tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32508350.post8852791817613062573..comments2024-01-13T15:37:31.043+11:00Comments on THE BLANK PAGES OF THE AGE: AUSSIE LINK IN DISHONEST REPORTING AWARDUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32508350.post-2667520641562345112007-12-20T22:49:00.000+11:002007-12-20T22:49:00.000+11:00An entry has been placed in Wikipedia as follows:-...An entry has been placed in Wikipedia as follows:-<BR/><BR/><B>Reception and criticism of reporting on Israel</B><BR/> <BR/><I>O'Loughlin's reporting has received criticism from media commentary groups and the Australian Jewish and Lebanese communities who have accused him of unfair journalistic practices. Australian MP Michael Danby is quoted as saying "There's nothing funny about O'Loughlin's systematic bias against Israel"[1]. Bret Stephens (former editor of the Jerusalem Post) in a 2004 editorial accused O'Loughlin of anti-Israeli bias in the Mordechai Vanunu case, claiming that O'Loughlin's coverage was "an open and shut case of bias" [2].<BR/><BR/>O'Loughlin has also received criticism in the Jewish Political Studies Review[3] and the Australian-based ICJS Research[4].<BR/><BR/>In 2003 a (now-defunct) organisation called Media Studies Group (a group that monitored anti-Israeli bias in the media) published an analysis of the The Age's reporting on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, with particular reference to O'Loughlin. The authors identified 210 cases of perceived violations of various journalistic standards, and that O'Loughlin was responsible for 51% of these. [5]<BR/><BR/>On 19 December 2007, O'Loughlin was nominated for a "Dishonest Reporter" award and won an award[6] in the "Worst Moral Equivalence" category by Honest Reporting, a media monitoring group with approximately 140,000 subscribers.</I><BR/><BR/>Naturally, O'Loughlin's friends aren't happy. Someone has placed this entry at the top of the entry:-<BR/><BR/>"A Wikipedian is concerned that this section gives undue weight to one side.<BR/><BR/><I>Please see the talk page. Help improve the article by adding more information and sources on points of view that may be neglected."</I><BR/><BR/>In other words the Wikicensor is about to go snip and in doing so will do exactly what Ed does. Hide the truth on the blank pages.Wilbur Posthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08536833829819929156noreply@blogger.com