January, 2013

January 5, 2013

New Year’s Resolutions We’d Like the Media to Make

  Here’s a list of New Year’s resolutions for the media our friends at CAMERA compi...

January 5, 2013

BBC ‘tidies up’ Fatah celebrations

Fatah has been marking an anniversary this week, although the BBC only got round to reporting on the...

January 4, 2013

Gaza, statistics and the BBC

A few days ago we commented on various aspects of the BBC’s special report entitled “Lif...

January 4, 2013

Postcard from Israel – Old Gesher

Here’s a story for any train-spotters among our readers. When Pinchas Rotenberg was constructi...

January 4, 2013

The Czech Persuasion: Against grandiose ideas & miraculous solutions in the Mid-East

H/T Evelyn Gordon Following the annexation of Austria into the Third Reich in March 1938, Hitle...

January 4, 2013

Does the Guardian’s media blogger follow CiF Watch?

A guest post by AKUS On December 30th, I noted that the Guardian’s media blogger, Roy Greenslade, ...

January 4, 2013

A breath of fresh air

If readers have not yet seen it, the editorial from the Washington Post of January 2nd 2013 is well ...

January 3, 2013

Not reported by the Guardian: The “plot to celebrate Christmas” in Saudi Arabia

The following story about an incident in Saudi Arabia, published in Alakhbar, reads as satire, but ...

January 3, 2013

Another lethal narrative on the BBC website

The mainstream media – of which the BBC is part – claims to deal in news rather than fiction or ...

January 3, 2013

The SS-headache of Carlos Latuff

Cross-posted by Petra Marquardt-Bigman, who blogs at ‘The Warped Mirror‘. Among “pro...