Note how carefully AFP dances around the fact that FGM is Islamic, as it is always Job One for the establishment media, in all stories involving Muslims, to make Islam look as good as possible. First, we hear that “FGM is not a cultural tradition to be defended — it is a form of gender-based […]
The Hamas-Linked Gazan ‘Journalists’ Whom the Mainstream Media Still Employ
Many of the Palestinians reporting from Gaza for such mainstream media as CBS News, Reuters, AP, AFP, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal have been exposed by Honest Reporting as having lavished praise on Hamas on social media, posted antisemitic and terror-supporting comments online, and revealed themselves to be admirers, friends, and […]
Media Leaves Out Key Details to Paint Israel as the Aggressor
As Hezbollah launched a series of rocket attacks upon Israel, the media attempted to paint Israel as the aggressor: “Media Ignore Anti-Israel Rocket Attack, Focus on Israel’s Military Response,” by Chaim Lax, Honest Reporting, February 15, 2024: While the sub-header for the second article [at Sky News] did mention that Israel was responding to an earlier […]
How the Media Reported on Two Terrorists Who Worked as Journalists
On January 7, media outlets widely reported that Israel had killed two Palestinian “journalists” in Gaza. The two “journalists” were freelancers, both working for Al Jazeera: Hamza Al-Dahdouh and Mustafa Thuraya. The former was the son of Wael Al-Dahdouh, chief among the Arab journalists reporting from Gaza for Al Jazeera, and the stories about his […]
In reporting on Burkina Faso jihad massacre, establishment media outlets avoid calling jihadis ‘terrorists’
The Times of India and VOA News ran this AFP story. The link and excerpt below go to the VOA News version. The two versions are identical except for the headlines, both of which carefully refrain from referring to the jihadis (who are, in an unusual departure from the establishment media norm, referred to as […]
Media Fails in Coverage of Palestinian Terrorism in Judea and Samaria
The major media — wire services UPI, AP, and Agence France Presse (AFP), the television networks CNN, CBS, and the BBC — have singularly failed, recently, to report accurately on Palestinian terrorism in Judea and Samaria, a/k/a the West Bank. The errors range from misidentifying victims as “settlers,” to refusing to identify Palestinians murdering Israeli […]