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Success: SABC Removes Anti-Semitic, Recycled Photo

Yesterday, HonestReporting called South Africa’s SABC News onto the carpet for a nasty bit of photo bias. I pointed out the photo’s irrelevancy (a 2010 Indonesian demonstration against the Mavi Marmara raid) to the story…

Pesach Benson
August 28, 2012
12:00 am

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Yesterday, HonestReporting called South Africa’s SABC News onto the carpet for a nasty bit of photo bias.

I pointed out the photo’s irrelevancy (a 2010 Indonesian demonstration against the Mavi Marmara raid) to the story at hand (African migrants in Israel). Yarden Frankl also weighed in on the image’s anti-Semitic aspect.

Several HonestReporting readers forwarded us their SABC correspondence:

While we stand by the report, the SABC removed the image in response to the complaints received.

The SABC’s story‘s now illustrated by a map of the Mideast.

Thank you to all our readers who troubled themselves to contact SABC. Common sense prevailed.

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Tags: African migrants, Mavi Marmara, photo bias, recycled photos, SABC

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.

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