Screaming Headline Disconnect

This screaming headine in The Independent is badly undermined by the very last sentence of its story. But the last…

By June 23, 2011

This screaming headine in The Independent is badly undermined by the very last sentence of its story.

But the last sentence says:

Many of the Bedouin lack land-ownership deeds.

Methinks a more accurate screaming headline should say something like this:

Illegal Bedouin construction picking up speed

© Divuach Ne’eman R”A, 2025

Pesach Benson

Pesach Benson

A Baltimore native, Pesach was with HonestReporting from 2011 to 2020. He edited the Israel Daily News Stream and authored the e-book, Red Lines: HonestReporting’s 8 Categories of Media Bias. Before moving to Israel in 1995, he worked as a reporter for the Baltimore Jewish Times. Pesach has a B.A. in political science from the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, where he was executive editor of the campus newspaper.

Discover More

Get clear, reliable Israel news and tools to fight media bias.

Subscribe