TEN QUESTIONS for Israel’s Eado Hecht A Top Military Expert Torpedoes Obama & Kerry Legacy Posted on: January 26, 2017 14:37 +00:00 [09:37 EST] “Obama’s policies did nothing to promote peace or democracy in the Middle East. Assuming that promoting them was American policy and not just lip service, they have actually set them back. Whether Trump […]
TEN QUESTIONS for Kobi Michael Former Israel National Security Official Rips Bernie Sanders Posted on: April 19, 2016 18:18 +00:00 [13:18 EST] “Mr. Sanders has to say that if he will be the president, he will demand that the Palestinians stop playing games and to say once and for all that they accept the formula of […]
TEN QUESTIONS for Gene Foreman: Ethics Textbook Author Is Reuters’ Jerusalem Bureau Chief Luke Baker Biased Against Israel? Posted on: August 18, 2016 23:16 +00:00 [18:16 EST] In late June, we received an inquiry from Simon Plosker, the managing editor of an organization named HonestReporting (HR), whose mandate is “Defending Israel From Media Bias.” Mr. Plosker asked if we […]
TEN QUESTIONS for Australia’s Robert Magid His “Eyeless in Gaza” Documentary Unmasks Western Media Coverage Posted on: May 31, 2017 00:19 +00:00 [19:19 EST] Robert Magid, a leading Australian real estate developer, and publisher of Australian Jewish News, was in New York back in February. He was there, in large part, to promote a documentary he produced called “Eyeless […]
Media’s Pro Forma Bashing of Israel’s Response to Gaza Protests Posted on: April 24, 2018 17:13 +00:00 [12:13 EST] UPDATE: Two armed Gazans with a grenade and a knife were arrested today after crossing into Israel, having breached a security fence. “It was not immediately clear what the suspects’ intentions were in Israel,” writes the Times of Israel, […]
FIT TO PRINT?: The Fishy Business of the New York Times in Iran March 14, 2016 A version of this article was published in The Mideast Reporter. Mr. Kirchick subsequently joined Mideast Dig as a Contributing Editor. UPDATE JANUARY 28, 2025: Not “fit to print” in the archive? Apparently, the New York Times article about […]
ASSOCIATED MESS: How the AP Botched Its Investigation of Civilian Deaths in the Israel-Hamas War Posed photographs. Intentional miscategorizations. Buried corrections. One-sided sourcing. Cherry-picked quotes. And a just-plain-wrong conclusion about “most” Gaza casualties being civilians. This exposé was first published on March 10, 2015, as a cover story in the New York Observer, and later […]
HADIDISM: Does Peter Baker of the New York Times have a Diaa Hadid Problem? [Part 2] Click the link to view Part 1. Posted on: April 14, 2016 02:43 +00:00 [21:43 EST] “The shit that went down”—see the end of Part One in this multi-part series —was Diaa Hadid’s description to me of the sandstorm of criticism […]
DAGGERS & DIAMONDS: Equating Attackers and Victims A version of this story was first published in The Mideast Reporter. It’s no shocker that roughly 60% of Americans don’t read beyond the headlines of news stories — as was revealed in an in-depth study in 2014 by the American Press Institute. (The true number is undoubtedly higher, since […]
HADIDISM: Does Peter Baker of the New York Times have a Diaa Hadid Problem? [Part 1] Click the link to view Part 2. Posted on: March 29, 2016 19:10 +00:00 [14:10 EST] By all accounts, Peter Baker is a straight shooter when it comes to fair and honest reporting, and he enjoys a stellar reputation as a result. […]
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