Daily Reports
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Disharmony Between Press Handling and Popular Mood Vis-à-vis Taxi Issue
AKEED, Wasfi KhushmanThe Jordanian Media Credibility Monitor (AKEED) has observed disharmony between the popular mood and local and external press coverage of the question of yellow taxi drivers. The media has highlighted the sit-ins by those drivers...
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Publishing Photos of Martyrs and Dead Persons Invasion of Privacy and Violation of Ethics of Profession
AKEED, Anwar ZiadatNewspapers and news sites followed news about the arrival of the body of martyr Mohammad Al Kasaji at Al-Bashir Hospital in Amman on Sunday, 21 May, and burying it on Monday, 22 May, after the occupation authorities had released it...
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Issue of Phosphate Workers: Intermittent and Incomprehensive Coverage
AKEED, Aya KhawaldehLocal media outlets have not presented the issue of phosphate workers in a comprehensive manner. They only published, separately, the statements issued by the workers and the response by the chairman of the board of directors to t...
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Israel Keeps Jordanian Media Busy With News About "Visit of Sheikhs"
AKEED, Wasfi KhushmanNews sites and social interactive platforms reported heavily on the visit of persons described as "Jordanian tribal sheikhs" to Israel last Wednesday and their meeting with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin at his residence in occu...
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News Sites Adopt Story of Media Person That He Was Beaten by Prime Minister"s Bodyguards
AKEED, Wasfi KhushmanElectronic news sites have adopted a story presented by a media person who works at a local TV channel, in which he said that he was beaten by the bodyguards of Prime Minister Hani Mulki while he was covering a meeting held at th...
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Misinterpretation Behind News About Lifting UAE Ban on Jordanian Vegetables
AKEED -- A newspaper was quick to publish news about lifting the UAE ban on seven types of Jordanian vegetables after misinterpreting an internal circular leaked to it. The circular had omitted Jordan"s name. The newspaper relied on an internal circu...
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Average Spending of Jordanians on Alcohol and Cigarettes JD481 Annually, Not JD4800
AKEED, Anwar ZiadatA number of local newspapers and news sites published erroneous figures about the average spending by Jordanians on alcohol and cigarettes, indicating that the annual average spending of a Jordanian family on alcohol and cigarettes...
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"Judeh Chief of Royal Court"…False Leaks
AKEED, Aya Khawaldeh News sites have again provided inaccurate information under the rubric of "leaks," sometimes quoting an "informed source." Many of them use anonymous sources in their news and reports to communicate some information, the latest i...
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Hasty Publishing Attributes Sarih Brawl to Relegation of Football Club in Town
AKEED, Husam AssalSeveral media outlets attributed the brawl and ensuing acts of violence in Sarih in the Irbid Governorate on Monday, 8 May, mistakenly to the relegation of Sarih Football Club to the First League, which proved to be untrue. The braw...
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Daoudia"s Car Revives Question of Financial Crisis at Al Dustour Newspaper
AKEED, Osama RawajfehA meeting held by the Jordan Press Association (JPA) Council with Mohammad Daoudia, chairman of the board of directors of Al Dustour newspaper, has prompted the latter to drop a deal that the newspaper had concluded with a compan...
