The Guardian’s Harriet Sherwood Gets 2012 Off to a Shoddy Start
This is cross posted by Simon Ploskerat HonestReporting The newsprint has barely dried on the back of 2011 that saw The Guardian deservedly pick up the annual Dishonest Reporter Award. This hasn’t,...
View ArticleDutch Daily: “Chosen People have to be perfect” (Israeli prenatal care framed...
This was written by Yochanan Visser of Missing Peace, and cross posted at HonestReporting. Last week the Dutch Christian daily ‘Trouw’ reached a new low when it published a vicious article about...
View ArticleGuardian Report Misses the Real Child Abuse
This is cross posted by Simon Plosker at HonestReporting NBC News reports: The images grow no less shocking with time — a gaping wound on a tiny skull, the hair matted with blood; a gunshot that...
View ArticleIsrael fires back at Harriet Sherwood over allegations that Palestinian kids...
On Jan. 22, the Guardian published Harriet Sherwood’s report, Palestinian children – alone and bewildered in Israel’s Al-Jalame Jail, which included accusations that Israel mistreats Palestinian teens...
View ArticleCiF Watch Gossip of the Day: Harriet Sherwood “Head Spinning” Edition
Via a highly reliable source, there was a truly quality moment at the 2012 Herzliya Conference today – at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) – as the Guardian’s Harriet Sherwood evidently unwittingly...
View ArticleEXPOSED: UN Media Official Responsible for False Photo Tweet
Written by Simon Plosker at HonestReporting Our guest post from the IDF revealed how a photo, allegedly depicting the results of Israeli air strikes in Gaza in recent days, have been proven false. The...
View ArticleU.N Rep Khulood Badawi caught in a blatant lie about Israel: Refuses to...
Khulood Badawi is a UN representative and a partisan activist who published a picture of a child who was killed in an accident in 2006 as “another child killed by #Israel…another father carrying his...
View Article6 Secrets of Media Objectivity: What are the principles of fair news coverage?
The following was produced by HonestReporting, and is posted at CiF Watch with their expressed permission. Upload01 120529023742-phpapp02 View more PowerPoint from Adam Levick Related articles Honest...
View ArticleThe Guardian & BBC, and a tall tale regarding a Palestinian ‘switched at...
Guardian journalists reporting on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict at times seem to casually accept Palestinian claims at face value and often fail to perform even rudimentary research on the argument...
View ArticleThe Guardian retracts lie that Tel Aviv is Israel’s capital!
The following is a press release from HonestReporting: The Guardian has retracted its claim that Tel Aviv is the capital of Israel, writing unequivocally on Wednesday, ”we accept that it is wrong to...
View ArticleContinuing CiF Watch coverage of the Guardian’s ‘Capital’ humiliation: Headlines
As we reported yesterday (here and here), the Guardian, in a rare nod to reality, surrendered and acknowledged that Tel Aviv is NOT Israel’s capital. (See HonestReporting’s account here.) Here’s their...
View ArticleRighting the Guardian’s capital offense, and standing up for Israel
This essay was written by Simon Plosker (managing editor of HonestReporting) and published in the Jerusalem Post on August 12. When HonestReporting filed a complaint with the UK’s Press Complaints...
View ArticleDoes the Guardian own a map? Op-Ed falsely claims E-1 would cut West Bank in two
On December 3, we demonstrated that Harriet Sherwood’s allegation that proposed Israeli construction in the area of land (known as E-1) between Jerusalem and Ma’aleh Adumim would cut off eastern...
View ArticleGuardian fails to take home top prize at 2012 Dishonest Reporting Awards
It just wasn’t their year. Oh, how they tried to repeat the performance which earned them the 2011 HonestReporting ‘Dishonest Reporting Award‘, but it simply wasn’t to be. Though the Guardian failed to...
View ArticleWhat the Guardian won’t report: Israel’s thriving, liberal democracy
Our friends at CAMERA wrote the following, in a post titled ‘Where’s the coverage? Israel the Only Free Country in the Middle East‘, Jan. 23, the day after yet another free and fair Israeli election....
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