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HR Prompts FT to Correct Political Error

While not all factual errors relating to Israel coverage are necessarily damaging or malicious, they should nonetheless be corrected and the media outlet held to account. Such is the case with a Financial Times story that…

Simon Plosker
February 18, 2018
12:00 am

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While not all factual errors relating to Israel coverage are necessarily damaging or malicious, they should nonetheless be corrected and the media outlet held to account.

Such is the case with a Financial Times story that contained the following:

In fact, the Zionist Union, with 24 seats, is the second-largest party in the Knesset, not Yesh Atid, which has 11. Yesh Atid isn’t even the second-largest party in the opposition.

We contacted the FT and, while it took longer than we expected for such a simple correction, the story was amended and the following added to the end:

The importance of factual accuracy cannot be overstated. That’s why we will hold the media to account even when straightforward errors appear in stories.

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Tags: distorted facts, Financial Times, FT, Knesset, success, Yesh Atid

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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