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HonestReporting Gets Beersheba Attack Headline Correction

Not all media errors are made with malicious intent. Some are simply typos or sheer carelessness in the rush to get content up on the web. Nonetheless, these seemingly innocent errors also have to be…

Simon Plosker
October 19, 2015
12:00 am

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Not all media errors are made with malicious intent. Some are simply typos or sheer carelessness in the rush to get content up on the web.

Nonetheless, these seemingly innocent errors also have to be caught and acted upon. Such was the case with this headline in The Independent in its initial report on a terrorist attack at Beersheba’s central bus station:

Immediately upon being notified (Beersheba is not in Jerusalem, it is some 100 km away), The Independent corrected the geographical error in the headline.

It is, however, highly unfortunate that the headline still contains such a great deal of moral ambiguity, failing to mention who carried out the attack, instead referring to “Israel violence.”

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Tags: Beersheba, headline bias, Palestinian terrorism, success, The Independent

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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