Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America

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The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America ( CAMERA ; German: Committee for Correct Reporting on the Middle East in America ) is an American, non - profit, non- governmental organization based in Boston . It was founded in 1982 to counter what it believed to be one-sided anti-Israel reporting on the Middle East conflict.

activities

CAMERA observes media reports about the Middle East conflict in the USA , evaluates them and contacts journalists, producers and publicists in order to complain about inaccurate, incomplete or unbalanced reporting on the Middle East.

Among other things, the organization has criticized the film Munich ( Steven Spielberg , 2005), which alleged Israel had a fundamental “guilt” and “abnormal, bloody and counterproductive” actions. In contrast to Spielberg 's Schindler's List , the film is a “manipulation based on lies”.

CAMERA has about 55,000 paying members and several thousand active letter writers who are active internationally and about the Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz calls attention to their coverage in America to negative from CAMERA-visual effects. Her managing director Andrea Levin publishes frequently in the Jerusalem Post .

The organization is a member of the umbrella organization of US Jewish organizations, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations .

In 2008, CAMERA employee Gilead Ini emailed ten volunteers to “keep Israel-related entries in Wikipedia free from the influence of anti-Israeli authors”. He found more than 50 helpers, but after four weeks the initiative became known. Administrators blocked five people involved because the transparent structure of the project was incompatible with coordinated editing by ideologically similar people. Gilead Ini stressed that his intention was not to deceive, but to provide accurate information on contested topics. Anyone can edit Wikipedia, which allows anti-Israeli editors to enter all kinds of bias and errors, but also camera helpers to correct such errors.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alex Beam: War of the virtual Wiki-worlds. The Boston Globe , May 3, 2008
  2. ^ Damien McElroy: Israeli battles rage on Wikipedia . The Telegraph, May 7, 2008.