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Wednesday, January 6, 2010
"Jewish Only Road" Falsehood Corrected
CAMERA/Media Analysis
05 January '10
After dispatching a story that referred to Israel's (non-existent) "practice of reserving some roads for Jews," the Associated Press modified its wording to correctly describe the roads, which in actuality are open to Israeli citizens and residents of all religions and ethnicities.
Before the AP caught and corrected its mistake, though, the Boston Globe published the early version of the story, along with its error. To its credit, the newspaper quickly cleared the record with a correction after CAMERA brought the inaccuracy to the attention of editors there.
The initial AP story, a December 29 dispatch by Amy Teibel asserted:
Israel's Supreme Court ordered the military on Tuesday to allow Palestinians to travel on the part of a major highway that runs through the West Bank, handing Palestinians their biggest victory yet against Israel's practice of reserving some roads for Jews.
Some hours later, on Dec. 30, the AP sent out the same story with corrected language:
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