The Media Accountability Project  

Describing Iran as Hezbollah’s “masters” strips Lebanese actors of political agency. The term masters is at best a provocative term, and at worst its flatour incendiary. In either case, its usage constitutes a strong expression of slanted personal opinion. The purpose of analysis articles, according to the JSP, is to offer readers insights “based on facts.” We believe this framing sacrifices the intent of analysis in favor of polarizing sensationalism. Continue reading

The issue with the article is that it does not provide space to challenge or raise skepticism around Israel’s claim that the IDF only targets buildings used by the resistance in Lebanon. Continue reading

This raises an important editorial question: what objective standard determines when a state is described as a “government” versus a “regime”? If the distinction is not applied consistently across states regardless of alliance or geopolitical positioning, then the terminology ceases to function as responsible reporting and instead becomes selective language that falls outside the realm of fair journalistic practice. Continue reading

"Kinsella presents Small’s perspective as a final, neutral and authoritative academic voice, but the article omits any reference to his record of Islamophobic statements." Continue reading

Protesters were therefore calling for Canada to investigate IDF soldiers present in the country for committing war crimes and to ban their entry. However, this perspective of the students was omitted, rendering the article one-sided and biased. Continue reading

The article should specify that Elbit Systems is Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer and a major supplier to the Israeli military, producing drones, surveillance technologies, and weapons systems - profiting from and enabling Israel’s ongoing ethnic cleansing campaign against Palestinians in Gaza. Continue reading

"My quick search yielded coverage by UN News, based on the proceedings of the Human Rights Council morning session on 16 June 2008, in reference to a report focused on the closure of Gaza and its impact on the enjoyment of human rights, where Arbour (who was United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights at the time) said 'Actions taken by Israel, the Palestinian Authority and Hamas during the reporting period continued to violate international human rights and humanitarian law.'" Continue reading

The claim that the war re-ignited on March 2 is therefore misleading, as the Israeli forces had already been conducting near-daily airstrikes in southern Lebanon for fifteen months. Framing the timeline in this way effectively marginalizes southern Lebanese communities, erases the past year and a half of constant bombardment from the narrative, and treats the south as though it is not part of Lebanon. Continue reading

The Toronto Star has a responsibility to provide rigorous, contextual, and impartial journalism. This article falls short of that standard. I therefore urge you to amend the title of the piece to reflect a more balanced and evidence-based account of the killing of the Palestinian teenager, specifically attributing Israel in the headline Continue reading

We understand that this does not constitute a breach of the core pillars of responsible journalism; however, in the interest of accuracy, and in light of the international legal consensus regarding Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, we kindly ask that you amend the article by replacing “critics” with language that reflects the weight of international legal and human rights consensus, including UN experts.  Continue reading