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SUCCESS: Daily Mail Corrects Yet Another Capital Offense

What is going on at the Daily Mail? More specifically US Political Editor David Martosko, whose story, only two days ago, implied in multiple places, that Tel Aviv was Israel’s capital. HonestReporting got that corrected….

Simon Plosker
January 4, 2017
12:00 am

Reading time: 2 minutes

What is going on at the Daily Mail? More specifically US Political Editor David Martosko, whose story, only two days ago, implied in multiple places, that Tel Aviv was Israel’s capital.

HonestReporting got that corrected. So it was disappointing to see a similar error turn up in another Martosko story so soon. This time:

Except that the US has never recognized Tel Aviv as Israel’s capital. Nor for that matter has any country in the world, irrespective of whether they recognize the legitimacy of Jerusalem as Israel’s actual capital.

It’s worth noting that back in 2012, HonestReporting scored a significant victory when it forced, through legal measures, The Guardian to retract its claim that Tel Aviv was the Israeli capital.

This time, the Daily Mail’s Mail Online has removed the offending sentence in its entirety from the article following a complaint from HonestReporting.

Let’s hope that David Martosko pays a bit more attention in future to getting the facts right when he includes Israel in any of his stories.

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Tags: capital, Daily Mail, David Martosko, distorted facts, Jerusalem, Mail Online, success, Tel Aviv

Simon Plosker

With over two decades of experience in various non-governmental organizations in the UK and Israel, Simon Plosker returned to HonestReporting in October 2022 as Editorial Director having previously been part of the organization’s management team from 2005 to 2020. Prior to his first spell at HonestReporting, Simon worked in Israel for NGO Monitor, BICOM, and served for a short period in the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit. He was Managing Editor of the Geneva-based NGO United Nations Watch for two years before moving back to the frontline defending Israel from media bias. Simon has a BSoc.Sc in International Studies and Political Science from the University of Birmingham and an MSc in History of International Relations from the London School of Economics. He immigrated to Israel in 2001 from London.

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