Dishonest Reporter Awards
Dishonest Reporter of the Year Award 2017
The biggest surprise of this year’s Dishonest Reporter Award is that the winner has never
Pesach Benson
December 26, 2017
The biggest surprise of this year’s Dishonest Reporter Award is that the winner has never
Foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini never said the EU recognizes Tel Aviv as Israel’s capital. Nor does the rest of the international community. HR gets The Independent to correct the error.
HonestReporting achieved 20 significant corrections in November 2017, including from Google, the Oxford English Dictionary, CNN and the BBC.
The US doesn’t recognize a Palestinian state. HonestReporting gets the correction after The Independent erroneously refers to the PLO’s representative to the US as “Ambassador.”
The UK doesn’t recognize a Palestinian state. The Palestinians have a diplomatic mission, not an embassy. So why do media outlets refer to the Palestinian “ambassador?”
The Independent’s Bethan McKernan relies on false terrorist propaganda to incorrectly claim an air strike on a terror tunnel in Gaza.
If The Independent is going to opine about the alleged evils of the Balfour Declaration, the least it can do is get the facts right. HonestReporting gets a correction.
HonestReporting crunches the numbers to compare the Israel-related media cultures in Britain and the United States.
As Myanmar’s military comes in for international criticism, The Independent singles out Israeli arms exports to the country based on an agenda-driven source.
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres did not call on Israel to open the Rafah crossing into the Gaza Strip, which is administered solely by Egypt. HR gets the correction.
As Israel demolishes illegally built Palestinian structures in the West Bank, The Independent’s Bethan McKernan does her own demolition job in a series of one-side stories lacking in balance and omitting relevant facts.
An “exclusive” non-story in The Independent about an Israeli teenage girl jailed for refusing IDF military service is rehashed in the Daily Telegraph minus the nuances in the original.
UPDATE The Independent notified HonestReporting by email that the slide show has been taken down
The Independent’s reports on Al Quds Day downplay Iran’s genocidal opposition to Israel while labeling its president a “moderate.”
HonestReporting crunches the numbers to compare the Israel-related media cultures in Britain and the United States.
HonestReporting prompts corrections from The Times of London, The Independent and Daily Mail following inaccurate references to the Western Wall as “Judaism’s holiest site.”
HonestReporting prompts a correction from The Independent after Israel’s security barrier by Bethlehem is described as an “occupation wall.”
The Independent promotes a South African publicity stunt drawing attention to a Palestinian hunger strike and includes an embedded tweet calling for Israel’s destruction.
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