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Two Headline Fails in Three Days For The Australian

UPDATE Thank you to The Australian for once again changing the headline and acknowledging that this should not have happened. The headline now reads: What is going on at The Australian? On March…

Simon Plosker
April 2, 2017
12:00 am

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UPDATE

Thank you to The Australian for once again changing the headline and acknowledging that this should not have happened.

The headline now reads:

What is going on at The Australian? On March 30, HonestReporting secured an update to a faulty headline “Palestinian woman killed by Israeli police.” That headline failed to acknowledge that the Palestinian woman was killed in the course of an attempted stabbing attack.

To its credit, The Australian quickly amended the headline after we contacted editors. So it was an unwelcome surprise to see this headline only three days later in relation to another stabbing attack in Jerusalem on Saturday:

Different terror attack, identical headline format.

We’ve contacted The Australian yet again to ask how such an error could happen twice in the space of three days.

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Tags: Headline fail, Jerusalem, Lack of context, Old City, Palestinian terror, stabbing attack, success, The Australian

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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