Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Without the Internet we would never have known.
Time Mag Forced to Edit Israel Blood Libel from Report

Early Sunday morning it was found that Time magazine had included in one of its video reports the lie that Israeli soldiers were selling the organs of dead Palestinians on the black market. - Breitbart

To its credit, by that afternoon the magazine had apologized and edited out the classic blood libel claim....

After HonestReporting exposed these facts, Time magazine did the right thing and edited out the false claims from its video. The magazine also posted the following notice of the correction at the end of the video:
Correction: The original version of this video cited a contested allegation in a 2009 Swedish newspaper report as fact. The allegation has been removed from the video.
It is good that the magazine excised this lie from its video and also good that it owned up to the edit instead of just quietly sending it away.

But that this un-sourced lie was so easy for Time's reporters to believe and that they so quickly included the lie in their report without bothering to check it – that really shows the anti-Israeli bias at the heart of the media.