBC.
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Shelley Squires
3:34 am
Dec 01, 2011
The Guardian gets my vote.
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