HonestReporting has been working around the clock to identify and respond to the worst media bias since the appalling events of October 7 and the subsequent launch of Israeli military action against Hamas.
You can already see many of the posts that we’ve published on our website but here’s a roundup of just some of the issues and media outlets that we’ve flagged on social media over the past several days that didn’t make it into full articles.
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TAKE ACTION NOW: You can make a difference. We’ve included contact details on many of the examples of media bias below. Please send your considered comments to the media and hold them accountable.
ABC News Australia Sanitizes a Terrorist
What @abcnews doesn’t tell you in this creepily sympathetic piece is that this “young militant” carried out numerous terror attacks and was planning to bomb Israeli civilians https://t.co/wBkmpXTQHq
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) November 30, 2023
Fill in ABC News Australia’s complaint form: https://www.abc.net.au/contact/complain.htm
Guardian Columnist Erases Deaths of Israeli Journalists
No, @OwenJones84, do you consider the four dead Israeli journalists who were killed by terrorists in their homes and at a music festival to be foreigners? Because that’s exactly what Hamas considered them to be. https://t.co/cJrNylUsRc pic.twitter.com/6yvJQanMwz
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) November 29, 2023
Contact The Guardian readers’ editor: [email protected]
Media Flub Hostage Release Deal
Hey @washingtonpost, when you frame your story like this, it implies that Hamas released these Palestinians. In fact, they were released by Israel, where they were imprisoned for terrorism and violence.https://t.co/xQyWyqKwD1 pic.twitter.com/IfbiaWtxrM
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) November 29, 2023
Contact the Washington Post Readers Representative: [email protected]
"33 Palestinian civilians." Interesting way for @washingtonpost to describe Palestinian prisoners held by Israel for terrorism offenses.
And it's not a "captive exchange deal." There's no equivalence between Israeli captives of Hamas & the Palestinian prisoners.… pic.twitter.com/hmM1K3HI8P
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) November 28, 2023
Contact the Washington Post Readers Representative: [email protected]
Typical @guardian. The "33 Palestinians freed" are not simply women & children. They are youths and women held by Israel for terror offenses. They are not innocent victims like the Israeli hostages held by Hamas. pic.twitter.com/2qyIFP4ZM3
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) November 28, 2023
Contact The Guardian readers’ editor: [email protected]
We've fixed it for you, @washingtonpost.
This is not an "exchange of captives." There is no equivalence between Israeli hostages kidnapped by Hamas and Palestinian prisoners held by Israel for terror offenses.https://t.co/N7r5zbpVIj pic.twitter.com/XrR6LyukJI
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) November 28, 2023
Contact the Washington Post Readers Representative: [email protected]
No, @Reuters, there is no equivalence between Israeli hostages held captive by Hamas and Palestinian prisoners held by Israel for terrorism offenses.
Please fix this abysmal #HeadlineFail.https://t.co/MG0OWyy3tp pic.twitter.com/TktmbYfv1F
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) November 27, 2023
Contact Reuters Customer Support: https://liaison.reuters.com/contact-us
USA Today Op-Ed Claims ‘Murdering Babies is an Old Fake News Trope
Some things aren't that complicated. Multiple eyewitnesses to the horrors of Oct. 7 reported seeing babies who had been decapitated.
But academic Nolan Higdon in @USATODAY thinks it's a suspect claim "given that murdering babies is an old fake news trope."
There are no words.… pic.twitter.com/8GtUXmIDH9
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) November 28, 2023
Fill in USA Today feedback form: https://cm.usatoday.com/site-feedback/
Sky News Journalist Turns Hamas Into Humanitarians
Anything you want to say about this, @DominicWaghorn?
"Aunt says Hamas forced 12-year-old hostage to watch videos of atrocities, aimed gun at him when he cried"https://t.co/Wd3BOhNQOX https://t.co/Zez5CyOzhe
— Simon Plosker (@SimonPlosker) November 28, 2023
Contact: [email protected]
New York Times Turns Ahed Tamimi Into an ‘Author’
"We will slaughter you & you will say that what Hitler did to you was a joke. We will drink your blood & eat your skull. Come on, we are waiting for you." – Ahed Tamimi@nytimes says she's an "author." 🤦♂️https://t.co/p6Gfe7LltH pic.twitter.com/j7l8jOdYVn
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) November 28, 2023
Contact: [email protected]
New York Times Casts Doubt or Diminishes Oct. 7
Has @nytimes produced possibly one of the most inappropriate usages of scare quotes in a headline?https://t.co/F1IYK9kZBV pic.twitter.com/B9JCYRVyXc
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) November 27, 2023
Contact: [email protected]
On Oct. 7 Hamas terrorists infiltrated Israel, massacring 1,200 people during an orgy of torture, rape & murder, and kidnapped some 240 others in the single biggest loss of Jewish life since the Holocaust.
For the @nytimes, these were simply "raids" carried out by "militants."… pic.twitter.com/D7gBZSmtWT
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) November 27, 2023
Contact: [email protected]
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