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, […]
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 […]
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. […]
Finally: White House Rips Linking of Jews to ‘APES & PIGS’ by Egypt’s Morsi, After Forbes Report [Part 2] Click the links to view Part 1 and Part 3. The follow-up below was published on January 15th, 2013. A third (and final) probe—titled “There He Goes Again: Egypt’s Morsi Stuns U.S. Senators In Meeting With […]
NEWS FLASH: JEWS ARE ‘APES & PIGS‘. So Why Is Egypt’s Morsi The Elephant In America’s Newsrooms? [Part 1] Click the links to view Part 2 and Part 3. Versions of these stories were published in Forbes on Jan 11, 15, and 25, 2013 Last Friday, the sitting president of Egypt—the world’s 15th most […]
The Media Intifada Bad Math and Ugly Truths about the New York Times (and Many Western Media Outlets) in the Israel-Hamas War of 2014… Originally Published at Forbes.com; August 21, 2014 It’s a “media intifada,” notes Gary Weiss, an old colleague and one of the world’s top business investigative reporters. He is referring of course to the […]