The Media Accountability Project  

"To ensure balanced reporting and avoid double standards in your reporting, I, therefore, recommend explicitly stating that these Palestinians were killed by Israel. This adjustment would maintain accurate reporting and uphold the high standards of journalism expected by The Globe and Mail's readers." Continue reading

"These details are probably relevant for people to know. Why does a protester who was in a scuffle with a cop and allegedly fought back with a plastic straw deserve such outsized and one-sided media attention? That is a question Global News ought to offer. It is a sad day in Canadian media when plastic straw attacks garner significantly more media attention than plausible accusations of genocide." Continue reading

"The vocabulary and framing you’ve used to describe protests at the University of Southern California is entirely misleading. Please adjust it accordingly, as it is a question of maintaining commonly held journalistic standards of accuracy." Continue reading

"Given these cases of violent crack-downs on protestors at both the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Southern California, the vocabulary you’ve used to describe interactions between students and police is inappropriate, inaccurate, and merits prompt correction." Continue reading

"Please change the words “preparing a strike” to “preparing a ground invasion” and “gathered after escaping violence elsewhere in Gaza” to “forcibly expulsed after seeking shelter from Israel’s incessant and indiscriminate bombing campaign” since they better reflect Israel’s intentions and actions and the reality of Palestinians." Continue reading

"Please update “checkered scarves” promptly, as it can be deeply offensive to Palestinians and their allies, especially amidst its ban at the Ontario Legislature and the rise of anti-Palestinian racism. You might want to consider words such as “an expression of Palestinian identity, struggle, and resistance” as they are more appropriate and accurate in describing the keffiyeh and its significance to the Palestinians and their allies." Continue reading

"To refer to them as ‘Jewish’ is misleading to the reader and inaccurate, according to the position of both the United Nations and the Canadian government. Both the United Nations and Canada consistently refer to them as Israeli settlements or Israeli settlement activity.  I would ask that you consider exchanging the word ‘Jewish’ for ‘Israeli’. This change would clearly identify the role the Israeli government has had and continues to have in the creation and expansion of the settlements." Continue reading

"While you do acknowledge the meaning of the word as “shaking of oppression,” you frame intifada in terms of violence. Such framing is highly reductive, as intifadas were not solely characterized by violence but were multifaceted social and political movements involving a wide range of tactics (largely peaceful)." Continue reading

"Given that the article is about the encampments at American universities, it would make your article more balanced to describe the subject of their protests in their terms. At the minimum, Columbia University’s Gaza Solidarity Encampment's clearly stated demands should be reported at the beginning of the article." Continue reading

"Gaza is being destroyed presently. And yet, protest signs are treated by the AP as more worthy of context than the ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza." Continue reading