The Daily Mail’s Mail Online falsely implies that Tel Aviv is Israel’s capital. HonestReporting gets the correction.
CNN: Istanbul Terror Victim “Palestinian Citizen of Israel”
Israeli citizen Leanne Nasser is murdered in a terror attack on an Istanbul nightclub. CNN describes her as a “Palestinian citizen of Israel.”
IBT Sources Hate Site to Accuse Israel of Using Palestinian Child as a Human Shield
The International Business Times relies on a Hamas-supporting hate site to accuse Israel of using a Palestinian child as a human shield.
NPR Covers Up the Ethnic Cleansing of Jews
NPR’s failed attempt to explain settlements is offensive to Jewish victims and an embarrassment to journalism.
HR France Prompts Public Demonstration Against French TV Station
HonestReporting France exposes serious bias in a French Channel M6 program on Jerusalem, prompting a demonstration outside the TV station’s offices.
Defining Bias #8: Lack of Transparency
Part eight of an eight-part series explaining The 8 Categories of Media Bias. Violation #8 Lack of Transparency Failing to be open and accountable to readers. The issue of media transparency goes right to the heart of the beepest questions about journalism. Is media objectivity possible? Is there even such a thing as true objectivity?…
HonestReporting’s Top Content of 2016
We had a busy year, with media critiques, news roundups, videos, graphics, social media posts, news literacy articles, and new foreign language content monitoring Brazilian and French media. As 2016 draws to a close, here’s a look back at the top 10 pieces of content that had our growing readership buzzing. You can follow HR…
The 2016 Dishonest Reporter of the Year: Why Headline Writers Won
The Dishonest Reporting Award typically goes to a clear-cut winner. Last year, the BBC won for a steady output of problematic coverage throughout the year. In 2014, the award went to Gaza war correspondents for their problematic handling of Operation Protective Edge. But 2016 didn’t have any comparable singular outrages like, say, journalist Donald Bostrom’s…
News Literacy: Why Headlines Matter
Headlines certainly deserve scrutiny. It’s well-known that we don’t read most of the articles in our daily papers; we skim the headlines before being drawn to whatever draws our attention. The same habits apply on social media, where we scroll through our Facebook or Twitter feeds and click on whatever catches our fancy. An April,…
“Settlements Built on Land Seized From Palestine in ’67”: Metro Rewrites History
Metro falsely claims that settlements are “built on territory Israel seized from Palestine during the 1967 Six Day War.”