WESTERN MEDIA MISREPORTS TEL AVIV TERRORIST ATTACK:

Western media on 8 June 2016, continued to distort their coverage of the shooting attack in Tel Aviv in which four Israelis were killed. The Russia Today news website was quick to publish a misleading headline that the terrorists who carried out the attack were "ultra-Orthodox Jews”. The Russian site headlined its report on the attack, in which three people were killed, with "Two ‘ultra-Orthodox Jewish’ gunmen kill three in central Tel Aviv.” While the content of the report clarified that the two terrorists responsible for the attack were dressed like haredi Jews, the headline itself remained misleading until it was later corrected. CNN, similarly, angered internet users when it published an update on its Facebook page in which it wrote that two terrorists were captured but putting the word "terrorists” in quotation marks. In this case, too, the update was edited and corrected. The incident is the latest example of an ongoing trend whereby global media outlets distort reports on terrorist assaults in Israel. With the almost daily attacks against Israelis over the past months, readers have been able to see continual trends of media outlets refusing to portray Palestinians as anything other than the victims of Israeli violence. (INN)