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Guardian Deliberately Fails to Correct Error

Only yesterday, I caught Guardian correspondent Harriet Sherwood in yet another of her misguided and erroneous descriptions of the Western Wall as “the holiest site in Judaism”, while promoting the Palestinian narrative of Muslim hegemony…

Simon Plosker
August 25, 2011
12:00 am

Reading time: < 1 minutes

I immediately sent an email to The Guardian’s reader’s editor demanding a correction, pointing out that while I did not expect The Guardian to stop parroting the Palestinian narrative, I did at least expect factual accuracy.

A correction to the article has been published but it was not what we should have expected:

The American broadcaster Glenn Beck was wrongly described as a born-again Christian in an article about his plans to stage a rally in Jerusalem to show support for Israel. He is a devout Mormon (Facebook protest over US broadcaster’s Israeli rallies, 24 August, page 26).

From this I can only deduce that The Guardian took another look at the article but deemed my complaint to be unimportant. Can The Guardian disgust me any further than it does already?

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Tags: Glenn Beck, Harriet Sherwood, Jerusalem, Temple Mount, The Guardian, Western Wall

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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