Yesterday, we posted and tweeted about the following egregious error in a report at The Telegraph on the scandal surrounding comments by a low-level Israeli employee, Shai Masot, uncovered by an Al Jazeera investigation on “the lobby”.
The Telegraph’s report on the comments of the employee was accompanied by a headline which claimed that the embassy official was Ambassador Mark Regev.
.@Telegraph headline fail: The "ambassador" did no such thing https://t.co/5mxoejznhd It's as if the editor didn't even read the article pic.twitter.com/z9GaX8A4bC
— CAMERA UK (formerly UK Media Watch and BBC Watch) (@CAMERAorgUK) January 8, 2017
This afternoon, we heard back from Telegraph editors, who informed us that they corrected the headline.
Here it is:
They also added the following addendum:
