Press Complaints Commission

January 26, 2017

UKMW prompts 4th correction in last year to media claim that Tel Aviv is Israel’s capital

It's important to note that, in 2012, the Press Complaints Commission ruled that it is wrong to stat...

September 8, 2014

Guardian rejects new press regulator and claims: We can police ourselves

The Press Complaints Commission – a voluntary regulatory body for British newspapers and mag...

December 20, 2013

Guardian editor struggles with Jewish Geography, but puts ‘Israeli hawks’ back in Jerusalem

On Nov. 18 we reminded readers that until the summer of 2012 the Guardian’s Style Guide stated ...

October 15, 2012

Did the Guardian just implicitly recognize “East” Jerusalem as part of Israel?

It’s been a tough year for the Guardian’s “research” department. Earlier in ...

October 2, 2012

PCC rules Guardian breached editors’ code of ethics in claim Tel Aviv was Israel’s capital

We’ll provide commentary on this tomorrow, but ‘Times of Israel’ just reported the...

September 19, 2012

PCC rules that Guardian’s Conal Urquhart ‘significantly misled’ readers in flotilla story

In late May we wrote a piece, titled ‘Guardian’s Conal Urquhart lies about “unarme...

August 13, 2012

Righting 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 Je...

August 9, 2012

Continuing 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 ac...

August 8, 2012

Guardian’s grudging mea (not quite) culpa highlights the need for media regulation reform in the UK.

As reported earlier in the day, our friends at Honest Reporting today issued a press release announc...

August 7, 2012

Toothless PCC upholds Indy blogger’s right to grossly mislead readers about Israel

Note: an update to this post appears at the bottom. On June 22 Richard Sudan, a blogger at The Indep...