Media Watch

AP’s Jerusalem bureau stands by baseless report that Christians in Gaza have been forced to convert to Islam, even after the agency’s own reporter acknowledged the claims weren’t true

This is at least the second notable act of apparent censorship by Haaretz in recent months.

Why didn’t AP verify claims of “forced conversions” of Christians in Gaza before publishing damaging and ultimately false report?

Much “new media” reproduces old patterns of excluding Palestinian voices and privileging Israeli and non-Arab ones.

Amy Goodman breaks her silent streak on Mahmoud Sarsak with an egregious error.

It has been two months since the latest serious allegations of a conflict of interest at The New York Times Jerusalem Bureau, but no one at the newspaper has yet addressed them.

Zionists and their supporters control large chunks of the media in the EU’s three largest countries.

I am getting sick of the idea that the Israeli army spokespersons are allowed to tweet wrong information, mock dead people, tweet outdated

A two-part report aired yesterday on the US comedy program The Daily Show the US for cutting off funding to the United Nations education and cultural organization UNESCO after the UN body admitted Palestine as a member state last year.

Violence has always been a useful term for governments and their allied establishment figures in media and punditry. Key to that utility is a very specialized use of the term as a descriptor for actions that don’t originate with the establishment or authorities. Police, armies, presidents and city administrators do not engage in violence. They use strategies, protocols, plans of action, deployments, operations and strikes. The people that are injured and die in those acts are not actively killed by violence. Rather, they suffer only in the passive voice.