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August 4, 2005       Share:    

Source: http://www.honestreporting.com/articles/45884734/critiques/Unreliable_Palestinian_Witnesses.asp

Palestinian "Witnesses"

(HonestReporting) The unreliability of Palestinian sources has long undermined the integrity of Mideast media coverage. Last month, AP and Reuters reported Palestinian prisoners' claims that Israeli guards tore up copies of the Koran, while a Palestinian prisoner later admitted to doing the ripping. On July 20, Reuters, relying on unnamed Palestinian witnesses, reported that "Jewish settlers stabbed a Palestinian boy to death," though Palestinian police soon after arrested a Palestinian suspect in the murder. As Joshua Muravchik notes in his book, Covering the Intifada: How the Media Reported the Palestinian Uprising, "Journalists seem to follow a canon that says when two sides are fighting, it is their obligation to report equally and with equal credence what is said by each. But...the Palestinians repeatedly lie."

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