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How Did They Fall for It?


(Christian Science Monitor) Eoin O'Carroll - The BBC, Agence France Presse, and Time magazine all erroneously reported that a rabbinical court in Jerusalem had sentenced a dog to death by stoning. The Western news outlets all got the story from Ynet, the website for the Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot. Ynet's story says that the head of the court denied that such an incident had taken place, a detail left out of the Western media stories. The paper also noted that there was no official ruling.
2011-06-22 00:00:00
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