Eye On The Post
Eye On The Post, Inc., also known as EyeOnThePost.Org, describes itself as "a non-profit, educational corporation". It was formed in 2002, it states, in response to "The Washington Post's skewed coverage of news in the Middle East".[1]
Eye On The Post states on its website:
- The catalyst was The Washington Post's false reporting of a massacre in Jenin by the Israeli Defense Forces following the Passover bombings in April, 2002. Palestinians, aided by reporters looking for ... indeed hoping for ... a story of mass atrocities committed by Israel's military, fabricated a web of lies. Not only did all of these false news articles prove to have been lies, but the truth that eventually seeped out was that Israel's defense forces went out of their way to spare civilian lives at a substantial cost of an excessive loss of their own lives. The Post never effectively apologized, and it never adequately reported the humanitarian measures actually taken by the IDF to avoid excessive loss of Palestinian civilian lives.[2]
Eye On The Post examines The Washington Post's news on the Middle East daily for what it considers to be misinformation and inadequacies. Its goal is to "To serve the Public Interest by educating the public on the First Amendment, the history of journalism, the journalistic Code of Ethics and media bias" and to "move The Washington Post off of its long time anti-Israel bias in reporting on events in the Middle East"[3]. It adds, "Eye On The Post is nonpartisan, and its goal is nothing more and nothing less than truthful and fair reporting on events in the Middle East."[4]
A Google search on Eye On The Post turns up numerous statements that the the group "Exposes inaccurate, unfair, unbalanced and biased anti-Israel and Pro-Palestinian Middle East reporting by The Washington Post".[5]
Similar groups
BoycottThePost.org was a group that appeared to have similar aims and operating methods to Eye On the Post regarding the Washington Post's coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. BoycottThePost.org was described in an article for WorldNetDaily.com as "a grass-roots organization of professionals and lay people based in the Washington, D.C., area". In 2002, reported the article, BoycottThePost.org called on Post subscribers to halt their subscriptions during the week of June 10 to June 17 to "protest the paper's skewed coverage on Israel". The WorldNetDaily article adds that "pro-Palestinian groups" had mobilized for "a counteroffensive to what they see as an orchestrated effort by Jews to sway public sentiment".[6]
As of December 2009 BoycottThePost.org no longer seems to exist and its domain name is up for sale.[7]
Notes
- ↑ About Us, Eye On The Post website, accessed 14 Dec 2009
- ↑ About Us, Eye On The Post website, accessed 14 Dec 2009
- ↑ Goals, Eye On The Post website, accessed 14 Dec 2009
- ↑ Mission, Eye On The Post website, accessed 14 Dec 2009
- ↑ For example, see Open Directory Project, accessed 14 Dec 2009
- ↑ Diana Lynne, U.S. press embroiled in Middle East conflict, WorldNetDaily.com, 30 May 2002, accessed 14 Dec 2009
- ↑ See www.boycottthepost.org
